laserghost
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I brewed Ed Wort's Bee Cave Rye IPA 3 weeks ago, and now it's in the bottling bucket mixed with priming sugar, about to be bottled. I decided to bottle because I thought it had finished but when I took a gravity reading while racking, it was lower than I expected.
Recipe OG 1.064, actual 1.067. Recipe FG 1.010, actual OG 1.018.
I took a reading after one week in fermenter and it was 1.023. At week two I took another reading. I feel like I may have rounded down to 1.022, but it could have been right at 22 kinda hard to tell on the hydrometer. So I thought it had finished low because I pitched a yeast slurry to it from the previous batch that had sat in primary for one month. I forgot to proof the yeast and wake it back from its slumber, and assumed that was why I got low attentuation on this one.
So I dropped 5 points from week 2 to week 3. Do you think I'm alright and it's close enough, or do you think I'm still fermenting and could risk explosion? This is headed into bottles right after I hit post.
Recipe OG 1.064, actual 1.067. Recipe FG 1.010, actual OG 1.018.
I took a reading after one week in fermenter and it was 1.023. At week two I took another reading. I feel like I may have rounded down to 1.022, but it could have been right at 22 kinda hard to tell on the hydrometer. So I thought it had finished low because I pitched a yeast slurry to it from the previous batch that had sat in primary for one month. I forgot to proof the yeast and wake it back from its slumber, and assumed that was why I got low attentuation on this one.
So I dropped 5 points from week 2 to week 3. Do you think I'm alright and it's close enough, or do you think I'm still fermenting and could risk explosion? This is headed into bottles right after I hit post.