BrewGator
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Greetings,
I've browsed these forums for a while, and now, on my first ever batch, have encountered a problem with which i need some experienced advice. Here's the rundown:
Imperial Stout with original gravity of 1.075 (target final gravity 1.015 - 1.017)
Fermented 6 days in food-grade plastic bucket w/ airlock - visible fermentation
Siphoned, filtered and transferred to glass carboy - 13 days secondary fermentation
While transferring to bottling bucket (after washing, rinsing and sanitizing ~50 bomber bottles from the bar i work at), we took our final gravity check just to make sure....
1.039....after nearly 3 weeks. This is in Gainesville, FL....we had a cold front or two, but for the most part its 75 - 80 during the day and 50 - 55 most nights. It was stored in an interior closet.
Everything was religiously sanitized with Five-Star/Io-Star iodine solution, properly diluted.
This was one week ago. On the advice of the local homebrew store (who I am increasingly coming to doubt), I siphoned to a bucket, cleaned and sanitized the carboy, siphoned back and pitched more yeast. Tonight, 6 days later, the gravity has not made a noticeable change.
I simply do not know what to do from this point. The warm, uncarbonated product tastes pretty decent (we sampled the contents of the hydrometer after checking gravity). Is there any way to continue fermentation? Or do I bottle?
An imperial stout with ~4.5% ABV is not an imperial stout at all....
I've browsed these forums for a while, and now, on my first ever batch, have encountered a problem with which i need some experienced advice. Here's the rundown:
Imperial Stout with original gravity of 1.075 (target final gravity 1.015 - 1.017)
Fermented 6 days in food-grade plastic bucket w/ airlock - visible fermentation
Siphoned, filtered and transferred to glass carboy - 13 days secondary fermentation
While transferring to bottling bucket (after washing, rinsing and sanitizing ~50 bomber bottles from the bar i work at), we took our final gravity check just to make sure....
1.039....after nearly 3 weeks. This is in Gainesville, FL....we had a cold front or two, but for the most part its 75 - 80 during the day and 50 - 55 most nights. It was stored in an interior closet.
Everything was religiously sanitized with Five-Star/Io-Star iodine solution, properly diluted.
This was one week ago. On the advice of the local homebrew store (who I am increasingly coming to doubt), I siphoned to a bucket, cleaned and sanitized the carboy, siphoned back and pitched more yeast. Tonight, 6 days later, the gravity has not made a noticeable change.
I simply do not know what to do from this point. The warm, uncarbonated product tastes pretty decent (we sampled the contents of the hydrometer after checking gravity). Is there any way to continue fermentation? Or do I bottle?
An imperial stout with ~4.5% ABV is not an imperial stout at all....