Issues with my second brew, looking for some suggestions.
Here's what happened. Brewed an all grain 5 g belgian imperial stout with 2 packs of T-58. Came to be 1.090, after adding candi sugar after high krausen it should have been 1.099. After two weeks being in primary I began to check gravity, it was 1.040 over seveal days. I decided to repitch. Hydrated 1 pack of T-58, then created a starter on a stir plate over 24 hours where i intermittently added some of the fermented beer to acclimate the yeast. Stepped things up to 3/4 gallon and let it rest one more day. Transferred my beer off the yeast and into a secondary ontop of my new starter. It's been a week now and my beer is only down to 1.037, with zero airlock action now (i know...). I'll take a reading in another week and see if anything changes. If it hasn't, I think I can conclude it is not moving. So what to do then? I really just want this beer done with and in the bottle at this point, but not if it means i end up with a bottle bomb.
Temp is resting at 73 now. I had ramped it up a bit in the past without much luck. This being my first high gravity there are to mistakes I think I made-- gave no yeast nutrient, probably didnt oxygenate enough
If in a week there is no movement, I can conclude there are 3 options:
1) No more fermentables - safe to bottle
2) Still fermentables but yeast quit/stalled - I will have a saison cake I can pitch on top of in two weeks, but that would be my final corrective attempt
3) Still fermentables but I can't get it down, if I did under aerate before is there anything else to do now?
Here's what happened. Brewed an all grain 5 g belgian imperial stout with 2 packs of T-58. Came to be 1.090, after adding candi sugar after high krausen it should have been 1.099. After two weeks being in primary I began to check gravity, it was 1.040 over seveal days. I decided to repitch. Hydrated 1 pack of T-58, then created a starter on a stir plate over 24 hours where i intermittently added some of the fermented beer to acclimate the yeast. Stepped things up to 3/4 gallon and let it rest one more day. Transferred my beer off the yeast and into a secondary ontop of my new starter. It's been a week now and my beer is only down to 1.037, with zero airlock action now (i know...). I'll take a reading in another week and see if anything changes. If it hasn't, I think I can conclude it is not moving. So what to do then? I really just want this beer done with and in the bottle at this point, but not if it means i end up with a bottle bomb.
Temp is resting at 73 now. I had ramped it up a bit in the past without much luck. This being my first high gravity there are to mistakes I think I made-- gave no yeast nutrient, probably didnt oxygenate enough
If in a week there is no movement, I can conclude there are 3 options:
1) No more fermentables - safe to bottle
2) Still fermentables but yeast quit/stalled - I will have a saison cake I can pitch on top of in two weeks, but that would be my final corrective attempt
3) Still fermentables but I can't get it down, if I did under aerate before is there anything else to do now?
