bobsaget
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Hi all, this is my first post after being a long time lurker. Hope you can help me out, I will try and keep this short.
I am on to my 4th AG batch and am brewing a porter, I was worried the temp was getting too cold in the laundry so put the fermenter in the kitchen and I killed the fermentation because of the temp shock. So... I tried restarting it by throwing in a new packet of yeast (US-05)- didn't work. Tried using some old yeast slurry I saved from a previous batch (Nottingham Ale yeast) - didn't work. Did some reading up and realized I would have to make a starter. I made one using the 'standard' typical method often talked about - 80g DME to 800 ml water using US-05. All went well, yeast starter bubbled away for 24h, and I put it in the brew with a gentle stir. The brew then bubbled away happily for 15-16 hours and I thought I was home free but then it stopped and I took a gravity reading and its still stuck! There is currently no airlock activity, no foam on top of the brew and the gravity is still stuck at 1030! I really don't want to have to turf this brew any ideas on how to get it going again? Cheers
I am on to my 4th AG batch and am brewing a porter, I was worried the temp was getting too cold in the laundry so put the fermenter in the kitchen and I killed the fermentation because of the temp shock. So... I tried restarting it by throwing in a new packet of yeast (US-05)- didn't work. Tried using some old yeast slurry I saved from a previous batch (Nottingham Ale yeast) - didn't work. Did some reading up and realized I would have to make a starter. I made one using the 'standard' typical method often talked about - 80g DME to 800 ml water using US-05. All went well, yeast starter bubbled away for 24h, and I put it in the brew with a gentle stir. The brew then bubbled away happily for 15-16 hours and I thought I was home free but then it stopped and I took a gravity reading and its still stuck! There is currently no airlock activity, no foam on top of the brew and the gravity is still stuck at 1030! I really don't want to have to turf this brew any ideas on how to get it going again? Cheers