Hi all,
I'm trying to decide whether my beer is done fermenting or if I need to pitch yeast more yeast. The beer is an oatmeal porter partial mash, had a ~1.06 OG, and used yeast starter from a previous batch. After two weeks the FG was only 1.03, I warmed it for a week to 73 degrees, still no change, added yeast energizer, and after 4 weeks, it's still holding steady at 1.03. Nevertheless, the beer is very dry for having such a high FG, which makes me think that my mashing went awry and yielded a low amount of fermentables, which are now exhausted.
Some additional details are that I mashed at about 152 F, but it turned out that not all of the grain was submerged somehow. The temperature probably dove to the mid 140s after 70 minutes or so. I sparged near 170 and got what I thought was about 1.04 OG. I also forgot to add some of the specialty grains to the mash (choco malt), so instead added them to the boil, along with some extract to bring OG up to 1.06.
Any thoughts on my next course of action (pitch or bottle?)
Thanks!!
pete
I'm trying to decide whether my beer is done fermenting or if I need to pitch yeast more yeast. The beer is an oatmeal porter partial mash, had a ~1.06 OG, and used yeast starter from a previous batch. After two weeks the FG was only 1.03, I warmed it for a week to 73 degrees, still no change, added yeast energizer, and after 4 weeks, it's still holding steady at 1.03. Nevertheless, the beer is very dry for having such a high FG, which makes me think that my mashing went awry and yielded a low amount of fermentables, which are now exhausted.
Some additional details are that I mashed at about 152 F, but it turned out that not all of the grain was submerged somehow. The temperature probably dove to the mid 140s after 70 minutes or so. I sparged near 170 and got what I thought was about 1.04 OG. I also forgot to add some of the specialty grains to the mash (choco malt), so instead added them to the boil, along with some extract to bring OG up to 1.06.
Any thoughts on my next course of action (pitch or bottle?)
Thanks!!
pete