Sigh...1.038 after 18 days of fermentation

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So I hit 1.010 haha. Tastes ok. Not as sweet. More or less warm beer thats meant to be cold.

Heres what I did...

I swirled it up ever so lightly. Just enough to disturb the yeast cake at the bottom. Left it alone for two days. Check it with a hydrometer 1.010 and a refractormeter 1.034. So I am going to bottle in a day or so.


So thats whats up with that.




Just for fun. I bottled some the same day as I racked into the secondary and primed it. Left it alone for 2 weeks and opened it just now. Great stuff. Not bitter. Good carbonation. Good thick head although it did not have a lot of retention. Little chill haze. Over all I am happy with it.


I am bottling the other 5 gallons or so tomorrow.

Maybe the yeast were able to replicate enough after being depleted and swirling kicked them back up into suspension enough to do their thing. Now, got get a proper set of instruments and keep on brewing. Congrats on the beer!