Hello all, I'm in need of your collective expert advice yet again
I brewed my first lager (Extract kit from "The Home Brewery") on 8/28. Everything went well, based on the advice here I pitched 2 packets of S-23 at 50 degrees and put it in my fermenting fridge. After about 12 hours I had airlock activity, so I know it was working.
I was concerned because my damned fridge wouldn't get any warmer than about 45 degrees, well below what I was told to be "ideal" (50). So, I had a friend check on it 7 days later (I'm on vacation, great timing :cross and take a reading.
OG was 1.036, target FG is 1.009, and the reading he took on Tuesday was 1.022. He just checked it again, and it's still at 1.022, so about halfway.
He's moved it to a warmer area, about 65 degrees, hoping it will "wake up" and finish. Should I gently rock the fermenting bucket as well?
I'm guessing this would qualify as "stuck", and although he said it tasted pretty good (No butterscotch or "tang" tastes) I'm guessing I really need to get it closer to that 1.009 mark.
Thoughts/advice?
I brewed my first lager (Extract kit from "The Home Brewery") on 8/28. Everything went well, based on the advice here I pitched 2 packets of S-23 at 50 degrees and put it in my fermenting fridge. After about 12 hours I had airlock activity, so I know it was working.
I was concerned because my damned fridge wouldn't get any warmer than about 45 degrees, well below what I was told to be "ideal" (50). So, I had a friend check on it 7 days later (I'm on vacation, great timing :cross and take a reading.
OG was 1.036, target FG is 1.009, and the reading he took on Tuesday was 1.022. He just checked it again, and it's still at 1.022, so about halfway.
He's moved it to a warmer area, about 65 degrees, hoping it will "wake up" and finish. Should I gently rock the fermenting bucket as well?
I'm guessing this would qualify as "stuck", and although he said it tasted pretty good (No butterscotch or "tang" tastes) I'm guessing I really need to get it closer to that 1.009 mark.
Thoughts/advice?