Hello
I made a beer two weeks ago with a plan to bottle yesterday (Sunday).
BUT on Saturday the temperature of the room the FV was in shot up and fermentation started again. I'm not sure if things have died down at all now but there's still a head on the beer (a second krausen?) and I could see bubbles emerging last night.
Shall I go ahead and bottle or would this be creating problems? Our flat will be empty for a month from Saturday so I wanted these to be bottled and safe by then. It'll probably experience the same temps as the FV is facing (28 C, I think) which is why I haven't done much other than put the FV in water.
Any advice would be a godsend!
Windsor yeast in a 1.035 brew. Should take a gravity now but wanted to get this out.
Cheers
David
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Fermenting. Again!
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Re: Fermenting. Again!
Don't bottle until its done is my advice 
If you're in a rush give it a rousing to speed up this second fermentation and of course take readings with a hydrometer
If you're in a rush give it a rousing to speed up this second fermentation and of course take readings with a hydrometer
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Re: Fermenting. Again!
Windsor's a bit of a bugger, and a bit lazy. Really you wanted to check the gravity when fermentation first stopped, so you could tell how far it had got, and you might have seen this coming.
As for now, are you getting bubbles from the airlock, or just in the beer? If it's just in the beer it might be dissolved CO2 from fermentation coming back out.
Check the gravity now. If it's low and the fermentation has stopped then I'd just bottle it in a couple of days.
As for now, are you getting bubbles from the airlock, or just in the beer? If it's just in the beer it might be dissolved CO2 from fermentation coming back out.
Check the gravity now. If it's low and the fermentation has stopped then I'd just bottle it in a couple of days.
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Re: Fermenting. Again!
Managed to bottle this on Tuesday. This is the first chance I've had to update this thread, which perhaps accounts for my slack attention to detail. Gt an OG of 1.010. I crash cooled it after realising I could fit the FV in my beer fridge. That stared Tuesday lunchtime but the bubbleson the surface had stopped by Monday night.
No bubbles ever came through the airlock, Jocky. I'd fashioned some 5l water bottles and I don't think the lids were air tight.
This was actually a query but I've got the brewday thread going as 'Father's Day Ales', if you want more info.
Thanks for the input.
Cheers
David
No bubbles ever came through the airlock, Jocky. I'd fashioned some 5l water bottles and I don't think the lids were air tight.
This was actually a query but I've got the brewday thread going as 'Father's Day Ales', if you want more info.
Thanks for the input.
Cheers
David
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