to wait or not to wait

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eaglesnestbrewing
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to wait or not to wait

Post by eaglesnestbrewing » Wed Nov 02, 2016 11:58 am

So I have a brown ale in secondary right now, it was in primary for a week and been in secondary for a week so far, ive taken two sunsequent hydrometet tests and they have read the same, around 1.009, og was 1.048 and there is absolutely no bubbling in the air lock whatsoever. Should I bottle friday or saturday or should i wait the full other week before bottling?
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East coast IPA bottled
Silly Yak gf bottled
Traditional winter warmer in secondary
Trying to figure out all grain next!!

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Re: to wait or not to wait

Post by jason.loxton » Wed Nov 02, 2016 12:04 pm

No harm in waiting. No real harm in bottling. If you've got stable gravity, your fermentation is done. More time in the secondary will allow the particulate more time to settle out and the yeast to clean up some precursors, but a two week schedule is what commercial breweries do. If your fermentation was good, you're fine to bottle (and you're going to have a two week conditioning interval in the bottle as it carbs anyway).

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Re: to wait or not to wait

Post by eaglesnestbrewing » Wed Nov 02, 2016 1:15 pm

Okay thank you for the info, i think ill wait to bottle another week to lets the particles settle oit a bit
East coast IPA bottled
Silly Yak gf bottled
Traditional winter warmer in secondary
Trying to figure out all grain next!!

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