coopers wheat beer with lots of malt? high fg

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thesalmon

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i am new to the site and this is my first post.

i am currently brewing a coopers wheat beer kit to which i added 1.5kg lme and .5kg dme topped up to about 22.5 liters.
got an og of about 1.046 that dropped to about 1.020 in about 3 days.
after a further 4 days i added more yeast (same strain)as the fermentation had not budged.
i left it a week and now the gravity is about 1.016. at all times the temp has been very stable between 20c and 22c. should i bottle soon?

also does anybody know about the attenuation of coopers yeast???

this is my second brew, the first i tryed was the same kit with 500g dme and 300g dextrose. this came out fine but a bit lite with a og of 1.034 and an fg of 1.008 which is why i loaded it up with malt this time.

any advise or suggestions would be great

many thanks
 
Check again in 2 days. If the gravity hasn't changed, it should be done. It doesn't surprise me at all that replacing the sugar with malt has resulted in a slightly higher FG.
 
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