jonathanderick
Member
Hey y'all. It's been two weeks and two days since I transferred my beer into the fermenter. There hasn't been much activity in the airlock, so I figured that I ought to bottle this baby up already (I know this shouldn't be the sole indicator that the beer is done fermenting, but it's been two weeks and I'm getting impatient). Monday shall be the day!
I decided that I should move my fermenter in advance from my closet floor to the kitchen counter where I'll be bottling. Hopefully, any sediment that gets stirred up will settle by bottling time in a couple of hours. I then recalled reading some forum posts and brew books saying that one should avoid sloshing the wort around when you are transferring the goods from the fermenter to the bottling bucket. Carrying my 50-pound plastic carboy fermenter with one hand, 20 feet to my kitchen and up the counter would have sloshed the wort around, no doubt. Solution?
http://flic.kr/p/9jTPSs
After a cool cruise through the house, I finally got it to the counter. And I noticed some unusual pale-colored streak at the bottom of the carboy. Here's a shot:
http://flic.kr/p/9jQKua
It goes all the way around the bottom of the sediment settled at the floor of the carboy. Should I be worried? The beer smells perfectly fine through the airlock. Thanks for help!
I decided that I should move my fermenter in advance from my closet floor to the kitchen counter where I'll be bottling. Hopefully, any sediment that gets stirred up will settle by bottling time in a couple of hours. I then recalled reading some forum posts and brew books saying that one should avoid sloshing the wort around when you are transferring the goods from the fermenter to the bottling bucket. Carrying my 50-pound plastic carboy fermenter with one hand, 20 feet to my kitchen and up the counter would have sloshed the wort around, no doubt. Solution?
http://flic.kr/p/9jTPSs
After a cool cruise through the house, I finally got it to the counter. And I noticed some unusual pale-colored streak at the bottom of the carboy. Here's a shot:
http://flic.kr/p/9jQKua
It goes all the way around the bottom of the sediment settled at the floor of the carboy. Should I be worried? The beer smells perfectly fine through the airlock. Thanks for help!