OdinsBrew
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It's my first batch and I used a kit recipe. I also added 2lbs of corn sugar with the malts in the boil. And when going into the carboy I used 2 quarts of 100% apple juice along with water to make a 5 gallon batch, so I can't use the recipes' FG. After a day I attached a blow off tube. Tonight is two weeks later.
I took an original hydrometer reading of the wort and it was 7% potential. I took one tonight and it was 5.1%. The temperatures in the room where the primary has been sitting have fluctuated from 70 to maybe 63 F. Tonight, with the blow off tube, bubbles were coming up about ever 12 seconds. After taking off the stopper and blow off tube I attached an air lock. Bubbles in the air lock are coming up about every 58 seconds.
I'm hoping to bottle tomorrow.
So here's my question. If I take another hydrometer test tomorrow and also count the bubbles per minute in the air lock, only 15 hours after the one I took tonight, will I be able to tell if the fermentation is done and if I can bottle? I don't want any bottle grenades. Should I be patient or go for it?
Thanks for any tips!
p.s.
If seeing pics or reading more will help you tell me what to do, or if you just want to read even more blunderings of a newbie you can see it all on my blog for "OdinsBrew"
http://blogs.homebrewtalk.com/OdinsBrew/
I took an original hydrometer reading of the wort and it was 7% potential. I took one tonight and it was 5.1%. The temperatures in the room where the primary has been sitting have fluctuated from 70 to maybe 63 F. Tonight, with the blow off tube, bubbles were coming up about ever 12 seconds. After taking off the stopper and blow off tube I attached an air lock. Bubbles in the air lock are coming up about every 58 seconds.
I'm hoping to bottle tomorrow.
So here's my question. If I take another hydrometer test tomorrow and also count the bubbles per minute in the air lock, only 15 hours after the one I took tonight, will I be able to tell if the fermentation is done and if I can bottle? I don't want any bottle grenades. Should I be patient or go for it?
Thanks for any tips!
p.s.
If seeing pics or reading more will help you tell me what to do, or if you just want to read even more blunderings of a newbie you can see it all on my blog for "OdinsBrew"
http://blogs.homebrewtalk.com/OdinsBrew/