Hello all. Yesterday I brewed my first batch following the instructions at howtobrew.com. It's an APA made with cluster and cascade. I pitched the yeast at about 3:00pm yesterday and by 6:00pm I was seeing activity. By 8:00pm it was bubble every 2-3 seconds and by 10:00pm I was seeing a bubble every 1 to 1.5 seconds.
I woke up this morning and there was 0 activity and as far as I've been able to tell to day, I haven't seen a single bit of activity. My OG was 1.056 (.005 off the mark but that's probably because my post boil batch size was just a bit small). The gravity reading I took about an hour ago was 1.028, about .013 off of the top end of an APA.
Is there anything I should be looking out for or could it have just slowed down enough that I don't have the patience to wait 5+ minutes to see a bubble appear?
I'm also worried about racking to the secondary if fermentation finished so fast. This is only a 2.5 gallon batch in a 5 gallon bucket and I don't have the CO2 to rid the secondary of the O2 in the headspace.
Should I just be patient and wait? And if it is nearly done, what do I do about racking so small a batch to a secondary?
I woke up this morning and there was 0 activity and as far as I've been able to tell to day, I haven't seen a single bit of activity. My OG was 1.056 (.005 off the mark but that's probably because my post boil batch size was just a bit small). The gravity reading I took about an hour ago was 1.028, about .013 off of the top end of an APA.
Is there anything I should be looking out for or could it have just slowed down enough that I don't have the patience to wait 5+ minutes to see a bubble appear?
I'm also worried about racking to the secondary if fermentation finished so fast. This is only a 2.5 gallon batch in a 5 gallon bucket and I don't have the CO2 to rid the secondary of the O2 in the headspace.
Should I just be patient and wait? And if it is nearly done, what do I do about racking so small a batch to a secondary?