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Dr. Sideburns
I am brewing the Northern Brewer Wee Heavy kit with a friend. It comes with the malt syrup and specialty grains and thier kits produce some quality brews. Anyway I plug everything into beersmith and show him how cool it is (he'll be getting it for himself very soon). Ferment temp calls for 68F 4 days in the primary and 7 in the secondary, the yeast is wyeast #1728 scottish ale smack pack. At my buddy's house we are fermenting on the warmer side of his beer cellar which stays between 60-62 this time of year pretty constant. Because of this I assumed it would just need some extra time in the primary and to ferment in general before bottling. we racked to the secondary last night which should have been the night to bottle but it still has a little settling to do and I guess we will just have to go by hydrometer readings as far as when to bottle. I basicly wanted someone to confirm that everything is cool. Is there a rule of thumb for temp difference? Should we try and get the secondary warmed up a bit or leave it alone? The yeast is doing its thing for sure, maybe a little slower. OG was 1.091 and right now we are at 1.038 7%, est FG is 1.024. we are going to bottle condition and age to Thanksgiving and hide some away for Christmas if we can controll ourselves. suggestions?