1 bubble every 10 seconds . . .

[Beer-Baron]

Then Bud came out with the lime juice, and that was the best thing they EVER had. Amateurs.

Blahhh. That Bud Lite Lime tastes like they filtered the bottle through a wetnap!

 

[lurker18]

Blahhh. That Bud Lite Lime tastes like they filtered the bottle through a wetnap!

Couldn't agree more. Can't wait until next summers fad beer comes out. Bets on what BMC will do to fancy up their beer next year.

 

[dracus]

Having an og reading helps a lot in these cases. Yeast will only attenuate so far. If you knew what the estimated final gravity should be you'd have a good idea on whether it was done or not.

Bubbles lie.

Waiting though is better allthough I have bottled a couple beers after only a week and drank them 10 days later. One was a hefe the other a very simple apa.

That being said. Both were much better after 3 weeks.

+1 to pipeline

 

[ajl]

The instructions for my brew kit said that leaving the primary longer than 14 days can result in off flavors from the yeast? Is that true?

 

[Revvy]

The instructions for my brew kit said that leaving the primary longer than 14 days can result in off flavors from the yeast? Is that true?

No, that's old school thinking. Thoughts about that have shifted over the last few years, now we have found that leaving the beer in primary for a month improves the flavor of beer by cleaning up the byprodicuts of fermentation...THere is about 1,000,000 threads about it, including at least 5 threads active today alone in the beginners section...look for threads about secondary, long primary, no secondary, long primary, autolysis, and you will see our answers, over and over and over again.

All my beers stay in primary for a month, been doing it for 3 years now, and have won awards for my beers doing so....

 

[nebben]

I concur with most people's posts here.

If I'm lucky, I might still see the bubbler trickle CO2 out even right before I'm about to bottle. A previous hydrometer reading reveals that fermentation isn't happening anymore and the gravity is steady. Escaping CO2 can take a while sometimes, and cannot be trusted to guess when to bottle.