angryyoungman
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So this is my first ever brew and I started very small (gallon growler) just to get my feet wet. I pitched about 1/4 a vial of WLP005 and had krausen within 24 hours. I had to ghetto rig a blow off tube because I didn't expect it to be that crazy. I mean it was angry and a little violent. Naturally I thought it was awesome, but within 48 hours of forming it fell back down and by day 5 virtually no sign of krausen, no airlock activity, nothing. And I know not to trust the airlock. So I put my hydrometer directly into the growler thinking I was smart... And the hydrometer hit the bottom. It cannot accurately read the gravity because there's just not a high enough level of liquid to float in. So I'm wondering, is it stuck fermentation because the activity virtually died so soon? I have read WLP005 can be tricky and I have seen others say krausen only lasted three days. But mine was even shorter, it was vigorous and wrathful, but short. Perhaps this is due to my small scale operation? Anyway should I rack it into secondary (i'm going to rack it onto some coffee) or just leave it be for a little longer? It's a milk stout with an OG of 1.052 if that helps at any.