Beernip
Well-Known Member
I brewed up a batch of Orfy's Hobgoblin II clone for my first all grain batch on 6/14. I seem to hit my mash numbers and received an OG of 1.056. I dumped in to a carboy through a strainer and shook. Pitched rehydrated notty yeast once temp was at 68. The next day fermentation took off went for a few days (@65). Thought it was done and let it sit for 3 weeks and went to bottle on the weekend of the 4th. While racking to my bottling bucket took a SG reading and was at 1.030?
So I moved it back (plus my bottling sugar that was mixed in already) on top of the original yeast cake and it took off again for a day and then stopped. I waited a few days and took another reading and it was now down to 1.026. I swirled the carboy every day for the next week but could get more then 1 bubble every few minutes.
Still thinking it wasn't done I repitched notty and waited another week. It was still at 1.026. So this last weekend my third AG batch (an Irish Red) was done (FG=1.015) fermenting and racked the Hobgoblin on top of the WPL004 yeast cake hoping to finish it off. I got no new activity for the week and check last night and is still at 1.026.
I'm out of ideas? Is this thing just done? My first AG batch I was using a questionable thermometer which have since switched but it said I was at 154 mash temp but could have been higher. I'd appreciate any suggestions on where to go from here.
So I moved it back (plus my bottling sugar that was mixed in already) on top of the original yeast cake and it took off again for a day and then stopped. I waited a few days and took another reading and it was now down to 1.026. I swirled the carboy every day for the next week but could get more then 1 bubble every few minutes.
Still thinking it wasn't done I repitched notty and waited another week. It was still at 1.026. So this last weekend my third AG batch (an Irish Red) was done (FG=1.015) fermenting and racked the Hobgoblin on top of the WPL004 yeast cake hoping to finish it off. I got no new activity for the week and check last night and is still at 1.026.
I'm out of ideas? Is this thing just done? My first AG batch I was using a questionable thermometer which have since switched but it said I was at 154 mash temp but could have been higher. I'd appreciate any suggestions on where to go from here.