mpenn35
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Ok, so I've got my second and third brews in primaries now going on two weeks. The first one is a stout, and I've had consistent gravity readings very close to what final gravity should be on it. With the other beer, however, I haven't been able to get a gravity reading on it. It's only a two and a half gallon batch and I'm fermenting it in a five gallon glass carboy (something I won't do again.) I didn't think about it at the time that I put it in, but my turkey baster I use for taking samples isn't anywhere near long enough to take a sample of it. I can't get a sample of it without pouring some of it out, and I certainly don't want to disturb it like that.
I had a decent fermentation in it, and the airlock stopped getting bubbles up in it after the first five or six days. Anyway, I moved it from a closet to the kitchen today so it could settle after moving it before bottling it tomorrow in case I stirred anything up. Once I moved it (it was a short distance and there was little to no splashing), I started getting bubbles up through the airlock again, every few seconds. It's been about two hours and it's slowed considerably.
Is this still ok to bottle? My stout did the same thing, hadn't bubbled in a week, and once I moved it five feet to the counter top, it started bubbling a little too, but with the consistent gravity readings, I'm not as concerned about this one.
Thanks!
I had a decent fermentation in it, and the airlock stopped getting bubbles up in it after the first five or six days. Anyway, I moved it from a closet to the kitchen today so it could settle after moving it before bottling it tomorrow in case I stirred anything up. Once I moved it (it was a short distance and there was little to no splashing), I started getting bubbles up through the airlock again, every few seconds. It's been about two hours and it's slowed considerably.
Is this still ok to bottle? My stout did the same thing, hadn't bubbled in a week, and once I moved it five feet to the counter top, it started bubbling a little too, but with the consistent gravity readings, I'm not as concerned about this one.
Thanks!