God Emporer BillyBrew
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I think something's up. I started my nut brown ale on Christmas Day. Used White labs british ale yeast with a vigorous starter. I put it into my secondary yesterday and it was sweet and low alcohol.
I don't use the hydrometer right, but it started with a 7 percent potential abv and ended up with it reading about 4 and a quarter. Less than 3 percent abv? I hope that makes sense, I used it, I just don't know how to get that gravity number by looking at the numbers on the Hydrometer. it was 70 degrees at the first check, but I didn't get the temp on my second check.
The house has been about 68-70, and I keep it by a window. For some reason, I forgot to keep a thermometer on top of my fermentor, like normal, so I don't know the fermenting temp.
It's in the secondary now, and I purposely stirred up the trub a bit when I transferred. So am I stalled? What should I do? Repitch? Move to warmer room? If it kicks in again, am I going to sorry it's in the secondary?
Please help! I'm trying to relax and have a homebrew, but this is stressing me out.
I don't use the hydrometer right, but it started with a 7 percent potential abv and ended up with it reading about 4 and a quarter. Less than 3 percent abv? I hope that makes sense, I used it, I just don't know how to get that gravity number by looking at the numbers on the Hydrometer. it was 70 degrees at the first check, but I didn't get the temp on my second check.
The house has been about 68-70, and I keep it by a window. For some reason, I forgot to keep a thermometer on top of my fermentor, like normal, so I don't know the fermenting temp.
It's in the secondary now, and I purposely stirred up the trub a bit when I transferred. So am I stalled? What should I do? Repitch? Move to warmer room? If it kicks in again, am I going to sorry it's in the secondary?
Please help! I'm trying to relax and have a homebrew, but this is stressing me out.