FG quite high

[BPal75]

Beer is good

 

[amaurer]

2 weeks in bottles... reasonably well carbed, tastes GREAT!

Definitely do not regret the sugar addition, I can't taste any negatives.

 

[FarmBoy530]

So with the high fg. And the drying effect from adding sugar I could see this
Working for a red ale. I want to know a little more, not just taste great! What is it like?

 

[amaurer]

I drank the whole case over ~2 months and various stages of age and refrigeration. The verdict is that it was good, but not perfect. Definitely tasted like beer, and definitely got you drunk... but it had a certain "extra" taste that was not quite welcome.

I don't have the palette to describe exactly what was amiss, but it had a sweet taste hidden in it kinda similar to the way the malt extract smelled. Almost like it was mostly beer but with a bit of unfermented ME swirled in. Everyone enjoyed it, but I was sometimes distracted by whatever that was.

No idea if it was the sugar, or the stuck fermentation, or what. I thought it was good at the time, but it can't compare to the subsequent beer I made.

 

[SkiNuke]

After reading what happened. I would guess that the first time was not a stuck fermentation, but the sugars left over were too complex for the yeast. The only reason you "squeezed" a couple extra points out of it when you added the sugar is because you had more alcohol in it (which brought down the overall density). You would have gotten the same result if you had dumped some vodka into the beer instead of adding sugar.

But you have it right, it's beer! I'm glad it turned out decent.