I'd this necessarily a bad thing?

This is (or maybe was) a peak pale ale from a kit at my local brew shop. There hasn't been much action in there for the past couple weeks and now after taking hydrometer readings, I'm getting this foam on the top and fermentation send to be now active again, according to tge bubbling action in my airlock. Any chance this is just from the star-san and no big deal? Fg is supposed to be 1.10 to 1.12. I was at 1.17 two days ago and 1.16 this morning

Well, if it's supposed to be around 1.011, and it was 1.17 2 days ado, and is a point lower, clearly you must have had a stuck fermentation, and something, probably a rise in ambient temps, have woken up the yeast to finish the job. I don't know why you'd worry about it.

Thanks rev. I worry because it's my first brew and don't really know how things should be proceeding at this point.

And I was a de decimal point off. I'm at 1.017

I agree. You might consider moving it to a room temp location (around 68F or so) to help it finish. You could swirl the carboy a bit to resuspend some yeast, looks like you have plenty of head space for that...just be careful moving that glass carboy around.

She's been at a very consistent 70 degrees. To warm?

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70 is a bit warm for the first few days, but after fermentation is complete it's a great conditioning temperature.

I keep the light off in the basement except when I'm down there willing it to be ready to bottle

JoeShmo said:

I keep the light off in the basement except when I'm down there willing it to be ready to bottle

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Willing it to be ready to bottle? Sounds like a jedi mind trick. "You want to be bottled. You don't want to sit in this carboy any longer"...

Really? The airlock is st bubbling every 30 seconds or so....

JoeShmo said:

Really? The airlock is st bubbling every 30 seconds or so....

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Just joking about how you worded that line quoted...

Haha, "willing it to be ready for bottling" is pretty much what I do so far. It was meant as a joke, but I do honestly go down there right after work every day and stare at it like it's gonna do a cool trick or something

But anyway, that foam on the top is nothing to be concerned about?

Ahhhhhh, just re-read your post. I thought you were telling me to bottle it now, lmao. Works, this jedi mind trick does