wabster
Well-Known Member
I pitched an APA style brew at OG 1052 in mid-June, and after 3 weeks the gravity was 1030. It was still at 1030 at 6 weeks, despite racking, additional yeast and aeration. I was outta ideas on this.
At a exhibition day at Casula Country Rrewer last Saturday, the fellow giving the sessions suggested maybe I'd mashed at too high a temperature, and the stuck brew was because of too many complex/unfermentable sugars as a result. His suggested solution was to add a pack of "dry enzyme". Despite being fairly sure I'd done the correct mash temps, I couldn't be 100% sure.
Lacking any further ideas I bought and added a $2 pack of the dry enzyme, and added it to my stuck brew mid afternoon Saturday 2nd August.
Since a few hours after the addition, the brew has been fermenting like a steam train, the airlock is hammering away. I can only assume his analysis was correct.
My question now is, how long will this take to get to a finishing Gravity and can it go too low?
Has anyone done this to solve a stuck brew problem and what were the results in terms of FG and overall end result quality.
I might add that without doing this addition of dry enzyme, the brew which smells and tastes fine but just wouldn't ferment out, was destined for the drain. The smell coming out of the airlock at present is wonderful Which is encouraging.
Thanks for any comments, Cheerz Wab.
At a exhibition day at Casula Country Rrewer last Saturday, the fellow giving the sessions suggested maybe I'd mashed at too high a temperature, and the stuck brew was because of too many complex/unfermentable sugars as a result. His suggested solution was to add a pack of "dry enzyme". Despite being fairly sure I'd done the correct mash temps, I couldn't be 100% sure.
Lacking any further ideas I bought and added a $2 pack of the dry enzyme, and added it to my stuck brew mid afternoon Saturday 2nd August.
Since a few hours after the addition, the brew has been fermenting like a steam train, the airlock is hammering away. I can only assume his analysis was correct.
My question now is, how long will this take to get to a finishing Gravity and can it go too low?
Has anyone done this to solve a stuck brew problem and what were the results in terms of FG and overall end result quality.
I might add that without doing this addition of dry enzyme, the brew which smells and tastes fine but just wouldn't ferment out, was destined for the drain. The smell coming out of the airlock at present is wonderful Which is encouraging.
Thanks for any comments, Cheerz Wab.