This cannot be right I need help

[Ukfan369]

Okay my dogfish 60minute clone has been fermenting one week today, I decided to go ahead and take a reading just to see how thing s are going. THe beer has no krausen on top and my hydrometer reading was 1.010 this just doesnt seem right I still have airlock action but how could my gravity be so low for a beer that should be high gravity? Is something wrong

 

[Coastarine]

"High gravity" refers to the starting gravity. 1.010 is a perfect FG for a fermented IPA. To figure out your ABV, use your original gravity and final gravity and use this: http://www.rooftopbrew.net/abv.php

 

[pdbreen]

What was the original gravity reading?

 

[Ukfan369]

wow that was a quick fermentation everyone has said to wait atleast two before bottling should i do that? I just added dry hops also.

 

[Ukfan369]

1.180 or maybe a little higher

 

[passedpawn]

1.180 or maybe a little higher

You so funny.

 

[Ukfan369]

Lol sorry 1.080

 

[HOOTER]

Lol sorry 1.080

That's like 88% attenuation. Possible, but not probable. Are you sure your gravity readings are accurate?

 

[Baldy_Beer_Brewery]

everyone has said to wait atleast two before bottling

You may listen to everyone, but you are on the yeast's schedule, not everyone's. Trust your hydrometer. If it stays at that gravity for three days, you are done and can bottle or rack to secondary.

 

[passedpawn]

You may listen to everyone, but you are on the yeast's schedule, not everyone's. Trust your hydrometer. If it stays at that gravity for three days, you are done and can bottle or rack to secondary.

I'm following the bald guy.

 

[GregT]

After a week, most fermentation should be done. But, as you said, you still have airlock action, so some fermentation is still occurring. The general two weeks isn't just for fermentation. Much of the later part is for allowing the yeast to clean up and for everything to settle.

 

[ajf]

Does your hydrometer float freely in the measuring cylinder? If it sticks to the sides, you can get some wildly inaccurate gravity readings.

-a.

 

[homebrewer_99]

I agree with everyone else. It's done, but wait a few days and take another reading to make sure it's stabilized at 1.010 before racking/bottling (whatever your process is).

 

[dontman]

That is a pretty big beer to rush. Fermentation may indeed be done but that kind of og is bound to throw off some fusels that I would want to mellow with the assistance of the yeast cake for at least three weeks.