greenbirds
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Brewed a 3 gallon batch of imperial IPA on May 31. Racked it onto gelatin in secondary 3 weeks later (1.085 --> 1.018), let it sit for a week, dry hopped it (3 oz), let it sit for a week. During its 2 weeks in secondary it did nothing, was completely still. I would jostle the carboy just a bit every few days to get the dry hopped pellets to sink down.
So Monday night I put the carboy up on a table to rack it to a keg. A ton of CO2 bubbles formed at the bottom and rushed up to the top; figured they were trapped beneath the pellet hop sediment, since there is about an inch of it. I planned to let it sit overnight to settle. 3 days later, it is still bubbling like crazy, see video, esp. @ 20 sec mark:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es1eW2GVzIQ]YouTube - MOV01764[/ame]
At first I thought it must be infected, but it sat in the secondary for 2 weeks with no action. And this bubbling coincided with my moving the carboy to the table and disturbing the trub layer.
Anyone ever seen something like this?
So Monday night I put the carboy up on a table to rack it to a keg. A ton of CO2 bubbles formed at the bottom and rushed up to the top; figured they were trapped beneath the pellet hop sediment, since there is about an inch of it. I planned to let it sit overnight to settle. 3 days later, it is still bubbling like crazy, see video, esp. @ 20 sec mark:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es1eW2GVzIQ]YouTube - MOV01764[/ame]
At first I thought it must be infected, but it sat in the secondary for 2 weeks with no action. And this bubbling coincided with my moving the carboy to the table and disturbing the trub layer.
Anyone ever seen something like this?