Too high an FG?

[inturnldemize]

Is it dangerous to bottle a beer whose FG is not what it's suppose to be at?

Example: The recipe mentions an FG of 1.012 but after taking a hydrometer reading on 3 consecutive days, the gravity remains at 1.022. By rule of thumb, the beer has finished fermenting, so what would happen if I would bottle at 1.022? Bottle bombs or will everything be fine? Just sweet beer?

 

[homebrewdad]

A lot of extract beers (particularly LME ones) get stuck at around 1.020. If the gravity is stable, you shouid be fine. Beer may be a touch sweet.

If the gravity is NOT stable, you are risking botle bombs - aka shards of broken glass projected at high speed, followed by spilled beer.

 

[bobeer]

Brewdad has it right. As long as the FG isn't dropping still you should be good to bottle. I bottled a batch about 4 weeks ago that was 1.020 and they're all fine. It's not all that sweet just not as low as I wanted it.