Stuart Harben
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I put down a Coopers Lager brew in a Brigalow kit. It stopped bubbling 3 days ago but the hydrometer reading tells me it's only 3/4's done. Can anyone advise me what to do here?
I put down a Coopers Lager brew in a Brigalow kit. It stopped bubbling 3 days ago but the hydrometer reading tells me it's only 3/4's done. Can anyone advise me what to do here?
hydrometer reading tells me it's only 3/4's done.
It sound like a stuck fermenter to me but we would really need more info (like what id the SG and what is it expected to be) the other option is maybe it got hot and killed all the yeast
but if it is a stuck fermenter it just means that the yeast has fallen out of the beer and is sitting in the bottom if you stir up the sedament i can unstick a brew and get it going again
Thanks. SG is 1010-1012, should be 1000-1005. There seems to be undisolved Dextrose on the bottom. Is it okay to remove the lid at this stage of fermentation in order to stir it?
PS I'm in Perth.
That will be yeast on the bottom....and 1000-1005? Kinda doubt it. FG depends on the ingredients, volume, the attenuation of the yeast, and the yeast viability. If it was a tin + 1kg of dextrose, I would expect 1.005-1.008 (give or take). If it had any form of brew booster, brew enhancer, etc etc, 1008-1012 is more likely, depending on what the adjunct mix was.
What exactly was in the brew? 1 tin coopers lager, but what else? and to what volume? Kit yeast, or something else?
1kg dextrose and a brew enhancer? I'd say it's likely done...but just to be absolutely sure, leave it for 24hrs, and take another reading. Then another 24hrs, and another reading. If the next 2 hydro readings are the same as the current one, put a fork in it. It's done.
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