I started my first batch a few weeks ago and had pretty constant bubbling between day 2 and day 8 and then maybe once a minute for another week and then it became really slow. I racked from the bucket to a clear carboy at 3 weeks. I do not really see any bubbling now....what should I do?
Also, it was hard to tell if my batch was good or not when I took the lid off of the bucket. Definitely had a little bit of a milky look to parts of it and I could not quite tell if it smelled bad or yeasty. No noticeable mold but definitely a specific smell. I siphoned it into the carboy without getting into the spoils at the bottom and the material that was siphoned looks fairly clear from what I can tell.
Do I need to re-start it with more yeast? Anything else? Temperature of the material was 71 F. My recipe is as follows:
-6 gallon batch
-6 gal spring water
-One Step sanitizer
-12 lbs. Clover honey
-dissolved honey in 3 gal of spring water and heated to 160 F and held for 15 minutes and let cool to 75 F
-Fermax at 1.5 tsp/gal
-Yeast energizer at 1/2 tsp/gal
-2 packets of LD47 yeast into 105 F water prior to adding into mixture
Added it all together and put it sanitized bucket.
Also, it was hard to tell if my batch was good or not when I took the lid off of the bucket. Definitely had a little bit of a milky look to parts of it and I could not quite tell if it smelled bad or yeasty. No noticeable mold but definitely a specific smell. I siphoned it into the carboy without getting into the spoils at the bottom and the material that was siphoned looks fairly clear from what I can tell.
Do I need to re-start it with more yeast? Anything else? Temperature of the material was 71 F. My recipe is as follows:
-6 gallon batch
-6 gal spring water
-One Step sanitizer
-12 lbs. Clover honey
-dissolved honey in 3 gal of spring water and heated to 160 F and held for 15 minutes and let cool to 75 F
-Fermax at 1.5 tsp/gal
-Yeast energizer at 1/2 tsp/gal
-2 packets of LD47 yeast into 105 F water prior to adding into mixture
Added it all together and put it sanitized bucket.