Chimney

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So this is getting strange and a bit irritating! Two months ago I made a Porter that was suppost to end up at 1.012 and it stalled at 1.018. After rousing the yeast back into suspension and it doing nothing I decided to take the advice of waiting and repitching onto another yeast cake.

The next brew (that i would repitch the porter onto the yeast cake) is a cream ale that is also suppost to end up at 1.012 and again it stalled at 1.018.

Both were mini mash from AHB. I got the ice packs with the yeast but of course they were warm when I got them, they had to travel to Georgia in late July. I made starters and fermentations seemed to be normal.

I checked my hydrometer with tap water and it read 1.002.

Could the recipes be wrong? Is it something else? Advice?

McKBrew

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Did re-pitching help or did they still stick at 1.018?

All of my extract beers finished high, no matter what. 1.018 is a bit high, but not so much stuck as underattenuated. You should be safe bottling at 1.018.

Yooper

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I think an extract porter at 1.018 sounds fine. I'm thinking that the cream ale was probably just about done then, too. When I did extracts, sometimes I couldn't get them below about 1.018.

Your hydrometer might be off, but the only way to know is to check it in distilled water.

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McKBrew

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Yeah, what she said. (Worded way better than my response).

Chimney

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I never repitched...I was going to when I found that the cream ale was the same f.g.

Thanks for the advice.

Saccharomyces

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Check your mini-mash temp. You may be mashing too warm. Stir well before reading the temp and make sure your thermometer is accurate.

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