It will be fine.Fr_Marc wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 9:27 pmPlease allow me to come back to my original topic (kind of...).
The ale has been in the fermenter for 11 days now. Original gravity was 1.050 and is down to 1.013 now. The room temperature where the fermenter is placed has been constantly 18.5 C. The ale in the fermenter has a temperature of 23C by now. The airlock shows no activity by now (no bubbling) and the last sample I took for gravity reading came out pretty clear and bright.
My question is: Is it possible to leave the ale in the fermenter for another 7 days, before bottling (using carbonation drops). I am anxious that there won’t be enough active yeast cells to ensure carbonation by that time. A follow up question would be: If it is possible to wait 7 days before bottling, should I lower the surrounding temperature (i.e. put the fermenter in a 15C cool cellar) or would this be not a good idea?
Thank you again for helping a newbie brewer!
The yeast will find sugar from the drops. Yeast do not just die.