Unless you're purging your secondary with CO2, you always want to rack while the yeast is still active so that continued fermentation pushes the air out of the carboy headspace. At home, I typically rack to secondary as soon as the krausen has fallen.
I'm still a noob so I use prepackaged recipe kits. They include all of the "beer ingredients" you need (you may need to provide honey, caramel, BOURBON, depending on what you're making).
No, certainly not. If you rack to secondary this weekend I'd bet you'll see a little fermentation kick back up. RDWHAHDammit, there is no more bubbling going on.Is my beer ruined?
The hops shortage has been retarded on the market in my hometown. The hop growers have been making ridiculous $$$$ for their hops. From what I know it stems from Budweiser not paying attention to their hops storage and letting it get super low. They then proceeded to buy anything and everything they could get their hands on effectively driving the price through the roof. I had no idea the busch f*ck up was effecting the home brew market too.
I racked to seconday this evening. Today's FG reading was the same as yesterday.No, certainly not. If you rack to secondary this weekend I'd bet you'll see a little fermentation kick back up. RDWHAH
That would be really cool. Let us know what you dig up if anything, I'm sure somebody here might have a use for whatever it is.
Beer magic. You're worrying too much over this. Relax, have a homebrew.
The hops are still immersed in beer and the beer is absorbing some of their flavor and aroma. At this point you're not adding any more bitterness to the beer, that's all done during boil.I just want to understand!
1-2 weeks is a good secondary if you're dry hopping, the longer it sits the stronger the hop flavor and aroma will be (to a point). You're planning on brewing Sunday? Want to come up and brew with us?
Thanks for the invite but we're having a Super Bowl gathering Sunday.
BadDNA mentioned the temperature. Do you know what the temp was when you took the OG reading?The reading was lower than expected. I don't want wussy beer. I don't live in Utah and there is more than one reason for that!
How much lower?The reading was lower than expected. I don't want wussy beer. I don't live in Utah and there is more than one reason for that!
This is the first I've heard about any AB fault in the shortage. I always thought they relied on their own farms for hops. The big reasons I heard were that a majority of the 07 (or 06?) US harvest went up in flames in a warehouse fire in the PacNW and that the European harvest was especially awful those same years. The good news is that we've started receiving our 08 harvest hops and things look good. We haven't heard of any shortfalls in the foreseeable future. Prices are coming down, but not as quickly as we'd like. I'm hoping the falling prices reach you guys, because you've certainly been hit the hardest by the hops shortage.
Busch does have a couple 1000 acres of its own hops in North Idaho and maybe some other places but mostly they buy hops through contracts with independent growers. Most all hops grown in the USA by commercial farms are done solely on contract. AB was stockpiling their hops and then relying on their storage for brewing. In this period the contracts were shrinking and growers were pulling acreage. Busch's realization that their stocks were low and the consequent mad-dash for hops is what drove the price up. Since then massive plantings have gone in. I've watched some farms double in size in the last year. This will counteract the balance and hops should be cheap again.
This just happened to me today. I brewed a barleywine that was supposed to read 1.082. It read 1.070. Stupid thing. I hope the FG drops real low, because a 6% barleywine will be teh suck.
So it would seem this problem may have been caused by not mixing the wort with the water in the carboy well enough.
Exactly!
Yah, I think this was our problem too. I will bottle this weekend and take a final reading.
You will want to make sure that your final reading is the lowest that it can go. If you bottle too early, Kablammo!
I have the same blinds.
teh siphoning.
You must be from Homebrewtalk.com, they always say that over there.
