Stalled brew

[Rod]

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

 

[Rod]

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

I await the gallop

 

[Rod]

Looks like it has finished @ 2018

is it safe to bottle

no bombs



reduce the light malt to 1.2 Kg next time

OK

 

[Reg Holt]

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.

 

[Rod]

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

 

[Rod]

Has not changed

now in the bottles

 

[chiefbrewlord]

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.