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Take your first FG reading at the two week mark, and then two more over the course of that week. Once the gravity levels stop moving bottle your beer. You can open your fermenter to take the reading without worry, just sanitize your equipment and you'll be fine. Stop over thinking, have fun and...

Update: The bubbles from the original photo stayed about the same for the next 10 days after my original post. I dry hopped with 2oz of cascade on this past Saturday and moved it outside for a cold crash last night where it'll stay in the garage until this weekend (it's about 34F) in Chicago. I...

I'd say add at least 1 more oz of something else. I prefer cascade hops, they give that nice "piney" aroma to your brew. Good luck!

Will do for sure. Like I said, it tasted normal at racking and smells on par at the moment, I'm hopeful it's still be fine just maybe not what I was expecting. Thanks everyone for the honest feedback, I’m new to this forum and appreciate that everyone has been helpful rather than condescending...

No, when I pulled the lid off of the primary all was fine. Something I just thought of was that when I went to use my auto siphon the first two pumps didn't get it going, rather it pushed air back into the primary. Not sure if the oxygen being pushed down into the primary could've caused this...

I am going to keep it to see where it goes, some say they've had this happen before and it's turned out just fine (on other threads at least) so I think it may be worth it to give this one a shot. Anyway, is it even worth dry hopping and then cold crashing at this point? Or would I be better off...

Just thought to run this by you guys, there were a couple of similar "bubbles" right after I initially transferred, see pic.

There is a SLIGHT chance that a tad of starsan was possibly left in the carboy but I'm usually very thorough, again always a chance. The aroma is great so I think (hopefully) that I'm going to be OK. This is just a first for me granted 7 brews isn't a large sample size.

Thank you sir. I've been searching everywhere and it seems like it may just be CO2 but who knows, fingers crossed big time.

I opened it up and nothing about the aroma is off, very hoppy, slight malt, and alcohol. I'm hoping that I just racked too soon and the bubbles are the work of the unfinished yeast. Finger crossed. Major lesson learned. I greatly appreciate everyone's input and advice.

I did rack too soon, admittedly I only left it in the primary for a week, my brother is coming in from out of town in 6 weeks and he's been wanting to taste a home brew, aside from my instincts I did rush this one. Is it going to be salvageable? No film on the carboy itself, just on the top of...

I did taste before racking and it tasted like an un carbonated IPA

Suggestions as to how to salvage it?

Hey all, I'm not a total newbie as I'm on batch 7 but I'm not well versed either. Making BB Imperial Pale Ale. I sanitized well just as I've always done and in the secondary these white spots of film with very small bubbles have popped up after 2 days, nothing fuzzy like mold though. I'm only...

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Thank you all, I'm really looking forward to this one. If I cold crash what temp should I bring it down to and for how long?

I'm making a IIPA, I should've posted that in the above.