Hi All, I would appreciate some advice.
I brewed a kit and but heated the whole liquid content in an urn. I then put that into a no chill cube. Next day I pored in a white labs yeast, fermenting in the cube. I left it for 8 days and then siphoned it into a keg. I hadn't taken a measurement but the whole time I had seen co2 coming off the airlock using a sanitised/detergent based spray at the base of the airlock. It had stopped producing any foamy bubbles for at least a couple of days. The fermenter was in my kitchen so the temp range probably went from 16 to 23. I noticed when I siphoned it that it smelled and tasted sweet. I flushed the keg with co2. Over time I have found that there is still fermenting activity as I let gas out of the keg but next day its under pressure again. It seems to me the ferment didn't finish originally. Could that be the case?
Regards, Nick
I brewed a kit and but heated the whole liquid content in an urn. I then put that into a no chill cube. Next day I pored in a white labs yeast, fermenting in the cube. I left it for 8 days and then siphoned it into a keg. I hadn't taken a measurement but the whole time I had seen co2 coming off the airlock using a sanitised/detergent based spray at the base of the airlock. It had stopped producing any foamy bubbles for at least a couple of days. The fermenter was in my kitchen so the temp range probably went from 16 to 23. I noticed when I siphoned it that it smelled and tasted sweet. I flushed the keg with co2. Over time I have found that there is still fermenting activity as I let gas out of the keg but next day its under pressure again. It seems to me the ferment didn't finish originally. Could that be the case?
Regards, Nick