Questions tagged [primary]
Primary fermentation is the initial and primary stage of fermentation where the yeast consumes the sugars in the wort and converts them to alcohol and carbon dioxide.
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Half the amount of dry spray malt added to a kit
I have just realised that I have only added half of the required amount of spray malt to my beer kit on day 7 of fermentation. Can I just stir in another bag of spray malt after racking it off the ...
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Is my beer infected? from an amateur. Posted a picture
I used only DME and hops to boil the wort. Added dry yeast directly. I looked up on the internet for similar pictures but couldn't find any. I know every beer ferments differently. So I thought I ...
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I have Youngs Elderberry kit
I am on day 3 and instructions state "top up 4.54 litres tepid water". Does this mean top up TO 4.54 litres? Should I leave space in the demijohn and how much space? It's still got 7 to 20 days to ...
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Stalled fermentation
I've started brewing an Oktoberfest. It has been in primary for a little less than a week. The first 24 hours was good, super active. After about a day, it got pretty warm here, and the ...
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Best way to avoid stirring up trub while bottling/kegging from the primary?
Since I started brewing I've ALWAYS transferred to a secondary after about 2 weeks. This was how I learned and what many recipes say to do so I always did it. And I felt that this was a fantastic way ...
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Cider not fermenting
My first cider attempt. It's day three and see no activity in the airlock. So this is what I did. I juiced 20kg of apples and got just over 3 gallons of juice. I took a gravity reading of 1.050 at ...
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Hops - Do they stay in the wort for the primary fermentation or not?
I have two sets of instructions for putting the wort into the primary fermentation bucket. One says to just dump the entire contents of the wort into the bucket. The second says to stir like crazy ...
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Bubbles restart after 1 month?
i've done 4 batches one month ago, one per day, day after day.
My batches now are of 60L, and I use 2 30L fermenters for each batch. 2 of the 4 batches are the "same recipe", so I have 4 fermenters ...
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14 days in the primary to long? [duplicate]
Hi I am doing an ipa and was wondering if 14 days in the primary is to long before racking to a secondary for dry hopping. I see others saying 7 days in the primary then 14 days in the secondary.
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Can I re-aerate in the Primary?
Is there a downside to shaking the primary fermenter to re-suspend the yeast if the fermentation is going slowly?
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Primary Fermentation Increased
So I brewed an IPA about 2 weeks ago. I used a glass carboy for fermentation and for the first 2 days it was heavy bubbles then for the next week and a half there were a few tiny bubbles. I checked ...
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Adding color/flavor during and after fermentation?
After a week of fermentation I'm realizing I missed my mark on color and flavor:
What I've got:
A great brown porter
What I want:
A more robust porter
I'm wondering if I steep some Midnight Wheat ...
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So I don't know if my primary is done
I started primary 5 days ago. On the second day it had a healthy yeast cake on top. Day three it began to fall and yesterday, so day 4, it went all the way down. The temp is at 70 degrees and is an ...
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Adding coffee without secondary
There are several questions about adding coffee, but the best results always seem to result from adding the coffee at secondary fermentation. I simply don't have a second vessel so this is not an ...
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How worried should I be about a plastic-wrapped kettle that had to air chill for two days?
I was in the middle of a 7-gallon brew, when my landlord informed me that the grain that I had put down my garbage disposal had clogged the main drain for the house. My sink is too small for an ice ...
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