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Sort of a sanitization question: I have an 11-12 gallon batch of Edwort'srobuts porter in 2 6 gallon Better Bottles. I had pitched Nottingham in both jugs, which seemed to blow through the fermentation in 3 or 4 days in each of them. Yesterday I sampled for gravity in one. O.G was 1.068, and 6 days later it was 1.020. The fermentation locks had been still for a couple of days, until I sampled. I did stir the trub a bit with the thief. Since then the jug I sampled has had slow activity in the fermentation lock. The other one, which I did not sample, remains still, with no activity in the fermentation lock at all. I rocked that jug a bit, but it remains quiet. I had sanitized the thief with StarSan. I had mixed up the StarSan with RO water a few weeks ago, and it is still clear. I think I sanitized the thief well, but the recurrent activity in this jug worries me. Did I introduce an infection I need to kill off? Sneaking a sniff, they smell the same to me. Should I be agitating the other carboY?