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Do you primer directly into your primary? I bottle primed my first, but it was so tedious. This time racked to a carboy once the fermentation quieted down. Now trub is gone. Although the the 5 gallon carboy has a lot more head space than I would have expected... I'll rack back to my primary...

Forgetting to fill the airlock...

Just some follow up... Admitting an embarrassing newbie mistake. I didn't quite have enough vodka in my airlock. Added one more centimeter and the bubbling resumed. Will add this to my checklist for next time. :-)

Probably not. But I wanted a peek inside to see how much foam and to listen for bubbling, also to see how much I was actually agitating the contents of the bucket... Mostly, though, I didn't want to risk sloshing airlock fluid into my fermenter.

Following unionrdr's suggestion, I have the fermenter bucket a gentle swirl and then replaced the airlock. This seems to have given new life to the airlock... at least for now. I realize there's a lot of science behind this. But it's very hard to know when to meddle and when to let nature do...

Same thing just happened to me on my second homebrew this weekend. I prepared a cooper's select wheat beer yesterday afternoon and within three hours had greater than one bubble per second on the airlock. This morning at 7am things were moving along at similar pace, but an hour later all...