Hello,
I recently brewed my first beer, a Russian River Bling Pig IPA clone. My S.G. was 1.072, which was about 10 points higher than the high range of the S.G. that the recipe listed. I didn't think much of it. After a week in primary I tested the gravity again and it was at 1.014. I added the oak and hops per the recipe. A week later I went to bottle and the gravity was still 1.014. Not thinking much of it I added the bottling sugar from the recipe pack, and bottled the batch.
In hindsight, I'm thinking it may not ever really carbonate and instead I'm going to end up with a sweet IPA (not sweet as in cool, sweet as in sweet). Sweet meads are in the 1.020 range; I tasted this stuff, its definitely noticeably sweet. So 2 questions:
1) Will I ever get carbonated regular beer from the bottles and
2) Did I create bottle bombs because there are so much fermentable sugars still available to the brew?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I recently brewed my first beer, a Russian River Bling Pig IPA clone. My S.G. was 1.072, which was about 10 points higher than the high range of the S.G. that the recipe listed. I didn't think much of it. After a week in primary I tested the gravity again and it was at 1.014. I added the oak and hops per the recipe. A week later I went to bottle and the gravity was still 1.014. Not thinking much of it I added the bottling sugar from the recipe pack, and bottled the batch.
In hindsight, I'm thinking it may not ever really carbonate and instead I'm going to end up with a sweet IPA (not sweet as in cool, sweet as in sweet). Sweet meads are in the 1.020 range; I tasted this stuff, its definitely noticeably sweet. So 2 questions:
1) Will I ever get carbonated regular beer from the bottles and
2) Did I create bottle bombs because there are so much fermentable sugars still available to the brew?
Thanks in advance for any help.