Celeritas Prime
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About a day and a half into fermentation we noticed that the fermenter was leaking from the spout. Thus we had no choice but to transfer the wort into a different fermenter since fixing the existing one would have required emptying the fermenter anyway.
At the time of the transfer, the airlock was going nuts with bubbling, leading me to believe we were at high krausen. There was also a good inch and a half of foam on top of the wort for good measure. Now, 24 hours later, there's very little bubbling activity going on at all.
My instinct is to re-pitch with Safale-05 but there's another voice in me that says to just relax and let it recover, but did the re-rack mid-fermentation cause a shock to the yeast it needs help to recover from? Should I re-pitch or should I just chill out and let it ferment?
At the time of the transfer, the airlock was going nuts with bubbling, leading me to believe we were at high krausen. There was also a good inch and a half of foam on top of the wort for good measure. Now, 24 hours later, there's very little bubbling activity going on at all.
My instinct is to re-pitch with Safale-05 but there's another voice in me that says to just relax and let it recover, but did the re-rack mid-fermentation cause a shock to the yeast it needs help to recover from? Should I re-pitch or should I just chill out and let it ferment?