So I brewed up a Pale Ale kit from Brew House which is the concentrated wort kit (comes with 15L of wort) which I then add water and top it up to be 20L. OG was 1.060 and it got stuck at like 1.023. I used a dry saffale s05 for this batch. Its been at 1.023 for like 2 weeks now without any change. I've tried swishing around the beer, tried heating it up to 25° but still nothing.
The plan for this kit was to add raspberry for a nice refreshing summer beer so I've gone ahead and put in 1lb of boiled frozen raspberries and not immediately but probably within about 10-15 minutes I saw signs of fermentation from the raspberry juice/fruit start back up but then die down again after 24-36 hours at the same 1.023 FG. So I feel like the yeast is still in there and viable since it can still ferment the fruit, it just doesn't wanna ferment the beer any more. This is odd since I've done a lot of these kits and never had it finish this high before. I will say that this is my first time using S05 with it though.
I'm hoping the extra sweetness leftover will go well with the raspberry profile but I have no idea what a beer with a higher FG like that will taste like. Should I not get my hopes up? Do you guys think this ones gonna take kinda funky after its all said and done?
The plan for this kit was to add raspberry for a nice refreshing summer beer so I've gone ahead and put in 1lb of boiled frozen raspberries and not immediately but probably within about 10-15 minutes I saw signs of fermentation from the raspberry juice/fruit start back up but then die down again after 24-36 hours at the same 1.023 FG. So I feel like the yeast is still in there and viable since it can still ferment the fruit, it just doesn't wanna ferment the beer any more. This is odd since I've done a lot of these kits and never had it finish this high before. I will say that this is my first time using S05 with it though.
I'm hoping the extra sweetness leftover will go well with the raspberry profile but I have no idea what a beer with a higher FG like that will taste like. Should I not get my hopes up? Do you guys think this ones gonna take kinda funky after its all said and done?