Hi folks
This is my first post here and I hope someone can help me. I started a brew 3 weeks ago. I'm trying to create an Americam Pale Ale. I started with the Black Rock American Pale 1.7kg can + a Morgans Extra Pale 1.5kg can I also added 500g of dried light malt in an attempt to get the alcohol up over 5%. I started with 23l and my OG was 1.05. I racked to another fermenter after a week and the airlock pretty much stopped bubbling at that point which was a little surprising. Garvity was about 1.02. I left it a couple of days then pitched a little more yeast wqhich got things going again but after 3 weeks the gravity is sitting at 1.018.
I've never bottled anything that high before and while I can live with the fact I'm not getting the strength I was after, I'm concerned that I'll be making bombs.
Any thought anyone?
Cheers
Mark
This is my first post here and I hope someone can help me. I started a brew 3 weeks ago. I'm trying to create an Americam Pale Ale. I started with the Black Rock American Pale 1.7kg can + a Morgans Extra Pale 1.5kg can I also added 500g of dried light malt in an attempt to get the alcohol up over 5%. I started with 23l and my OG was 1.05. I racked to another fermenter after a week and the airlock pretty much stopped bubbling at that point which was a little surprising. Garvity was about 1.02. I left it a couple of days then pitched a little more yeast wqhich got things going again but after 3 weeks the gravity is sitting at 1.018.
I've never bottled anything that high before and while I can live with the fact I'm not getting the strength I was after, I'm concerned that I'll be making bombs.
Any thought anyone?
Cheers
Mark