Hey all,
I'm still new at this hobby, and I'm looking for some help.
I brewed a Brown Ale on May 23rd. Everything seems like it was going fine on my brew day except for my pre boil gravity coming in to low so I did a 90 min boil instead of 60. Doing this got the wort to 1.055og. I fermented with WLP007 (2 vials) for 10 days at 67f. On day 10 I took a reading and see my gravity was at 1.030. so I let it go for a few more days and it had not changed. I called my LHBS and was told to rouse the yeast cake and raise the temp to 72f. Then 2 days later the gravity hasn't changed. SO I contacted the LHBS was told to repitch more yeast, its still at 1.030. Finally I was told to try some yeast energizer and here we are 72 hours later and I'm still at 1.030.
Gain Bill -
9.5lbs Marris Otter
1lbs Crystal 60
.25lbs Chocolate Malt
1.6oz Black Patent
Mash was to be 152f however it fell to 146f.
I shook the carboy for 2 min to aerate.
I calibrated the refractometer with distilled water prior to using it on the brew day.
Does anyone else have any solutions? Any thoughts on what did I do wrong? Should I just consider this batch a bust and dump it?
Thanks,
Steve
From Phoenix
I'm still new at this hobby, and I'm looking for some help.
I brewed a Brown Ale on May 23rd. Everything seems like it was going fine on my brew day except for my pre boil gravity coming in to low so I did a 90 min boil instead of 60. Doing this got the wort to 1.055og. I fermented with WLP007 (2 vials) for 10 days at 67f. On day 10 I took a reading and see my gravity was at 1.030. so I let it go for a few more days and it had not changed. I called my LHBS and was told to rouse the yeast cake and raise the temp to 72f. Then 2 days later the gravity hasn't changed. SO I contacted the LHBS was told to repitch more yeast, its still at 1.030. Finally I was told to try some yeast energizer and here we are 72 hours later and I'm still at 1.030.
Gain Bill -
9.5lbs Marris Otter
1lbs Crystal 60
.25lbs Chocolate Malt
1.6oz Black Patent
Mash was to be 152f however it fell to 146f.
I shook the carboy for 2 min to aerate.
I calibrated the refractometer with distilled water prior to using it on the brew day.
Does anyone else have any solutions? Any thoughts on what did I do wrong? Should I just consider this batch a bust and dump it?
Thanks,
Steve
From Phoenix