Lengthy fermentation?

[YeastFeast]

16 days ago, brewed a homebrew shop's local kit. Style described as a "farmhouse ale" (OG 1.052 - FG 1.008). It was a combination of malt extract (LME & DME) and steeped specialty grains (for an hour). Used Wyeast 1056 and created a starter the night before using a oxygen pump on it for 14 hours. OG was in fact 1.052, after 10 days, the gravity reading was 1.012. Now in the 16th day, still looks like there's quite a bit of krausen on top?? This is only my 4th brew but all my others had the krausen drop and the top pretty clear after probably a week, certainly by 10 days? Just wondering if this is anything unusual or if everything looks cool?
Also, to me looks like a strange "fall out" on the bottom of the carboy?

Any comments welcome as I'm trying to understand the whole fermentation process!

Thanks for looking!!

See video...
http://youtu.be/GPMLlMOkXB4

 

[brettg20]

Don't worry about the krausen, fairly normal. What yeast did you use?


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[YeastFeast]

Don't worry about the krausen, fairly normal. What yeast did you use?

Wyeast 1056, created a starter (with air pump) the night before.

 

[Omahawk]

Sometimes the krausen doesn't drop even after fermentation is done. I've had this happen to me with kolsch and German ale yeast. Keep taking gravity readings, and if it holds steady for 3 days at this gravity, it's done. If you cool the fermenter in the fridge a couple of days, the krausen should drop.

 

[Smellyglove]

You can give your fementor a knock or a gentle shake and the krausen might drop, like Omahawk said sometimes the krausen just doesnt drop or it just gets stuck.

 

[surffisher2a]

Did you hit the FG (1.008)? That is pretty low, esp for an extract kit.

 

[YeastFeast]

Did you hit the FG (1.008)? That is pretty low, esp for an extract kit.

Going to check it tonight to see if lowered at all from the 1.012 after 10 days (it'll be 17 days tonight).

 

[YeastFeast]

Sometimes the krausen doesn't drop even after fermentation is done. If you cool the fermenter in the fridge a couple of days, the krausen should drop.

Thanks for reassuring me. If my gravity hasn't changed, I'll probably cold crash it this weekend (it'll have been about 3 week).

 

[YeastFeast]

Going to check it tonight to see if lowered at all from the 1.012 after 10 days (it'll be 17 days tonight).

Nope, didn't lower any further, dead on at 1.012. Just placed the carboy in the downstairs fridge to cold crash...

 

[YeastFeast]

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