johnsonbrew
Well-Known Member
I am new to brewing kinda, some of you probably have seen some of my posts. I don't consider myself a novice as I have close to 50 brews under my belt but I have consistently had problems hitting my FG points. My latest was a vanilla bourbon stout. It finished after being in the primary at 1.025. It started at 1.063 so its right around 5% but pretty sweet in my opinion. I built a fermentation box and have a temp control in there with a small space heater so the temp in the box was always right about 68 to 70 F. The stick on thermometer never moved from 71F. In hind sight I should have shook it and let it sit a little longer but I am headed into my busy time of year and just need to get things done. I do primarily extract batches but only on a few occasions have I actually hit my FG points. What else can I do to bring these down to where they need to be?