Smellypete
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ok here the deal,
I bought one of those brew your own beer kits. (wort, yeast and priming sugar) all bundled together. the instructions said to cap the bucket for primary fermentation. (against better judgement i followed the directions) naturally the pressure built up and opened a small area of the seal. a bunch of foam and what not leaked out. after it calmed down i put it into my secondary fermenter. now that its in there, I'm only getting about 1 bubble every 30 seconds. my question is did most of the active yeast leak out of the bucket with the foam and left me with a weak fermentation? if so would adding more yeast at this point help out, or is the wort not as active as i think it should be (munich dark lager). any help would be appreciated, many thanks !
I bought one of those brew your own beer kits. (wort, yeast and priming sugar) all bundled together. the instructions said to cap the bucket for primary fermentation. (against better judgement i followed the directions) naturally the pressure built up and opened a small area of the seal. a bunch of foam and what not leaked out. after it calmed down i put it into my secondary fermenter. now that its in there, I'm only getting about 1 bubble every 30 seconds. my question is did most of the active yeast leak out of the bucket with the foam and left me with a weak fermentation? if so would adding more yeast at this point help out, or is the wort not as active as i think it should be (munich dark lager). any help would be appreciated, many thanks !