I have brewed 5 or 6 batches of beer and have NEVER had to wait this long for the beer to finish fermenting. It has been over 2 months and there are still bubbles! I tasted it tonight and it tastes ok. Has anyone else experienced such a long fermentation time? Should I bottle? Help!!!
2006-11-19 13:21:39 · 4 answers · asked by Gerry S 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Sounds like you might just be fermenting at a lower temperature than you have in the past. There's a possibility that you might not have aerated as much prior to pitching your yeast, or that your yeast may have been a little old...this could result in a smaller amount of yeast cells working on the sugars. There's a few variables that could affect it. How is it clarifying? You could rack it again...I get a little worried about too many rackings introducing an infection/oxygen/acetobacter.
Bottom line, if it tastes good, you're ok.
2006-11-20 07:23:15 · answer #1 · answered by Trid 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I easily have completed it with basically well-known and with a secondary until now. It fairly basically seems to knock down the settlement on your bottles and make the beer purifier. yet because of the fact that your brew has honey in it i might element it has a particularly long fermentation time so i might rack it over and get it off the yeast cake. It basically takes approximately 5 minutes to do and that i might think of provide you a nicer product. in case you dont have yet another fermenter Ive racked racked into my bottling bucket, clean out the well-known, and then siphoned returned into it and its worked high quality.
2016-12-10 12:08:10 · answer #2 · answered by kluesner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What was your starting gravity and your current gravity.
If you're current gravity is approx 1.020 or lower, you're probably in secondary fermentation.
Either way I would drop the gyle to a new fermenter.
Secondary fermentation can take 6-10 weeks in cold weather. I wouldn't worry too much.
I recently had a primary fermentation take 2 weeks and normally I'm at my final gravity with 4 days.
If it tastes okay, there are nornally no problems.
If your gravity is lower than 1.020 you're probably okay to bottle, but don't prime.
2006-11-19 22:38:43 · answer #3 · answered by abrockhurst2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
only thing I can think of is it might not be fermenting at the right temp. to low and you have a slow ferment. control the temps.
have you added more sugars for alcohol content? giving the yeast more sugar will keep it going.
If its just a slow bubble like one bubble a minute. go on and bottle.
2006-11-19 14:36:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋