Hi all,
I'm brewing my first batch, a Scottish Ale from a kit I got at a local beer store. I put the wort in the fermenting bucket last Saturday and by Sunday morning the airlock was bubbling. It bubbled about once every second until yesterday when it started to slow down. By this morning, no more bubbles in the airlock. My first rookie questions is: is this what's supposed to happen? Should it stop bubbling after 3-4 days?
I was planning on siphoning into a glass carboy for secondary fermenting, but after taking your suggestions and reading up on secondary fermenting, I guess I'll just leave it in the bucket for 3 weeks or so. How do I know when it's ready for transfer? The gravity of the wort was supposed to be 1.045, mine might have been a little lower (1.04), but close. Do I bottle based on time (3 weeks) or based on gravity, and when should I start taking gravity readings?
Thanks for the tips,
John
I'm brewing my first batch, a Scottish Ale from a kit I got at a local beer store. I put the wort in the fermenting bucket last Saturday and by Sunday morning the airlock was bubbling. It bubbled about once every second until yesterday when it started to slow down. By this morning, no more bubbles in the airlock. My first rookie questions is: is this what's supposed to happen? Should it stop bubbling after 3-4 days?
I was planning on siphoning into a glass carboy for secondary fermenting, but after taking your suggestions and reading up on secondary fermenting, I guess I'll just leave it in the bucket for 3 weeks or so. How do I know when it's ready for transfer? The gravity of the wort was supposed to be 1.045, mine might have been a little lower (1.04), but close. Do I bottle based on time (3 weeks) or based on gravity, and when should I start taking gravity readings?
Thanks for the tips,
John