Ucdengboss
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I am new to home brewing and have been doing a lot of reading on this forum. First of all thank you to everyone for the responses to others posts as I have found them to be very helpful and insightful.
From my LHBS I purchased an Imperial Stout ME kit. This kit came with 2 yeast packs: US-05-American ale and a wine yeast (is this because of the expected 7% ABV?). The kit also featured 12lbs of LME. Instructions say FG should be 1.016-1.020. After 15 days in a primary I measured 1.032. At 20 days no change... still at 1.032... Ahhhh this seems very high!! After some reading here I decided to re-pitch a new US-05 dry yeast and give the primary a gentle swirl w/o any splashing to see if I can get this batch to drop at least a few more points. Later that day and the next day there was a little activity in the airlock (about 1 bubble every 2 mins). That brings us to today and my plan now. I want to go into a secondary with the hopes that this will re-start a little more fermentation. Of course I also want to do this to free up my primary for my next batch (Irish Red Ale). Does this seem reasonable or is there anything else that I can do? Thanks in advance!
From my LHBS I purchased an Imperial Stout ME kit. This kit came with 2 yeast packs: US-05-American ale and a wine yeast (is this because of the expected 7% ABV?). The kit also featured 12lbs of LME. Instructions say FG should be 1.016-1.020. After 15 days in a primary I measured 1.032. At 20 days no change... still at 1.032... Ahhhh this seems very high!! After some reading here I decided to re-pitch a new US-05 dry yeast and give the primary a gentle swirl w/o any splashing to see if I can get this batch to drop at least a few more points. Later that day and the next day there was a little activity in the airlock (about 1 bubble every 2 mins). That brings us to today and my plan now. I want to go into a secondary with the hopes that this will re-start a little more fermentation. Of course I also want to do this to free up my primary for my next batch (Irish Red Ale). Does this seem reasonable or is there anything else that I can do? Thanks in advance!