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Rod

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I made a Coopers Mexican Cerves with 1.8 kg of light malt extract

starting @ 1050

after 9 days it has stopped at 1018

22 degrees C

never happened before

gave it a stir and but a heat band on it

never happened to me in 20 years or so

will it survive

:thumbsdown:
 
There has been some movement at the station , the colt has begun to trot ,

I await the gallop
 
Looks like it has finished @ 2018

is it safe to bottle

no bombs

:noworries:

reduce the light malt to 1.2 Kg next time

OK
 
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Sometimes its safe to say thats all you are going to get, but have you tried rousing it with a bit of a stir just to be sure. I got sent some ale yeast to try, each time it looked like it had stopped a nudge on the fermenter and away it went again. I hope I don't get sent any more.
 
I gave it a good stir

and the temperate was down a bit , so warmed ti up a bit with a heat band

it started off again , but not for long , yesterday

no action today , gave it a stir

I am going to bottle tomorrow

only my time to loose , and some dextrose for carbonation

looked at my record sheet and found a similar batch a few years ago that I bottled at 1018
 
Has not changed

now in the bottles
 
I had a similar situation last week. I bottled too. I feel it carbing in the plastic bottles but I'm worried that they will explode! All my brews have always had a much lower FG. I'm sure that my yeasts were not healthy before I put them in. I used older salfate s04.
 

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