Primary fermentation ?

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Permalink Reply by Christian on July 30, 2012 at 8:48pm

I generally wait til the Krausen has thinned and a nice yeast cake formed on the bottom, this way you're transferring minimal yeast into secondary.

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Permalink Reply by Christian on July 30, 2012 at 9:37pm

Opps, didn't read that correctly - you're not transferring to secondary. If you're using a yeast regularly, you'll get a feel for it...otherwise go with stable hydrometer readings.

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Permalink Reply by Ralph on July 30, 2012 at 8:59pm

Usually you use hydrometer readings. When the SG reading is the same over a period of a few days then fermentation has finished and you can chuck it in your keg or bottle or whatever

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Permalink Reply by Paul Fraser on July 30, 2012 at 9:02pm

You ideally should check the gravity and wait till it has stayed the same for a couple of days. I usually leave it for 2 weeks to give it plenty of time. I don't think you'd want to leave it much later unless you were transferring to a secondary.

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Permalink Reply by Steve b on July 30, 2012 at 9:53pm

Hi there I checked gravity tonight I'm at 1029 target 1018 maybe another week

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