Spacepuppy
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Hey for anyone out there looking at all the stuck fermentation threads like I have been. I put together my first AG 4 days ago a Dry Stout and I was getting a lot of air lock activity within 24 hrs (man it was going nuts) but waking up this morning (day 4) there was ZERO activity. I then started researching stuck fermentation threads and after reading many many posts on many threads I decided to take a sg reading. My starting gravity was 1.050 and I am expecting a FG around 1.010, the hydrometer read 1.020! its only been in the primary for 84 hrs!! so my fermentation is not only probably not stuck but probably almost completed. I put the top back on the plastic pail fermenter and gave the whole thing a good shake just in case (probably shouldnt have done that) and replaced the air lock, the pressure from me shaking up the beer caused some beer and foam to be forced out of the seal around the entire top of the fermenter. I am betting what I thought was stuck fermentation is actually a leaky pail seal so dont freak out (as I did) RDWHAHB.