sjacobso76
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So a bit of an odd one here: I recently brewed Morebeer's Pliny the Elder clone, as the extract version. It ended up fermenting for a long time because I kept putting it off. It was about a month in the primary, then I dry hopped and racked to a secondary where it lived for two weeks. I used fermentation temp control for the first time as I just got it set up. I fermented the first 5 days at 64 degrees and then raised it up to 68 degrees.
Today I took it out of the temp control to get it ready to bottle. I got delayed in getting it into the bottle, and the temp raised up to about 80 degrees (it's really hot here!). Now there's a bunch of bubbles coming off of the fermenter! I dropped my hydro into the carboy and it's reading 1.012, so it should be done fermenting. Is this possibly just CO2 coming out of solution, or is fermentation taking place? I just don't want to ruin this great beer! Should I go ahead and prime and get it into the bottles, or should I give it some time at this high temp to finish out? Am I going to get a bunch of nasty flavors with it that high of a temp? I can't imagine it can do much since there can't be very much in the way of fermentables, but I'm not sure what to do. Help!
Sam
Today I took it out of the temp control to get it ready to bottle. I got delayed in getting it into the bottle, and the temp raised up to about 80 degrees (it's really hot here!). Now there's a bunch of bubbles coming off of the fermenter! I dropped my hydro into the carboy and it's reading 1.012, so it should be done fermenting. Is this possibly just CO2 coming out of solution, or is fermentation taking place? I just don't want to ruin this great beer! Should I go ahead and prime and get it into the bottles, or should I give it some time at this high temp to finish out? Am I going to get a bunch of nasty flavors with it that high of a temp? I can't imagine it can do much since there can't be very much in the way of fermentables, but I'm not sure what to do. Help!
Sam