syd138
Well-Known Member
I've had it in the secondary for a week. Would it hurt if I kept in in there for a couple months?
The more headspace the more breathing because it's mainly the gas above the liquid that is changing it's density with temperature. This can cause suck-back of liquid in the airlock.You are right on.. I have had some pretty big swings in temperature in my apartment lately.. It was about 60 in there yesterday.. and a lot of the vodka was sucking back into the carboy.
I think that in the future just to be on the safe side, when I do a Belgian again, Im going to buy a 5 gallon carboy.
For now I'll wait and see if this stuff spreads.. if I get a white layer all the way across I'll know its and infection.. if not, I'll bottle it in a couple weeks.
The spots are smaller than that.. maybe an 1/8 of an inch, but they weren't there before. I didn't dry hop it.. actually I've never heard of dry hopping a Dubbel or Tripel
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