First beer, 1.085 to 1.047 in 5 days. Not very good is it...

bottlebomber · May 12, 2011

I don't know what normal is, but I have heard of people using this yeast (wlp007) and it coming down into the teens in three days. Here I am the better part of a week in and its only half fermented. Is this normal? It was a big beer to start with, but I chose what I thought was an agressive yeast and made a 2 liter starter on a stir plate. Somebody please tell me they have had this happen and it finished after another week. The fermentation is still coming right along but is definitely slowing down.

strat_thru_marshall · May 12, 2011

leave it for at least two weeks.

just walk away.

yeast work on their own time, it'll be fine...just give it time

cootball · May 12, 2011

forget about it for a couple weeks, should be golden

MalFet · May 12, 2011

Your beer is a surly teenager. It wants to be left alone. Forty points drop in 5 days is exceedingly normal, so no need to second guess it.

KCBrewer · May 12, 2011

Give it time. If it's still actively fermenting then this reading means nothing as to where it will finish.

Revvy · May 12, 2011

There's nothing wrong with a big beer taking a few weeks to come down. Yeast can't read, so instructions really mean nothing to them. They have their own timeframe and it's usually different than ours. There's nothing wrong, except you're impatient.