Bottling before fermentation stops

[tzirtizi]

Hello!

I hope that this isn't too basic a question to ask - I wasn't able to find an answer by searching, but I may have been looking for the wrong search terms.

I'm making beer from a kit (BrewFerm Oud Vlaam's Bruin) which has three stages of fermentation: the beer is fermented in a normal big bucket for 10 days, then moved to another container (I've used three demijohns) where it sits/ferments for another two to four weeks before being primed and bottled. I actually left it in the first container for slightly more than 10 days, and have now left it in the demijohns for slightly more than four weeks--and it's still fermenting visibly. On warm days, a lot of bubbles are still rising to the surface and the airlocks are still regularly bubbling. I wonder if this might be because I've let it get far too warm--I've just moved it to a cooler spot. But either way, should I prime and bottle now, as instructed by the recipe? Or would I be risking exploding bottles?

Thanks!

 

[iceo]

i have just bottled the this kit. i didnt move mine to a second fv just 3 weeks in the first FV. sg was 1.065 and bottled a 1.010 but i used 650g golden syrup so my figures maybe a little out

i think the Fg should be about 1.006

what readings have you got? as it could just be co2 left in the brew coming out on a warm day

 

[tzirtizi]

Well, without knowing very much about what these figures mean, I think I have 1.004? Does that sound about right? :)

I hadn't known about carbon dioxide coming out when it warmed up - that sounds like a likely explanation for the continued bubbling!

 

[iceo]

at 1.004 i would bottle but thats me. take a reading again tomorrow if it the same then bottle and wait a few months

 

[tzirtizi]

great, thank you very much!

 

[iceo]

no problem.

hope its a good brew for you.

i have made some changes to my kit but its still come out about 7.2% :drunk: