How long can I leave a kit

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How long can I leave a kit

Post by Garth » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:01 pm

Can anybody help?

I set a Fixby away nine days ago and on Daab's advice left it for a straight 10 days in the primary bin. This has bore fruit as it has fermented right out and has dropped to 1.010 which is the lowest I have ever been able to get an all malter down to especially Brupaks. (and give a nice respectable 5.3% ish) ...great. I used to drop it after a couple of days but this was obviously stalling the brew, so progress made there.

So I'm away for two weeks soon and wondering, should I transfer the brew to my sealed airlocked fermenter and bottle immediatley on my return, or put it in the airlocked bin and then bottle in a few days time before I go. There are people here but not ones who I would want to hassle with asking them to bottle 35+ bottles of grog, or that they would even agree to do it., or they would even have a clue what to do, etc, etc, etc.

What should I do?

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Post by Garth » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:13 pm

so Daab, would you recommend when I finally bottle it (about 20 days time) should I slightly overprime with the spraymalt, as quite a bit of yeast will have dropped out? although I'm not that bothered about really fizzy ale


....1.010....I just can't believe it......

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Post by Garth » Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:12 pm

cheers Daab

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