Finishinglast
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Hey everybody,
So I brewed my first batch of beer on the 23rd of December. It's a LHBS Extract IPA.
Due to the fact my apartment was being repainted and recarpeted, I did this 120 miles away at my parents house.
My beer is coming up on the three week mark in the primary. I'm headed down to bottle this week. However, my apparent fg is not as low as one would hope. Here's the recipe:
Malt Extract: Alexanders Pale 9 lbs.
Grain Bill: Crystal 10L 8 oz
Crystal 60L 4 oz
Victory malt 4 oz
Hopping Schedule:
#1 Columbus (13.4%) 1.6 oz 60 min
#2 Cascade (7.4%) 1.0 oz 15 min
#3 Cascade 1.0 oz 0 min
Starting Gravity: 1.067
Fermentation Temp: 65-75 degrees F
Yeast: 1 Packet of Nottingham, 1 packet of US-05 (the actual recipe called for wyeast 001, but the LHBS worker suggested I used the Not and US-05 since I'm a noob).
I aerated the wort through pouring back and forth several times and
I pitched the two packets of rehydrated yeast at 67 degrees.
I didn't take an OG reading and from what I've seen on here, with extracts you are pretty much going to get close to the mark.
The primary (bucket) sat in a 64-67 degree room and had a pretty steady airlock bubble after 5 hours, and for another 60 after that.
I took a hydrometer reading when that had abated and got a reading of 1.030.
I've taken two more readings this week and it seems to have stabilized at 1.023.
My question is what now? Obviously I wish I had gotten down below 1.020. Am I stuck here?
So I brewed my first batch of beer on the 23rd of December. It's a LHBS Extract IPA.
Due to the fact my apartment was being repainted and recarpeted, I did this 120 miles away at my parents house.
My beer is coming up on the three week mark in the primary. I'm headed down to bottle this week. However, my apparent fg is not as low as one would hope. Here's the recipe:
Malt Extract: Alexanders Pale 9 lbs.
Grain Bill: Crystal 10L 8 oz
Crystal 60L 4 oz
Victory malt 4 oz
Hopping Schedule:
#1 Columbus (13.4%) 1.6 oz 60 min
#2 Cascade (7.4%) 1.0 oz 15 min
#3 Cascade 1.0 oz 0 min
Starting Gravity: 1.067
Fermentation Temp: 65-75 degrees F
Yeast: 1 Packet of Nottingham, 1 packet of US-05 (the actual recipe called for wyeast 001, but the LHBS worker suggested I used the Not and US-05 since I'm a noob).
I aerated the wort through pouring back and forth several times and
I pitched the two packets of rehydrated yeast at 67 degrees.
I didn't take an OG reading and from what I've seen on here, with extracts you are pretty much going to get close to the mark.
The primary (bucket) sat in a 64-67 degree room and had a pretty steady airlock bubble after 5 hours, and for another 60 after that.
I took a hydrometer reading when that had abated and got a reading of 1.030.
I've taken two more readings this week and it seems to have stabilized at 1.023.
My question is what now? Obviously I wish I had gotten down below 1.020. Am I stuck here?