FG seems way off, maybe beer is not done yet?

[powerpunk5000]

So im making a carrot cake sour ( sounds gross but actually just pulled a sample and its pretty good)

so the recipe I added was

5.5 lbs of light Pilsen LME

then used lactobusillius by omega labs to kettle sour for 2 days

put back on boiled for one hour and added 1 oz willamette at 20 mins

.5 lbs of brown sugar at 5 mins
1lbs of lactose at 5
2 cinnamon sticks at 5

then pitched safeale us 05

then after 2 days added half a gallon of 100% carrot juice by bolt house farms the only ingredient was carrot juice

it has 13g of sugar per serving and 6 servings total which would be 78 g of sugar

so today I pulled a sample ( its been 5 days with the safeale us 05, and 3 with the carrot juice added)

now I only did take a gravity reading of the beer before the carrot juice and not after and it was 1.050

today pulled a reading and it was only reading 1.020 or 1.018

 

[grampamark]

Reaching .020 from .050 in 5 days sounds about right for US-05. I’d give it another 5-7 days before taking another sample. The 78 g of sugar in the carrot juice is less than 3 oz. You didn’t add many gravity points there.

 

[downzero]

It's nowhere near done, give it 3-4 more days and check, and then wait 2 more days and check again.

 

[pdxal]

Give it more time. I don't even bother checking gravity sooner than 2 weeks.
Are you checking gravity with hydrometer or refractometer? Refractometer gravities are incorrect after fermentation has started and need to be corrected with one of the online calculators.

 

[Calder]

Refractometer or Hydrometer? Refrac needs a conversion.

Any preservatives in the carrot juice.

Low Ph makes yeast go slow (if it works at all).

 

[powerpunk5000]

Refractometer or Hydrometer? Refrac needs a conversion.

Any preservatives in the carrot juice.

Low Ph makes yeast go slow (if it works at all).

Hydrometer but 3 days later its still at 1.020 so I guess it's done