NewBrewer question

[JoeWink13]

Hey all,
New to brewing and the community. I searched for a little for a previous post but thought I may just ask my question.

I am brewing an amber ale and currently have it in my second stage fermenter, which is a glass carboy. All of the water in my airlock has been pushed to one side. Photo below. But I am wondering if I should see more bubbles? Thanks for any help!

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[CanAusBrewer]

If you're onto a secondary I am assuming it has already fermented in primary for a few days? You're fine, you shouldn't expect to see many bubbles in secondary as fermentation has mostly slowed down.

 

[flars]

Bubbles, at regular intervals, in an air lock either mean fermentation is continuing and new CO2 is being produced, or CO2 is coming out of solution after the fermentation is complete. The liquid in the air lock being to one side or the other is more likely due to a pressure change in the carboy. This can be cause by temperature change or barometric pressure change.

 

[JoeWink13]

Okay cool. Yes it was in the primary for a week before I changed. It's my first time so I have pretty much been going off of the instructions. The more I have been reading, I feel u may use a little bit less priming sugar then the instructions say.

 

[flars]

The instructions may say to use 5 ounces of priming sugar, and include a five ounce pack of priming sugar. The pack may be more than five ounces. It is cheaper to make sure there is at least five ounces to avoid buying the equipment to exactly measure and package five ounces.
This is a pretty good calculator to use. I usually carbonate to about 2.4 volumes for a fizzy American beer. 2.1 or 2.2 for a stout. 2.6 to 2.8 for a hefeweizen.
http://www.northernbrewer.com/priming-sugar-calculator/

 

[JoeWink13]

Okay cool. Yeah when I plugged in the current readings I would be using less then 5. Thank you