avaserfi
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I tried to search for this, but couldn't find too much.
My beer was put in the carboy the first of December at night and started visible fermentation about 12 hours later and it seems like it is finished or close too. The krausen hasn't fallen yet, I am in no rush to bottle and I was just going to keep in in primary for a while so I haven't bothered with a gravity reading yet. I was just going to wait for the krausen to fall before taking the FG. Should I bother taking SG right now?
My other question is after fermentation is complete do I need to monitor the temperature as closely? It is in a cooler filled with water that has been kept between 62-64 degrees the entire week. I was planning on bottling the 19th if it was ready, but primarily because I will be going out of town for 6 days and didn't want anything to go wrong in my absence.
If it matters, I am brewing Coopers Brewmaster IPA with 2lbs of DME. OG was 1.056, no clue what it is supposed to be though, because the instructions were useless.
My beer was put in the carboy the first of December at night and started visible fermentation about 12 hours later and it seems like it is finished or close too. The krausen hasn't fallen yet, I am in no rush to bottle and I was just going to keep in in primary for a while so I haven't bothered with a gravity reading yet. I was just going to wait for the krausen to fall before taking the FG. Should I bother taking SG right now?
My other question is after fermentation is complete do I need to monitor the temperature as closely? It is in a cooler filled with water that has been kept between 62-64 degrees the entire week. I was planning on bottling the 19th if it was ready, but primarily because I will be going out of town for 6 days and didn't want anything to go wrong in my absence.
If it matters, I am brewing Coopers Brewmaster IPA with 2lbs of DME. OG was 1.056, no clue what it is supposed to be though, because the instructions were useless.