What is your longest active fermentation?

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  1. beerbully

    beerbully Savant (1,169) Feb 2, 2009 New Jersey

    Brewed chinook IPA from northern brewer last Sat. Active fermentation (noticed in airlock) started on Sunday and still have active fermentation (Sat. eve) in the airlock........Most of my homebrews are done in a few days (nothing noticeable in the airlock) and none have gone for a week. So the question is.........what is your longest active fermentation? and........ is this a good sign?
     
  2. koopa

    koopa Initiate (0) Apr 20, 2008 New Jersey

    I've had wheat beer fermentations with airlocks bubbling for over 10 days. I've had baltic porter fermentations (using lager yeast) where the airlock activity went for about 9 days, but the gravity continued to drop over the course of 6+ weeks.
     
  3. utahbeerdude

    utahbeerdude Maven (1,374) May 2, 2006 Utah

    Yeast will do what yeast will do. It is not necessarily a bad sign. I suggest waiting another week or so and checking the gravity twice a couple of days apart to see if fermentation is complete.
     
  4. skivtjerry

    skivtjerry Pooh-Bah (1,865) Mar 10, 2006 Vermont
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    I've had some brett beers chug pretty good for a month, 2 weeks for a lager, 10 days or so for a couple of ales when the basement was a little cool. They all turned out fine; just let the yeast do its thing.
     
  5. Boozecamel

    Boozecamel Initiate (0) Feb 25, 2011 Canada (BC)

    I have had Saisons and Imperial IPA's fermenting for 6 weeks. Used yeasts with high attenuation, but tthey took awhile to get there
     
  6. bgjohnston

    bgjohnston Initiate (0) Jan 14, 2009 Connecticut

    My lambic barrel had its first birthday back in August. What was there was good, but no real sourness had gotten started yet. It will be going for many months to come.
     
  7. bgjohnston

    bgjohnston Initiate (0) Jan 14, 2009 Connecticut

    I also did an imperial red last year that went 8 weeks and still overcarbed 1/2 the bottles a couple of months later. I would have sworn it was done when I bottled, but it made a liar out of me.
     
  8. JrGtr

    JrGtr Pooh-Bah (1,775) Apr 13, 2006 Massachusetts
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    I had one that was destined to be a sour (RR Consecration clone) that was pretty active for almost a month.
    A pale ale I did not long ago was active for 3 weeks, and dropped a couple points from day 21 to 24. At 28 it had been stable those four days so I bottled it (needed it for 2 weeks later.)
     
  9. rocdoc1

    rocdoc1 Savant (1,215) Jan 13, 2006 New Mexico

    I brewed a Belgian strong dark ale, around 1.100 OG that took 5 weeks, when it got to ~1.030 I had to raise the internal temp to around 75 to get it to finish.
     
  10. Longstaff

    Longstaff Initiate (0) May 23, 2002 Massachusetts


    Airlock activity may not correlate to fermentation activity. Co2 could just be releasing through the airlock.
     
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