Need Help

[weirrp]

I'm new to home brewing, and need some help. I am brewing a blueberry wheat. My beer has been in my primary for ten days, and is still slowly fermenting. I checked my hydrometer 3 days in a row. The first 2 days there was no change, today it dropped a bit. Can I safely transfer to my secondary?

 

[BierMuncher]

I'm new to home brewing, and need some help. I am brewing a blueberry wheat. My beer has been in my primary for ten days, and is still slowly fermenting. I checked my hydrometer 3 days in a row. The first 2 days there was no change, today it dropped a bit. Can I safely transfer to my secondary?

You need to wait until that hydrometer reading stops changing completely...then add three days.

Don't rely on the "bubbler".

You can transfer to your secondary sooner, but you'll only be trtansferring beer that is still, albiet slowly, fermenting.

Also, if it's a wheat beer, a secondary is not really necessary. Secondaries are used to help clear you beer and you want a wheat to retain some "haze".

I'd say, leave it in your primary for a full 3-4 more weeks and then bottle/keg.

 

[bradsul]

What was your OG and what is your current SG? If it's within the range called for by the recipe/kit you should be OK to rack.

Really you want to wait until the hydrometer has stopped changing altogether. Patience is the key, the yeast will take as long as they take, there's nothing you can do to make them work faster.

 

[LouT]

Ditto to the previous two posts --- just relax, hurrying it to secondary isn't going to make the beer ready to drink any sooner. Quite often I find that beers can take a few weeks to finish fermentation, even when the OG isn't high and even when the temps are good and plenty of healthy yeast have been pitched. This is a waiting game, just brew more batches and you won't get so overeager once the pipeline is good and full!
(might need a few more fermenting buckets, but heck, they're cheap!)