I've awoken a sleeping beast - delayed fermentation?

[McKraut]

So my girlfriend's boddington's pub ale clone from ahs has been in primary for 29 days and I was preparing it for bottling tonight finally, and a while after moving it to the counter in the kitchen, I caught something out of the corner of my eye... bubbling. I timed it and it's about one per minute exactly. I thought it would be at fg by now.. I will admit that we've been lazy and didn't take many readings during fermenting... what are your thoughts? Bottle? Or transfer to secondary? Or even leave it in primary a bit longer? I just didn't want to bottle and have things exploding on us in a couple weeks...

I guess in the meantime I will go take a gravity reading and see where it's at all scientific like.

 

[passedpawn]

Bottle. Either the agitation, change in temp, or both is causing some of the carbonation to come out of solution. No worries.

It's still a good idea to get all science-like and break out the hydrometer. If the gravity is approximately 25% of the OG, you're golden.

 

[jar1087]

Bottle. Either the agitation, change in temp, or both is causing some of the carbonation to come out of solution. No worries.

It's still a good idea to get all science-like and break out the hydrometer. If the gravity is approximately 25% of the OG, you're golden.

+1

You probably shook some CO2 out of solution by moving the carboy and if the temperature in your kitchen is higher than where you were storing the yeast, CO2 will continue to slowly come out of solution.

 

[Bensiff]

Run and panic, tear your hair out, its an infection turning the alcohol into a highly toxic compound of instant death . No, you're fine flying spaghetti monster dude.

 

[McKraut]

went ahead and bottled it later that same night... took a reading and it was at 1.013 or 1.014 correcting for temp. the sheet said that it should be more like 1.011 for FG... is this normal? it's probably worth mentioning also that we added that abv boost option... so i don't know if/how that affects what the target FG should be...

at any rate, the beer smells nice and even looks pretty good, considering we didn't use a secondary and it was in primary for almost a month, at temps much higher than is recommended. tasted a bit and i thought it's definitely got some potential with some bottle conditioning. hopefully i don't have any exploding bottles in the meantime.

i appreciate the feedback and advice!

 

[passedpawn]

Good work. I'm sure it will be great. If you continue with this hobby, at some point you'll want to get your temps under control - it's the best way to improve your beer.

Cheers oh flying spaghetti monster