Can i bottle?

[RyanKoP]

According to the kit I bought. The suggested FG is 1.010. Right now I am sitting at 1.020. Is that okay to bottle?

 

[Hammy71]

How long ago did you brew the beer? You should have at least constant hydro readings for 3 days before you bottle (unless you like cleaning up glass shards and sticky goo). 1.020 is a little high for most brews.

 

[Patro]

I've had extract batches finish there and bottled with no bottle bombs, but I'd make sure its not going to go any lower first. How long has it been fermenting?

 

[RyanKoP]

I brewed 12 days ago.

 

[Patro]

Dry yeast? What was the OG? The issue you could have from bottling now is waking the yeast up with priming sugar and having them eat any remaining fermentables. If there are still fermentable sugars in the beer then you could have bottles exploding (I've had that happen but I bottled after 7 days following kit instructions). You could try raising the temp a little bit to wake the yeast. I'd at least wait a couple days and check the gravity again. Its possiple the extra .01 is from unfermentables though. What type of beer is it? I think darker extracts could have more unfermantables, because its been darker extract batches that have finished high for me in the past.

 

[RyanKoP]

Dry yeast? What was the OG? The issue you could have from bottling now is waking the yeast up with priming sugar and having them eat any remaining fermentables. If there are still fermentable sugars in the beer then you could have bottles exploding (I've had that happen but I bottled after 7 days following kit instructions). You could try raising the temp a little bit to wake the yeast. I'd at least wait a couple days and check the gravity again. Its possiple the extra .01 is from unfermentables though. What type of beer is it? I think darker extracts could have more unfermantables, because its been darker extract batches that have finished high for me in the past.

It's a blonde. That has been fermenting at 92 degrees.