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So, my belgian trippel has been in the primary for two weeks (started at .078, and now at .020). It hasn't moved south of .020 in the last two days, so it looks like fermentation is complete. But, there's still alot of krausen at the top. My question is should I rack to my secondary now? Thanks for the help folks!:mug:
 
I had a wheat beer that held a kreusen the entire time, all the way down to 1.010. Sounds like you've taken gravity readings though, so you're good to go.
 
Sometimes the krausen never falls back into the beer. I've found that another good way to tell if the beer is done fermenting is to swirl the fermenter a bit to drop the krausen back in. If more forms in a few hours, it's not done fermenting yet. If it doesn't reappear, wait a day or two then take a hydrometer reading.
 
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