Hi all,
I'm trying to decide if I can bottle a 5gal batch of beer, recipe below. It's a Golden Strong Ale with an OG of 1.099, which fermented out to 1.005. I racked to secondary onto 1.5lb of honey mixed with a small amount of water, which brought the gravity up to 1.011. It has been 5 days now, and the gravity has not changed, holding at 1.011, and sitting at 80deg. I'm concerned about bottling, for two reasons: one, if I bottle and it starts fermenting I'm pretty much guaranteed bottle bombs, second, if it doesn't ferment any more, then I have flat beer. Should I let it continue to sit in secondary and see if anything else happens, or pitch more yeast?
Recipe:
12lb pilsner
3lb sugar
1.5lb honey in at secondary
2.6oz Styrian Goldings
2.5oz Saaz
Yeast: Wyeast 3522 in a 3L starter
I'm trying to decide if I can bottle a 5gal batch of beer, recipe below. It's a Golden Strong Ale with an OG of 1.099, which fermented out to 1.005. I racked to secondary onto 1.5lb of honey mixed with a small amount of water, which brought the gravity up to 1.011. It has been 5 days now, and the gravity has not changed, holding at 1.011, and sitting at 80deg. I'm concerned about bottling, for two reasons: one, if I bottle and it starts fermenting I'm pretty much guaranteed bottle bombs, second, if it doesn't ferment any more, then I have flat beer. Should I let it continue to sit in secondary and see if anything else happens, or pitch more yeast?
Recipe:
12lb pilsner
3lb sugar
1.5lb honey in at secondary
2.6oz Styrian Goldings
2.5oz Saaz
Yeast: Wyeast 3522 in a 3L starter