mandoman
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I'm on my first belgian trip. All grain dubbel recipe. I aerated for about 5 minutes until the amount of foam made me cut it early (air pump w/hepa). I pitched a 2L starter of wlp530 abbey ale yeast that was in date. I pitched and started fermentation at 64 degrees. I used a 6 gallon better bottle and didn't quite have the headspace I would've liked so I used a blow off hose. It fermented like mad nuts for about 5 days and on the second day i started ramping up the temp. By day 7 it was at 70. I took a gravity reading on day 7 and it's only at 1.030 (from about 1.076). It's still bubbling a bit (I replaced the blow off hose with an airlock). I'm wondering if I should add some more candi syrup (since I have some) or wait it out. I'm all for waiting but if it is stuck I don't want to miss my chance at having it finish lower. Any experience or ideas?