CapnHook
Well-Known Member
I'm brewing NB's Chinook IPA. It is at 7 days in the fermenter today. I'm fermenting in a a water bath cooled by frozen water bottles, and ferm temps have been in the mid 60s all week, mostly 64 to 67, although one day it crept up to 68.
I used a blowoff tube, but never saw bubbles in the bottle of water the tube was in. I relaxed, didn't worry, and DIDN'T have a home brew, 'cause I'm all out. Today I opened the fermenter to take a gravity reading. There was a nice krausen still floating on top. The OG was 1.05; today was 1.02, so I'm thinking that since the krausen hasn't fallen and the gravity is still a bit high, there is still fermentation going on. I used a wine thief to get the sample, and there were tons of small bubbles rising in the tube - another indication, I think, of continuation of fermentation, I think.
After only a week, I hadn't planned on taking any action - I've got another 3 weeks or so before kegging (my first kegging, too), but I just wanted more experienced brewers to confirm that my opinion is correct - or to teach me if it isn't.
Thanks much!
I used a blowoff tube, but never saw bubbles in the bottle of water the tube was in. I relaxed, didn't worry, and DIDN'T have a home brew, 'cause I'm all out. Today I opened the fermenter to take a gravity reading. There was a nice krausen still floating on top. The OG was 1.05; today was 1.02, so I'm thinking that since the krausen hasn't fallen and the gravity is still a bit high, there is still fermentation going on. I used a wine thief to get the sample, and there were tons of small bubbles rising in the tube - another indication, I think, of continuation of fermentation, I think.
After only a week, I hadn't planned on taking any action - I've got another 3 weeks or so before kegging (my first kegging, too), but I just wanted more experienced brewers to confirm that my opinion is correct - or to teach me if it isn't.
Thanks much!