I looked around the forum and thought I should have posted the issue below as a new thread - so I just did it
Hello, I'm Rob - new member, and not much experience with brewing and forums. I'm not sure if my question belongs in this thread - please advise on that.
I'm brewing a Duval clone. It calls for what I think of as an actual refermentation - with 8 oz cane sugar (boiled in 2 cups water) and another vial of WLP 545 being added when racking to second carboy. I'm wondering if the refermentation is going well.
First Fermentation, I pitched at 70 deg. using a starter made from 1 vial of WLP 545, shook the carboy, and fermented at around 70 to 73 degrees.
My limited experience indicates that the first fermentation went well - within 12 hrs a vigorous stage with krausen blowing into the blowoff jar - 7 days later, just some bubbling, down to around 10 per minute.
Then, last Sunday, I poured the 8 oz cane sugar boiled in 2 cups water and cooled, and another vial of WLP 545 (no starter this time) directly into the empty second carboy, then carefully racked using only the stream of the beer at the bottom to somewhat mix the ingredients.
At that point the beer was around 72 deg, I then let it sit from last Sunday to yesterday (Wednesday) at around 70 deg., and then looked at it and noticed it did not have a vigorous stage and was bubbling around the same rate as before racking.
So I brought it into a warmer room and its been around 76 deg for about a day. it's still bubbling roughly at the same rate (maybe a bit more) as before the second fermentation. There is what I'd judge to be only a little "movement" visible in the beer in the carboy (compared to the extent of action during a vigorous period).
I realize there's a big difference in the amount of fermentable sugars between the two fermentations, but I don't know if that's the reason.
I'm wondering if something's gone wrong, and if so is there anything I should do.
Thank You.