Last two brews were......

[bracconiere]

So, Let the Flaming begin!!!!!! LOL

on who's part? those are still pretty high FG's!

 

[redrocker652002]

on who's part? those are still pretty high FG's!

Yes, they are still high, but they came down and that was what I was trying to say. If I waited a little longer, as has been suggested to me by many, including my wife, I would have had a bit better feeling about this. My plan is to take a gravity every week now until there are no changes. If they don't come down, then OK. I might add another packet of BRY to the last one as it seems to have stalled way more than I expected after only two weeks but we will see. Also, I need to see what is up with the Ispindel. It read 1.035 and the hydrometer showed 1.028 or so (bubbles made it tough to see the lines, but I am in the ball park).

I am still going to check the temp on my kettle thermometer just for the heck of it. Then at least I know where I am there.

Also, maybe I had too much sugar in the last one. I was supposed to get a OG of about 1.058 and I ended up with one of about 1.062. Maybe the yeast did all it could and ran out of juice, so to speak. Who knows, I am still learning.

Thanks for the reply, I truly do appreciate it. RR

 

[balrog]

(bubbles made it tough to see the lines, but I am in the ball park).

With fermented beer, there is always some dissolved CO2 in solution, which has a tendency to form around nice cool hydrometers inserted thereinto. Even tiny bubbles with cause hydrometer to float higher than it would normally sink, giving higher SG reading. Make sure to swirly-twirly the hydrometer, or go medieval on the sample by pouring roughly between two containers and/or whisking, to remove all dissolved CO2. This is typically more of an issue with cooler fermented (like 60F) samples. Ask me how I know. I've actually watched the hydrometer, placed carefully in the sample, slowly and inexorably, rise slowly, like a ghostly poltergeist is tugging it upward. I mean, I may have been drinking at the time, but, well, you know.

 

[redrocker652002]

With fermented beer, there is always some dissolved CO2 in solution, which has a tendency to form around nice cool hydrometers inserted thereinto. Even tiny bubbles with cause hydrometer to float higher than it would normally sink, giving higher SG reading. Make sure to swirly-twirly the hydrometer, or go medieval on the sample by pouring roughly between two containers and/or whisking, to remove all dissolved CO2. This is typically more of an issue with cooler fermented (like 60F) samples. Ask me how I know. I've actually watched the hydrometer, placed carefully in the sample, slowly and inexorably, rise slowly, like a ghostly poltergeist is tugging it upward. I mean, I may have been drinking at the time, but, well, you know.

That last part made me laugh, and I usually have a few while I do this as well. That might be part of the problem. LOL.

I am going to let both go another week or so. What the heck. The first one, if it settles in at about 1.015 or so, that isn't bad. Either way, I am going to drink them, or at least try. Why not, right?

 

[hotbeer]

Think of your Tilt as a relative measurement device. It'll get crud stuck to it while in the fermenter that will affect the angle it sits which will cause it to give a wrong reading even if it was properly calibrated. But likely by the time two weeks is over there isn't anything going on to continue crudding up your tilt. So whatever reading it's giving, if it's stable for several days, then your beer is probably finished.

Just check with a more typical hydrometer and then you'll know the real SG. But if you don't spin the bubbles off of it as suggested by another, then that reading too will be suspect and likely read too low an SG.

Sounds like you've had your beer in the FV for quite a few weeks though. So if you aren't at your true FG already then something is probably up besides the maybe inaccurate SG readings.

However your FG may not be the recipes FG and even if everything done right and exactly the same each time, I wouldn't quibble over a few points one way or the other.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

What we're your mash temps. Excuse me if I overlooked it.

 

[redrocker652002]

What we're your mash temps. Excuse me if I overlooked it.

Both floated between 150 and 154 if I remember correctly. They may have spiked a bit, but if so, it was only for a few minutes.

 

[redrocker652002]

Quick update. The first of my "bad brews" has been in the keg for about two weeks. I pulled a pint last night. It actually wasn't too bad. Not much taste to it, but better than I had expected. This is a ale recipe, so the bitterness was lower and I was hoping for more hop flavor, but all in all, not undrinkable. LOL. Second brew is still in the bucket. I have had eye surgery, so no heavy lifting for a bit. We will see how that one goes.