Active Fermentation almost two weeks in...

[kapbrew13]

Am I drunk already. So confused.
- infections are blown way out of proportion
- use your process, but numbers don't lie. So take numbers if looking for the real answer
- tiny bubbles why do you cause so much drama? Home brewing, we can 100% replicate the same conditions every brew unless you have $ to toss at it. So there was a difference some where in this batch.

About right?

 

[AnOldUR]

Guy lives in the same house for 20 years. Every morning he walks out the door with a cup of coffee, crosses the street and grabs his paper from the box. Gets to know the traffic pattern pretty well. Rather than spend his stroll looking up and down the road, he takes to enjoy his surroundings, watching the squirrels jump from tree to tree, seeing all the signs of the seasons. Nothin’ happening that time of the morning and he can hear if the traffic is unusually heavy even though the sound is sometimes drown by the songs of the birds. A quick glance up and down just as he approaches the road is all it takes. Might have to stop short, but worse case, he spills his coffee. No one every died from a little spilled coffee and there’s plenty more in the pot.

 

[kapbrew13]

Guy lives in the same house for 20 years. Every morning he walks out the door with a cup of coffee, crosses the street and grabs his paper from the box. Gets to know the traffic pattern pretty well. Rather than spend his stroll looking up and down the road, he takes to enjoy his surroundings, watching the squirrels jump from tree to tree, seeing all the signs of the seasons. Nothin’ happening that time of the morning and he can hear if the traffic is unusually heavy even though the sound is sometimes drown by the songs of the birds. A quick glance up and down just as he approaches the road is all it takes. Might have to stop short, but worse case, he spills his coffee. No one every died from a little spilled coffee and there’s plenty more in the pot.

I know. I hate it when the wife uses up the toilet paper and closes the lid on the toilet. I have a morning routine and little changes screw it all up.

 

[Tkelly32]

That didn't even make sense.

perhaps Bob, you are just not on my level of comprehension. I have a comprehension-ometer though so we can measure it. cheers.

 

[RM-MN]

perhaps Bob, you are just not on my level of comprehension. I have a comprehension-ometer though so we can measure it. cheers.

Do you have to open the fermenter to use it?

 

[Tkelly32]

Do you have to open the fermenter to use it?

Surprisingly no, I just have to open the cranium a bit and allow the elixir of free-thought to enter... then, the patient shall be open to such things as wild yeast and 'new' ways of brewing beer. o-ouch. bing-zip

 

[Bob]

perhaps Bob, you are just not on my level of comprehension. I have a comprehension-ometer though so we can measure it. cheers.

Right.

It didn't make sense because I couldn't actually process your hubris until I read it the fourth time. Then it hit me: You're doing it again. You're dismissing generations of brewers who have gone before with a flippant wave of your amateur, inexperienced child-brain. Once again you arrogantly and petulantly refuse to follow basic brewing techniques because once, once, you took a reading and it was where you expected it to be. So you decided every brew you execute was always and forever going to do exactly the same thing, and discarded hundreds of years of solid brewery practice because for some reason unknown to the rest of us benighted heathens when YOU reinvent the wheel, you're right.

But no, I'm not on your level of comprehension. If that's your level of comprehension, I don't want to be on it. I'll stay down here where live the people possessed of sufficient emotional development to listen to their predecessors.

 

[CannibalAJ]

The OP must be trained in the operation of a back hoe or track shovel 'cause he seems awfully good at digging a really big hole!

I have less experience than most, so my weighing in at this point is for my own amusement/ego, but Bob is right about the process. He *might* be a little harsh, but then again the OP keeps egging him on.

At least this thread amused me while drinking coffee and going through the morning emails at work.

 

[BoShimTang]

I'd have to say that I am in the same camp as Steve and Dotmo. For me, brewing my own beer is fun. If I were brewing commercial size batches, I would most definitely take hydrometer readings on a regular basis; however, for a five gallon batch, I am not so concerned.

I am new to this forum but I have been brewing at home since 1996. This past 12 months I have brewed 35 5 gallon batches. For all of these, I take an OG reading on brew day and an FG reading on bottling day. I have not had any problems with this technique.

 

[Hang Glider]

BoShimTang - your methods are fine - The OP was using airlock bubbles to measure and wondering why two batches of the same thing were behaving differently.
Only your hydrometer can tell you the status of your beer if you really want to know the answer.

Otherwise, just like you, many of us sit back and chill out for three-four weeks.

 

[MikeMMM]

Great thread minus the bickering. I'm fermenting a Belgium Golden Strong Ale now that still has an active airlock 15 days in. until now I thought the hydrometer was for of, fg and if you don't have a good seal on your fermentation bucket to guage fermentation.

 

[MikeMMM]

Great thread minus the bickering. I'm fermenting a Belgium Golden Strong Ale now that still has an active airlock 15 days in. until now I thought the hydrometer was for of, fg and if you don't have a good seal on your fermentation bucket to guage fermentation.

I didn't know about off gassing. getting the beer thief now to check! I thought airlock activity only meant active fermentation. Thanks.