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I'll pitch some yeast from a starter tomorrow

Yep still has the lactose, forgot to write that. It bubbled for a few minutes and now has stopped again and the krausen is totally gone. I guess I'll keep an eye on the gravity over the next week and if it still doesn't come down ill pitch some yeast from a starter.

After all that it has finally started bubbling away again. Third time swirling it next to the heater and it finally just kicked back to life. I looked back at my receipt for the grains and found that the mix was actually 3.5kg ale malt 1kg flaked oats 500g chocolate malt 500g roasted barley...

Thanks for the advice, I've tasted the beer and it's not half bad to me although I'm probably a little biased. Originally I had mostly chocolate malt and a little bit of RB but a guy at the shop talked me out of it and said better to use roasted barley instead and adjusted my recipe for me. I...

Thanks for running the numbers for me Sp0rk, since my gravity has been 1.030 for 4-5 days is it safe to assume I have a stuck fermentation?

I used brew log on on my phone to work out the recipe.

Recipe is: 5kg Australian Pale Malt 1kg Roasted Barley 1kg Flaked Oats 500g Lactose 40l crown urn BIAB 30-35 litres strike water 60 min mash 60 min boil Hopped with galaxy Finished with around 20litres of wort

Thanks for your reply, according to some posts on homebrewtalk.com 1.18pounds of lactose (535grams) should add 8 points of gravity. So I'm thinking you are probably right. I'd read a lot of different info on lactose and a lot of posts saying it doesn't add much gravity but after doing some more...

Doing my first BIAB beer and the gravity has been stuck at 1.030 for the last four days or so. OG was 1.066. Yeast is Safale US-05 pitched directly into the wort and mAy have been pitched a bit on the warm side. Started bubbling after about 10-12 hours but only bubbled for one day. I've been...