Hi , this is a newbie question so by kind to me,
The wife and I started 2 x 30 bottle kits on Saturday, Mine is a Beaverdale Chardonnay and hers is a Muntons Chardonnay. All our kit is new, we have 2 x Youngs Fermenting vessels which we have started with and plan to rack off to a couple of 5 gallon carboys when fermentation is done and leave it to bulk age until hopefully its nice and drinkable. We followed instructions to the letter and the bubbles started plopping a little within a few hours so we were quite content, we used a brewbelt on both to keep the temp at around 20 - 25 deg, putting the belt at half way up the vessel as per instructions, they are both in our dining room as we only use it on high days and holidays and its quite cool in there as we turn the heating off.
Checked the temperature on Sunday morning using a laser gauge (use them for work, they save a lot of messing around with thermometers) and it showed the temp at around 28 deg, the beaverdale was bubbling slowly the Muntons not at all , took the belts off and have checked the temp this morning and its a more reasonable 21 to 22 deg.There is no bubbling through the airlocks of either brew but when I look at the lids of both vessels they look to be under pressure and are visibly convex in shape , I can hear a fizzing noise from both of them so assume something is going on. Question is , do we have anything to worry about ? is it likely that the vessels are not a perfect seal and the gas it getting out some other way ? Wife is convinced we have killed them off but she is a born worrier I think we are OK but would like a second opinion if anyone can spare a bit of time
The wife and I started 2 x 30 bottle kits on Saturday, Mine is a Beaverdale Chardonnay and hers is a Muntons Chardonnay. All our kit is new, we have 2 x Youngs Fermenting vessels which we have started with and plan to rack off to a couple of 5 gallon carboys when fermentation is done and leave it to bulk age until hopefully its nice and drinkable. We followed instructions to the letter and the bubbles started plopping a little within a few hours so we were quite content, we used a brewbelt on both to keep the temp at around 20 - 25 deg, putting the belt at half way up the vessel as per instructions, they are both in our dining room as we only use it on high days and holidays and its quite cool in there as we turn the heating off.
Checked the temperature on Sunday morning using a laser gauge (use them for work, they save a lot of messing around with thermometers) and it showed the temp at around 28 deg, the beaverdale was bubbling slowly the Muntons not at all , took the belts off and have checked the temp this morning and its a more reasonable 21 to 22 deg.There is no bubbling through the airlocks of either brew but when I look at the lids of both vessels they look to be under pressure and are visibly convex in shape , I can hear a fizzing noise from both of them so assume something is going on. Question is , do we have anything to worry about ? is it likely that the vessels are not a perfect seal and the gas it getting out some other way ? Wife is convinced we have killed them off but she is a born worrier I think we are OK but would like a second opinion if anyone can spare a bit of time