Garlic_Mash
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I've tried everything. I waited, I roused, I warmed, I repitched (with a 2L starter of champagne yeast, which I had aerated thoroughly)
After none of that changed the SG as much as two points, I added some amylase.
... and that didn't do anything either. There it sits, at 1.030. If it had fingers, I'm sure the middle one would be raised in my direction. So...
I made a 1L starter (aerated vigorously) with nottingham, let that sit for a day, pulled .5 gal off the brew and put that together with the starter. I let that sit for a day, pulled 1 gallon off the brew and put that with what I put with the starter.
I'm keeping the lot at ~70, but it doesn't seem to be doing... anything.
For the record: the kit is the 'rogue blackened brutal bitter' from MB and my hydrometer was a lying robot (I did add 1/4 pound of peated malt to the steeping grains*) when I tried to get an OG. It was telling me .091 and that's just wildly off, given the taste of the sample.
The yeast was SP 4, kicked off in under 12 hours and was nicely active; but didn't blow foam like it would have, had the gravity actually been that high.
This is annoying me a lot more than it should, but I don't want to give up any more than I want to drink this stuff at a FG of .03.
Suggestions?
*sigh*
After none of that changed the SG as much as two points, I added some amylase.
... and that didn't do anything either. There it sits, at 1.030. If it had fingers, I'm sure the middle one would be raised in my direction. So...
I made a 1L starter (aerated vigorously) with nottingham, let that sit for a day, pulled .5 gal off the brew and put that together with the starter. I let that sit for a day, pulled 1 gallon off the brew and put that with what I put with the starter.
I'm keeping the lot at ~70, but it doesn't seem to be doing... anything.
For the record: the kit is the 'rogue blackened brutal bitter' from MB and my hydrometer was a lying robot (I did add 1/4 pound of peated malt to the steeping grains*) when I tried to get an OG. It was telling me .091 and that's just wildly off, given the taste of the sample.
The yeast was SP 4, kicked off in under 12 hours and was nicely active; but didn't blow foam like it would have, had the gravity actually been that high.
This is annoying me a lot more than it should, but I don't want to give up any more than I want to drink this stuff at a FG of .03.
Suggestions?
*sigh*