Help needed with a possible stuck beer

[TallahasseeBrew]

I brewed a belgian honey ale kit from my lhbs. It has a target og of 1.080, which I hit on the nose. Kit had 4 pounds of light lme, a pound of candi sugar, 2 pounds of honey, some spices (it is a "private stock" kit so I dont know what kind), and specialty grains (again, didnt say what). Its been at 1.020 sg for a week. It may be normal, idk. Im 90 percent sure it used s 05 yeast, but not certain. Kit was brewed January 11th fwiw.

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[TallahasseeBrew]

Ok, so after thinking of it, it does have nearly 7.5% abv, so it may be normal, just that sg seems high

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[alphagolf]

Sometimes honey is a little bit problematic. I do beers with 2 lb of honey and they take a full 3-4 weeks to ferment all the way out. I tried to rush one a while back and ended up with bottle bombs so you really have to be patient.

Without knowing how much yeast you pitched I recommend swirling the fermenter a bit to rouse the yeast and try to get things going. Also, can increase the fermenter temperature by a few degrees to see if that helps. Be prepared to have this in the fermenter till mid February before it is done. Right now you are at 75% apparent attenuation so you are likely about done but it could creep down a few more points.

 

[TallahasseeBrew]

I was gonna let it go for a while anyway, probably bottle or keg it end of February. I pitched one packet of yeast, bit I'll give it a swirl. It tastes good, so at least theres that. Thanks for the advice

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[masskrug]

Did the kit or your LHBS say what the FG should be? Most of my beers stall out around 1.020. I haven't had an issue with bottle bombs. If it has been there for a week, bottle it.

 

[TallahasseeBrew]

Ok, so I checked, yeast was one packet of safbrew t58

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[TallahasseeBrew]

Did the kit or your LHBS say what the FG should be? Most of my beers stall out around 1.020. I haven't had an issue with bottle bombs. If it has been there for a week, bottle it.

as much as i do like my LHBS, i do find their kits to be lacking in the instruction department. They don't list the target FG or ABV usually. for this kit they did say 8% abv, and this is at almost 7.5 so I do think it is ok, but i'll ask them tomorrow, i do need to go get some more beverage tubing.