Another stuck fermentation question?

[Acky]

I decided to try something a bit different with an Evil Dog DIPA kit.
I made a hop tea and added it to the wort (I've done this before and had good success) I thought I'd try different yeast - White labs wlp001. Everything was going great fermentation started quickly so I just left it for 3 weeks and decided to rack and the dry hop. After I racked I checked the gravity which was 1.020, the OG was 1.060 and the kit says it should go down to at least 1.010. I've done this kit a few times no issues.
After reading on the white labs site it says I should of used two packs of yeast, so sounds like I've underpitched?
I've had a taste of it and at this stage it's really good, no sweetness at all and a great bitterness.
I've decided to go ahead and dry hop and bottle next week.

The thing that's concerning me is will there be enough yeast in suspension to allow the beer to carbonate?
I always batch prime in my bottling bucket.

Any help/advice will be greatly received

 

[RM-MN]

You will have plenty of yeast to carbonate. The beer that I let sit in the fermenter for 9 weeks still had plenty.

 

[seabrew8]

This is your first post....how can it be "another" stuck fermentation question? 1.020? Probably should finish lower.

 

[Acky]

This is your first post....how can it be "another" stuck fermentation question? 1.020? Probably should finish lower.

it seems to be a topic that comes up frequently when I've done searches so that's the reason I put "another" in the title.
Maybe if you read it all and answer questions I asked and not try to be little me!
I know it should finished lower!

It was at 1.020 after 3 weeks and 1 week later was still at 1.020.
With white labs saying for a beer over 1.050 then 2 packs should be used.

Just don't want un carbonated beer when I bottled.

 

[Acky]

You will have plenty of yeast to carbonate. The beer that I let sit in the fermenter for 9 weeks still had plenty.

Thanks mate, that's all I needed to know :rockin:

 

[Sillybilly]

You will have enough yeast to carbonate but i would make sure its complete, the attenuation seems to be on the lower side. Are you sure your hydrometer is reading correctly?

 

[Acky]

You will have enough yeast to carbonate but i would make sure its complete, the attenuation seems to be on the lower side. Are you sure your hydrometer is reading correctly?

I've checked with hydrometer and refractometer.
I've done about 8 kits so far and all have went to plan, great beers.

I'm dry hopping for 10 days so it'll have been in FV for close to 6 weeks.
I'd hope it would be complete by that time.

I'll bottle as usual and report back.

Thanks again

 

[Acky]

I dry hopped it over a week ago and checked it on Sunday and there was still a lot of hops floating on the top.
I gave it a gentle stir to break up hoping it would sink and settle out.
I checked it last night again and there appears to be some activity, looks like the fermentation has restarted. Some bubbling and the hops/crust back on top again.
I checked gravity and it's now down to 1.014.
It tastes amazing, I've now got high hopes for this again..

It just goes to show patience is the best thing for home brewing, a valuable lesson learned.

On a similar note, the first batch I made didn't seem to be carbing up and I'd lost hope with it. I opened the last bottle I'd had stashed away last night and the carbonation and head on it was amazing - 4 months it had been in the bottle! I really didn't think that was possible...