extract brew stuck?

[ori0]

Hi guys,

I have a kit brew (mangrove jacks gold ale) that's been fermenting for 3 weeks. I think its the cold weather slowing it down because the thermometer is showing about 12C in the evening.

Anyways i put the heating belt on it to get it up around 16-18C and the gravity was going down until a few days ago. It stopped at 1.016.
Thats a bit higher than the FG on the kit instructions so I'm not sure whether it stalled or whether i could bottle it? It's had some higher temps in the last few
days so i thought the fermentation might kick in again, but it didn't.

Anyways, tell me what you think.

 

[carniebrew]

Did you try rousing the yeast up by gently swirling/rocking the fermenter once the temps were up? Be careful not to aerate your beer at this stage while doing it, but given the low temps a lot of your yeast may well have dropped off to sleep and settled down the bottom.

1016 is also not out of the question as a final gravity though. What was your OG, and your entire ingredients? Remember to include the volume in the fermenter.

 

[roverfj1200]

Test your hydrometer in water to see if it is accurate. If you can get the temp up to 20 that would finish of the last few points if they are there.

Cheers

 

[ori0]

Did you try rousing the yeast up by gently swirling/rocking the fermenter once the temps were up? Be careful not to aerate your beer at this stage while doing it, but given the low temps a lot of your yeast may well have dropped off to sleep and settled down the bottom.

1016 is also not out of the question as a final gravity though. What was your OG, and your entire ingredients? Remember to include the volume in the fermenter.

Ok, will try to swirl and see if it starts up again.
The OG was supposed to be 1.047 per the recipe but i was an idiot and didnt measure the OG. I made a lot of mistakes on the first one.
The ingredients were 3kg LME filled to about 23L (again i didnt measure it exactly just filled to the line), dry hopped with cascade/columbus.

learned a lot from mistakes.

 

[carniebrew]

Ok, will try to swirl and see if it starts up again.
The OG was supposed to be 1.047 per the recipe but i was an idiot and didnt measure the OG. I made a lot of mistakes on the first one.
The ingredients were 3kg LME filled to about 23L (again i didnt measure it exactly just filled to the line), dry hopped with cascade/columbus.

learned a lot from mistakes.

3kg of LME? Is that on top of the Mangrove Jacks can? If so, you've made a HUGE beer there, OG should have been 1063, and 1016 is about right as an FG...and you'll have a 6.5% beer after bottle conditioning.

If the 3kg includes the can of Mangrove Jacks, then you should be looking at a 1040'ish beer finishing around 1010.