Good evening! I'm degassing my first kit and I'm finding out that it's as big of a pain in the a** as everybody seemed to imply it. It's been in the carboy for 12 days at 75-76F and it's at 76F (and 0.992) at the time of degassing. Newbie here is trying to stick to the instruction of the first attempt. For the last three days the "S" airlock has leveled.
Tonight I have attempted to degass and stabilize. I have "drilled" the stupid thing for 20 minutes after adding K-Meta and K-Sorbate. Than I have vacuum pumped it for another hour. Then I added Chitosan and "drilled" it for another 20, pumped it again for 30 minutes, then "drilled" it again for 20 minutes and... *drum roll* ... yes, you guessed it, it's still not degassed. The "test tube on palm test" still fails. There is still plenty foam being generated.
Should I just put an airlock back on it, leave it and try back tomorrow? Does it hurt anything? At this point the drill is tired.
Thanks,
-m
Tonight I have attempted to degass and stabilize. I have "drilled" the stupid thing for 20 minutes after adding K-Meta and K-Sorbate. Than I have vacuum pumped it for another hour. Then I added Chitosan and "drilled" it for another 20, pumped it again for 30 minutes, then "drilled" it again for 20 minutes and... *drum roll* ... yes, you guessed it, it's still not degassed. The "test tube on palm test" still fails. There is still plenty foam being generated.
Should I just put an airlock back on it, leave it and try back tomorrow? Does it hurt anything? At this point the drill is tired.
Thanks,
-m