Hi everyone. I’m Tom and I’m new.
I bought a 7 gal food grade bucket with a lid, and bubblerand. A 1 gal bottle of a raspberry wine concentrate. I cleaned it out with a non bleach cleaner. Mixed it up to make 5 gal batch. I used tap water but I have a filter attached. Pitched a packet of ec 118 yeast. I even bought a stirrer that plugs on a drill. So everything was oxygenated, and incorporated.
I pop the lid on and put in the bubbler.
It’s been a week now, and I haven’t seen a bubble out of this thing.
Now when I open the top? I see bubbles. I smell fermentation. I see motion.
I haven’t graduated to taking specific gravity measurements yet. So I don’t really know if I’m producing alcohol.
What’s wrong? Too much room for air to build up? It’s a big bucket. Is it leaking?
If I push on the top. The bubbler spits. So there is definitely something going on in there.
I bought a 7 gal food grade bucket with a lid, and bubblerand. A 1 gal bottle of a raspberry wine concentrate. I cleaned it out with a non bleach cleaner. Mixed it up to make 5 gal batch. I used tap water but I have a filter attached. Pitched a packet of ec 118 yeast. I even bought a stirrer that plugs on a drill. So everything was oxygenated, and incorporated.
I pop the lid on and put in the bubbler.
It’s been a week now, and I haven’t seen a bubble out of this thing.
Now when I open the top? I see bubbles. I smell fermentation. I see motion.
I haven’t graduated to taking specific gravity measurements yet. So I don’t really know if I’m producing alcohol.
What’s wrong? Too much room for air to build up? It’s a big bucket. Is it leaking?
If I push on the top. The bubbler spits. So there is definitely something going on in there.