3 weeks ago today I brewed a german hefeweizen, OG: 1.058. There was quite a bit of bubbling in the airlock for the first 3-4 days and it continued to be visibly active for the week following then stopped. Sometime during the second week it started bubbling again (is this normal?) and then stopped toward the end of the 3rd week. I opened it on Saturday (19 days in primary) to check the gravity: 1.024. It smelled ok and the stuff floating on the surface just looked like yeast or collapsed krausen to me, but there appeared to be bubbles coming up from the bottom (hard to tell as I ferment in a bucket).
I'm guessing it's still active and fermenting, I'd like my FG to be under .020 but my previous beers never started and stopped like this one is. Some friends that homebrew said that didn't sound normal, like it might be infected, but the surface muck didn't look like any infections I've seen photos of posted here.
I generally get slower fermentation times because we keep the tempture in the house between 60-65 but the outside temperature has been warmer this weekend and brought the house temp up to 70. I'm guessing that the starting and stopping might have something to do with this, I just thought I'd ask here if this is normal for a hefeweizen.
-Brian
I'm guessing it's still active and fermenting, I'd like my FG to be under .020 but my previous beers never started and stopped like this one is. Some friends that homebrew said that didn't sound normal, like it might be infected, but the surface muck didn't look like any infections I've seen photos of posted here.
I generally get slower fermentation times because we keep the tempture in the house between 60-65 but the outside temperature has been warmer this weekend and brought the house temp up to 70. I'm guessing that the starting and stopping might have something to do with this, I just thought I'd ask here if this is normal for a hefeweizen.
-Brian