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Oakwood

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How long is to long? Is longer better?

Before you all get sick thoughts let me ask what I am asking. We boiled NB's Irish Draught Ale last tuesday. Wednesday night it was going good as normal. Now here we are almost a week later and it still is clicking (moving the air lock up and down) about once or twice a minute? Is this normal? did somthing go wrong? The box says 5 weeks to be done and I am a week into it and can't even think about racking to the second yet. I want to wait about 5 days after it is done before doing that. Well that puts me into week 2 easy and then it will take 2 weeks to clear (going by the 1-2-3 method which is one week longer then the recipe says). SO all in all what is going on. The "Activator" yeast I used swelled up really nice and we pitched it direct into the carboy after we transfered it from the kettel. The temp was about 72 and we had a absolutly great 60 minute boil. The recipe called for 1lbs of honey and 1lb of DME and 1.25 of LME so I was just thinking with the combination of all the sugars and the yeast at that temp that everything is going really well,,,,

But a week later and it is still perkulating?


Help, I think my beer is going good but don't know for sure.
 
And another thing, 1-2-3 is only a guideline, every brew is different. I recently had a beer ferment for 3 weeks (granted it was a big beer).

Also, there is no need to wait 5 days after bubbling stops, take hydro reading, when there is no change for 2 consecutive days go ahead and rack.
 
TheJadedDog said:
Also, there is no need to wait 5 days after bubbling stops, take hydro reading, when there is no change for 2 consecutive days go ahead and rack.


That is what I wanted to hear. I was worried about how long it was going to take. I am brewing it for my boss so I didn't want to over shot my dead line like normal.
 
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