gravity question - coopers kit

[buhay]

I know I've read in this forum somewhere that coopers kits can often finish out at 1.020 but I can't find it.

Anyways I brewed a coopers english bitter kit 12 days ago. Just did it with 750 grams of dextrose. OG of 1.038 and kept it at a controlled temperature of 70F. 5 gallons.

I took a reading at 8 days and it was at 1.016 and checked it also today on day 12 and it's the same. My question is should I just leave it be and bottled in a couple days or should I try and gently stir the yeast up? Or maybe that will do nothing? It does taste pretty good from the sample I took but it's just a lot lower of an ABV then I was expecting.

 

[whoaru99]

IMO if it's been that long with no change I don't believe trying to rouse the yeast will do anything except make you wait for it to drop out again.

 

[duboman]

It's probably done. Was the recipe's OG 1.038 or is that what you read?

Whatever the OG of the recipe stated is what it should be, you got a bad reading from a poor mix of top off water and wort.

RDWHAHB! Package it !

 

[buhay]

IMO if it's been that long with no change I don't believe trying to rouse the yeast will do anything except make you wait for it to drop out again.

Thanks! Will bottle it when I have on the weekend. Cheers

 

[buhay]

It's probably done. Was the recipe's OG 1.038 or is that what you read?

Whatever the OG of the recipe stated is what it should be, you got a bad reading from a poor mix of top off water and wort.

RDWHAHB! Package it !

It was my reading. Should I even ask what that last part means? Lol cheers

 

[woozy]

It was my reading. Should I even ask what that last part means? Lol cheers

RelaxDontWorryHaveAHomeBrew!

Umm, why would you want to stir up the yeast? 1.016 steady for a few days is a perfectly respectable final gravity.

 

[buhay]

RelaxDontWorryHaveAHomeBrew!

Umm, why would you want to stir up the yeast? 1.016 steady for a few days is a perfectly respectable final gravity.

Was just a curious question!