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Safe to bottle?

Postby Lebowski » Thursday Feb 10, 2005 8:08 am

I've had a Little creatures pale ale recipe fermenting for about a week and bubbling had stopped so I chucked in some finings on monday. Since then however it has started letting off the odd bubble every now and then (maybe one every few minutes?).
On monday the SG was 1010 and is still at that now.

Can I safely bottle without worrying about explosions?
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Postby Dogger Dan » Thursday Feb 10, 2005 9:13 am

I am not real familiar with this product but if it is stable at 1010 drive on.

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Postby Oliver » Thursday Feb 10, 2005 9:52 am

Dogger is right. It will be fine if the SG is the same now as on Monday.

The odd bubbling in the airlock is normal.

And 1010 is a reasonable finishing gravity.

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Postby BPJ » Friday Feb 11, 2005 9:01 am

The odd ocassional bubble can be caused by pressure variations between the inside and outside. i.e. atmospheric changes / weather / temp. fluctuations. etc .One of my fermentors is more prone to it. It is a bucket style and the lid is very fexible and changeable. sometimes it is domed up and then sometimes flat, depending on weather etc. So bubbles near the end of fermentation are hard to determine the cause.

Just follow SG readings is the safest
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Postby Jeff » Friday Feb 11, 2005 3:54 pm

One recommendation - as a rule of thumb give each brew a week to ferment and another to settle and any otherwise unfinished fermentation can do so during this time. I tend not to trust hydrometer readings as the calibration (on mine at least) is hard to read and anyway how can you be sure the fermentation has really finished. I've had some brews go quiet then start up the bubbling again. After two weeks, bottle and enjoy!
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