Aussie Bitter....

[cosmo]

hi guys took this recipe off the brewmaster site and its been down for week and a half and is reading 1020sg and very little action thru the airlock the recipe was
balck rock pilsner blonde
yeast saf 23
brewcraft #15
dry wheat malt 200g (had to use wheat unhopped spraymalt)

made up to 21 litres

sg started at 1050

could someone please advise should i leave it a bit longer eg would another couple days help it or should i check it again and if the sg is the same put the finnings in it and bottle it

thanks for any help

 

[ekul]

At 1020 it sounds like it has probably stalled, and if it unstalls it may give you bottle bombs. Things you can do are rocking the fermenter to try stir up the yeast (careful not to splash too much) or bring the temp up to 20.

What you can do is to fill up a sanitised stubby with wort. Give it a good shake and then cover with gladwrap, leave somewhere warm. If the gravity in the stubby goes down then it means that your wort still has fermentable sugars.

Your last resort is to sanitise a spoon and then stir up the yeast down the bottom.

Do a search for 'stall 1020', you'd be surprised how common this is, I was when it first happened to me, seems that 1020 is the magic stall number

 

[cosmo]

thanks ekul actyally had it sitting in a plastic rubbish bin lid filled with water and draped with a towel to try and keep it cool,recipe said to try and keep it under 20 so have taken towel off and gently rocked it and left for 1/2 hour and now seeems to be off again airlock working overtime so yes must of stalled now just to wait the result i suppose.
thanks again

 

[Yob]

thanks ekul actyally had it sitting in a plastic rubbish bin lid filled with water and draped with a towel to try and keep it cool,recipe said to try and keep it under 20 so have taken towel off and gently rocked it and left for 1/2 hour and now seeems to be off again airlock working overtime so yes must of stalled now just to wait the result i suppose.
thanks again

Dont trust airlock activity as a sign that fermentation has started again, gravity readings are your only TRUE was of knowing whats going on.

:icon_cheers:

 

[cosmo]

Dont trust airlock activity as a sign that fermentation has started again, gravity readings are your only TRUE was of knowing whats going on.

:icon_cheers:

cheers will leave it for a couple days and take another reading and go from there

 

[cosmo]

hi guys well have left it for a couple days but still reading 1020 what will happen if i bottle it now,will it just have a lower alcohol content or will i be getting bottle bombs plse

 

[Yob]

have you tried swirling the fermenter to try and re-suspend the yeast?

Ive had a few stall at this point and have managed to get them going again by, in worst case, sanitising a big old spoon and giving it a stir at the bottom to get the yeast going again.

what you can also do is run off 100ml or so into the hydrometer tube, put some gladwrap over the top, leave it somewhere warm and shake the shit out of every time you walk past it, if the gravity goes down while doing this then there are still unfermented sugars in it.

This fast track reading is handy for telling in advance what the terminal gravity should be in the fermenter.

How does it taste? If it still tastes sweet then I would say you may need to rouse the yeast to get them to finish the job.

Good luck mate.

Yob

edit link added I wouldnt want this

 

[cosmo]

have you tried swirling the fermenter to try and re-suspend the yeast?

Ive had a few stall at this point and have managed to get them going again by, in worst case, sanitising a big old spoon and giving it a stir at the bottom to get the yeast going again.

what you can also do is run off 100ml or so into the hydrometer tube, put some gladwrap over the top, leave it somewhere warm and shake the shit out of every time you walk past it, if the gravity goes down while doing this then there are still unfermented sugars in it.

This fast track reading is handy for telling in advance what the terminal gravity should be in the fermenter.

How does it taste? If it still tastes sweet then I would say you may need to rouse the yeast to get them to finish the job.

Good luck mate.

Yob

edit link added I wouldnt want this

cheers had a look at that link and yeh probably best as you say sterilise spoon and stir it up for a couple more days

 

[manticle]

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