I brewed my first beer exactly 13 days ago, and today I took my first gravity reading. I've reached precisely my expected final gravity, but I still have a small amount of krausen floating on the surface of my beer. Also, when I tasted it, the beer had a strong acetaldehyde flavor. Everything looks good, it smells like beer; but my recipe called for two weeks fermentation, and it's clearly not completed. As I said, this is my first beer. Can someone tell me why it is fermenting so slowly and if it's a problem? Is there anything I should do?
It's a brown ale, by the way (all grain). I never transferred it from the primary fermenter and don't plan to.
It's a brown ale, by the way (all grain). I never transferred it from the primary fermenter and don't plan to.
