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to wait or not to wait

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 11:58 am
by eaglesnestbrewing
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?
Cheers. :cheers2:

Re: to wait or not to wait

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 12:04 pm
by jason.loxton
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).

Re: to wait or not to wait

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2016 1:15 pm
by eaglesnestbrewing
Okay thank you for the info, i think ill wait to bottle another week to lets the particles settle oit a bit