Coopers Blonde low ABV !!

[Cshep87]

Hoping to get a brew of coopers Canadian blonde bottles off before I go on vacation for a month but the ABV is pretty low around 3%.
Recipe: Coopers Canadian Blonde, brew enhancer 1, yeast from kit, 250g organic honey

It’s been fermenting for 7 days. OG was 1040 and FG for the last 2 days was 1017. Still seeing a bubble every 1.5 or 2 mins.

Will the alcohol content increase if I leave it a little longer or am I stuck at 3%? Still some pieces of yeast floating on top when I remove the lid, is this normal or should the yeast on top be dropping out?

 

[voltron]

To me cooper kits as well as MR beer tend to run lower and they end up around 3 to 4 percent. I have gotten them higher abv by using a different yeast that did not come with the kit and adding some other source of sugar like you did with the honey. but some kits say to let it ferment two weeks. Give it a few more days and see if you get a little more abv.

 

[Lefou]

One of my first extract brews came from a Coopers American lager kit. It was modified somewhat. The extract was pre-hopped, but I added extra Cascade and honey. Removed the included dry yeast and used S0-5 instead.
It made a fairly strong beer that ended up tasting like a hoppy amber ale. I followed the directions for fermentation but only changed the ingredients.
For something like this at such a low gravity 2-3 weeks of fermentation will be fine. Chunks of yeast at the top might be a bit unsightly, but shouldn't be a real problem. You will have yeast suspended in solution you won't see and that's ok, too. That active yeast will help carb your beer when the time comes to prime and bottle.

 

[Cshep87]

Thanks. I’m heading on vacation Oct 3rd for a month so will be bottling before then. Instructions call for 184g of priming sugar but I will likely toss the full 200g package in. Any concerns with this? I plan on dissolving the priming sugar in hot water and mixing when I transfer to my bottling bucket as opposed to adding sugar to each individual bottle