Right, this makes sense, and sorry to be a pain but now that you mencion it, how can I know how much sugar to add in order to get a good but not excesive carbonation? And also, is it not given by the actual fermentable sugars left in the beer?
But what if I want to get some unfermented sugar in the final beer and avoid to have a light body? Cooling down seems to be the only option there, right? Do you think that is gonna affect badly the final result?
By the way, once you have the FG that you were looking for, do you transfer to the secondary or do you put your primary inside a fridge to cut the yeast activity?:confused: Because what I use to do is to place the primary into the fridge for about one day.
Also, you leave your secondary at room...
Thanks a lot, and yes, after is fermented we leave it with the fermenter cooler till is cold enough to move it into a conditioning tank for the secondary.
Hi guys, I was kind of worried because I'm reading in lots of comments (and I had some conversations before about it) that an average ale fermentation should take about 2 weeks if not longer.
At this moment I got a Double IPA (OG 1080) in the primary, has been there for 5 days and is already in...