Honey in secondary

floydmeddler · Post by **floydmeddler** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:42 pm

Brewed an elderflower ale over a week ago and added 650g of honey when I racked it into secondary on Saturday. Should there be much visible fermentation activity? No bubbles or krausen whatsoever. Airlock also idle.

Was expecting something from 650g of honey in a 23L batch.

Cheers all.

dave-o · Post by **dave-o** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:39 am

I would have expected some pretty vigorous action.

Maybe whack some dextrose in there to get things started.

trucker5774 · Post by **trucker5774** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:48 am

I have just done one like this..................it should be showing action (temp around 20C?) It would have been better to add the honey a little earlier. I go for about 4 days while ther is still some action going on

floydmeddler · Post by **floydmeddler** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:54 pm

Sh*it. Nothing yet. Heard that putting it into secondary retains more flavour. It should pick up over the next week or two surely?

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