I built a mash tun probably a year ago, bought a turkey fryer, aaaaand I didn't get to brew for quite sometime. So I'm a little rusty, I've done probably 6-8 partial mash and extract recipes and haven't ever really had a bad batch.
So for my first AG batch I went to the brewstore that just opened (which is a great place btw, The Hop Shoppe in Bloomington, IL) and the owner set me up with a brown ale recipe and all the ingredients. Brewing seemed to go pretty well, no major hiccups but my fermentation is either stuck or something else is going on. I hit target OG right on the money at 1.052, the recipe says FG should be 1.013. About a week ago I was ready to bottle but I was sitting at 1.025 after 4 weeks in the primary. So I transferred back to the primary and gave the yeast cake a swirl. It seemed to have came back to life with a little krausen and some good airlock activity for another couple days. I just checked again and I'm now at 1.020.
My thought is to let it ride for another week or so to see if the gravity keeps dropping but I'm a little afraid to leave it sitting on the yeast cake much longer. So what do you old pros say? Secondary or leave it alone?
So for my first AG batch I went to the brewstore that just opened (which is a great place btw, The Hop Shoppe in Bloomington, IL) and the owner set me up with a brown ale recipe and all the ingredients. Brewing seemed to go pretty well, no major hiccups but my fermentation is either stuck or something else is going on. I hit target OG right on the money at 1.052, the recipe says FG should be 1.013. About a week ago I was ready to bottle but I was sitting at 1.025 after 4 weeks in the primary. So I transferred back to the primary and gave the yeast cake a swirl. It seemed to have came back to life with a little krausen and some good airlock activity for another couple days. I just checked again and I'm now at 1.020.
My thought is to let it ride for another week or so to see if the gravity keeps dropping but I'm a little afraid to leave it sitting on the yeast cake much longer. So what do you old pros say? Secondary or leave it alone?