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Alright, it's been a few weeks, here's where I'm at. To review, SG was 1.068, it stuck after about a week at 1.042 and held steady for a week. Someone suggested an O2 problem, so I made 1gal of the same recipe and shook the fermenter like hell for 5m. After 1 day it peaked, and I added it to...

Huh, that's an interesting idea. So you're basically only throwing in the easy work (Candi, Honey) after the Yeast are through with the hard work. Neat idea, I'll look into that.

Here's the recipe I used; it was basically adapted from what I'd read before going to my LHBS... and further adapted from the really low selection available at the time. The Yeast was what I had on-hand from a Hard Cider I was working on, and is obviously not my normal choice. The Hops is Wild...

One of the suggestions someone gave was to use a Yeast Calculator, along with good yeast. The calculator recommended 11g, and I only pitched 5g. One of the "good yeasts" at my LHBS was Nottingham, available in 11g, so I grabbed some. Another suggestion I was given, in order to fix the "not...

Well, if I'm getting stuck based on low oxygen, supplying new oxygen in the form of a large starter should help, correct? If I'm oxygen-capped, what else will fix the batch, aside from shaking my carboy?

Alright, as suggested I've made a 1gal mini-batch of beer similar to the style of my latest stuck batch. This time I shook the bejesus out of it for a full 5 minutes. I hydrated 11g of fresh Nottingham yeast (what the yeast calculator suggested for my original batch) for 15m and pitched it...

So just to clarify, you're saying that prior to pitching yeast I should be shaking the beer to aerate it, then I pitch yeast onto it and leave it alone? Also, "get rid of the secondary", meaning don't bother with it? I guess I don't understand the point of a Secondary then; I'd thought the...

Android - Not sure what type of Dry Yeast it is specifically; I didn't special order it or anything, so I'm thinking it's just Muntons or something. PT Ray - The latest recipe was mostly light liquid extract, then some Extra Dark DME, Candi Sugar, Honey (it was a poor-man's under-researched...

Hey guys, first time poster here! Hoping you can solve my basic conundrum. I've been brewing for about a year, entirely from brewer's best partial-boil extract kits. Until about 3 batches ago, I've never bothered to check/record OG/FG readings; I tried on our first batch and didn't understand...

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