Gravity dropping to 0.999

[Bender_]

Hey all,

Brewed a pale ale on the weekend and when filtering into the fermenter I found a small cockroach in the bottom of the boiled wort, fucker had hidden in one of the outlets before I'd started. I said meh and continued on.

SG for this batch was 1.054, pitched with a Wyeast smack pack of American Ale II and some yeast nutrients were added to the boil and started active fermentation about 24 hours later.

I've kept an eye on it - made easy with a Tilt - but today's reading was at 0.999. Now I'm starting to worry that the batch is infected in some way from the roach (or something else).

Smells fine, if a little boozy. Planning on a taste test a bit later.

Any thoughts?

 

[bigmunchez]

If you boiled the cockroach then I think you can safely disregard its contributions.
I'd be rechecking the FG reading with a hydrometer, I suspect your tilt is misleading you.

 

[MHB]

Find another roach, do same again, if it drops to .999 again you might have just discovered a new form/source of Amylase - that has to be worth money to someone.
Mark

 

[Bender_]

If you boiled the cockroach then I think you can safely disregard its contributions.
I'd be rechecking the FG reading with a hydrometer, I suspect your tilt is misleading you.

Good call. Begrudgingly opened it up and took a sample and scooped up the Tilt, looks like some gunk from the krausen had settled on top of it and was weighing it down. Gave it a quick scrape and both the Tilt and the manual hydrometer measured up at 1.007.


Glad it appears to be fine!

 

[Bender_]

Find another roach, do same again, if it drops to .999 again you might have just discovered a new form/source of Amylase - that has to be worth money to someone.
Mark

I know! Now I'm disappointed it's all fine.