shattstar03
Well-Known Member
Hi guys and gals,
My red ale has been sitting in my secondary fermentor for about two weeks, last week I decided to throw some centennial hop pellets in my secondary. The first week, there was hardly any activity, the hops actually settled at the bottom of the fermentor.
Last night (a week later) I checked my fermentor and I saw literally all the hops pushed up to the nose of the carboy, fluid was already entering my airlock (it looked like a volcano getting ready to explode). So I removed the airlock and replaced it with the blow-off tube. It's been about a day and there has been no sign of this thing calming down, there has been a lot of activity, this thing is actually trying to push itself into my pan for the longest time. One possible culprit to my problem is that I have very little headroom in my secondary, I figured the main part of the fermentation was over.
This brew has been fermenting for 4 weeks already, I'm extremely surprised that there is this much activity going on this late in the process. I was going to begin bottling later this week but I'm unsure on what to do at this point.
So my questions are:
Should I be concerned with this kind of activity? What course of action should I take? Should I let the brew settle itself out, then bottle? Should I remove some of the hops?
Thanks a lot!
My red ale has been sitting in my secondary fermentor for about two weeks, last week I decided to throw some centennial hop pellets in my secondary. The first week, there was hardly any activity, the hops actually settled at the bottom of the fermentor.
Last night (a week later) I checked my fermentor and I saw literally all the hops pushed up to the nose of the carboy, fluid was already entering my airlock (it looked like a volcano getting ready to explode). So I removed the airlock and replaced it with the blow-off tube. It's been about a day and there has been no sign of this thing calming down, there has been a lot of activity, this thing is actually trying to push itself into my pan for the longest time. One possible culprit to my problem is that I have very little headroom in my secondary, I figured the main part of the fermentation was over.
This brew has been fermenting for 4 weeks already, I'm extremely surprised that there is this much activity going on this late in the process. I was going to begin bottling later this week but I'm unsure on what to do at this point.
So my questions are:
Should I be concerned with this kind of activity? What course of action should I take? Should I let the brew settle itself out, then bottle? Should I remove some of the hops?
Thanks a lot!