I'm new to brewing and should've read up some more before I started my first brew. Anyways. I think I bottled to early and now I'm worried that I just created 2 cases of bottle bombs.
This was a 5 gallon amber ale kit from Midwest supplies that's came with a dry yeast pack. Firmentation started within 20 hours of sprinkling the yeast over the wort and aeration with a whisk. 3 days later, I had no more activity in the airlock. I check SG was 1.020. I forgot to take a starting reading so I had nothing to compare it with. While searching online, I read that dry yeast can finish is as little as 1-2 days. So I figured it was time to bottle. Tomorrow will be sixth day that the beer has been carbonating/conditioning in the bottle. Well since finding homebrewtalk.com I'm staring to think I didn't let the primary fermentation finish. Also I noticed that there is a later of sediment on the bottom of each bottle. The beer is sitting at my cousin house and I'm really worried that I may have a dangerous situation. What do you guys think?
Tomorrow I'm going to go over and open a bottle and see it I get a beer fountain if I do, I think I'm going to abandon this batch.
This was a 5 gallon amber ale kit from Midwest supplies that's came with a dry yeast pack. Firmentation started within 20 hours of sprinkling the yeast over the wort and aeration with a whisk. 3 days later, I had no more activity in the airlock. I check SG was 1.020. I forgot to take a starting reading so I had nothing to compare it with. While searching online, I read that dry yeast can finish is as little as 1-2 days. So I figured it was time to bottle. Tomorrow will be sixth day that the beer has been carbonating/conditioning in the bottle. Well since finding homebrewtalk.com I'm staring to think I didn't let the primary fermentation finish. Also I noticed that there is a later of sediment on the bottom of each bottle. The beer is sitting at my cousin house and I'm really worried that I may have a dangerous situation. What do you guys think?
Tomorrow I'm going to go over and open a bottle and see it I get a beer fountain if I do, I think I'm going to abandon this batch.