So I bottled a bitter 8 days ago and have just noticed what seems to be a krausen in the only growler I filled that day. In the small air pocket between the beer and the lid is a foamy layer whose appearance I can explain in no other way, since the growler wasn't agitated at all.
The bitter recipe calls for OG 1.040, FG 1.009. My batch came in a bit high with an OG of 1.050, FG 1.019 after 3 full weeks in the fermenter. The discrepancy in gravity is likely because I brewed in a bag and squeezed the **** out of the bag to get all the wort out of it -- something I have not done before or since. I bottled because the +.010 gravity points seemed permanent -- unfermentable sugars or some such. Bad assumption?
I guess my real question is whether the beer in my growler could be fermenting (which means it is a krausen) and what that would mean for the beer within it. Any thoughts or experience with this?
The bitter recipe calls for OG 1.040, FG 1.009. My batch came in a bit high with an OG of 1.050, FG 1.019 after 3 full weeks in the fermenter. The discrepancy in gravity is likely because I brewed in a bag and squeezed the **** out of the bag to get all the wort out of it -- something I have not done before or since. I bottled because the +.010 gravity points seemed permanent -- unfermentable sugars or some such. Bad assumption?
I guess my real question is whether the beer in my growler could be fermenting (which means it is a krausen) and what that would mean for the beer within it. Any thoughts or experience with this?
