So I am brewing one of my first batches of beer. It is an arrogant bastard clone that started with an OG around 1.07. Due to the high gravity, I pitched two packets of Rogue Pacman from Wyeast.
I pitched the yeast on Saturday, and fermentation started immediately. It was so vigorous that I needed a blowoff tube despite having 1.5 gallons of headroom in my carboy. It fermented like that until Monday when it slowed down.
It seemed to slow to a halt by Wednesday. There are no bubbles from the yeast cake and nothing coming out of the airlock. I tried swirling the carboy to get some yeast into suspension. No effect.
Do I have a stuck fermentation or is it possible that it actually fermented already? I don't want to risk oxidation by pulling a gravity reading if I am just being anxious.
If it's possible that it is done, I would like to rack to my secondary and dryhop. Of course I would take a gravity reading to confirm.
I pitched the yeast on Saturday, and fermentation started immediately. It was so vigorous that I needed a blowoff tube despite having 1.5 gallons of headroom in my carboy. It fermented like that until Monday when it slowed down.
It seemed to slow to a halt by Wednesday. There are no bubbles from the yeast cake and nothing coming out of the airlock. I tried swirling the carboy to get some yeast into suspension. No effect.
Do I have a stuck fermentation or is it possible that it actually fermented already? I don't want to risk oxidation by pulling a gravity reading if I am just being anxious.
If it's possible that it is done, I would like to rack to my secondary and dryhop. Of course I would take a gravity reading to confirm.