Is it fermenting?

[rybarnes]

I'm on my second batch, my first in a 5 gallon, more legitimate kit then my first Mr. Beer batch. I noticed heavy bubbling from the airlock a day after beginning fermentation, but it has since stopped entirely. There is no foaming on the surface (krausen, right?), and I totally forgot to take an initial gravity reading. Currently it is reading 1.018 after just over a week. The kit is 'Walleye Weizen' from WindRiver Brewing Company. Quote from their site: "The kit includes: 6 lbs. Wheat malt extract, 1 oz. Tettnanger bitter hops, 1 oz. Tettnanger aroma hops, 1/2 lb. Carapils, yeast and priming sugar." (http://www.windriverbrew.com/wheatbeers.html)

I'm not sure if it fermenting still or not. If it is not, am I able to add in a second batch up ale yeast?

Thanks!

 

[Yooper]

If it's 1.018, it's just about done fermenting. No need to add more yeast! Wait another week or so, and once the gravity is stable (no longer going down over a period of a couple of days), you can bottle it. I'd check the gravity about 2 weeks from brewday, and then again three days later. If they are the same, I'd bottle it!