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How do you tell if your fermentation is stuck?
How long do you wait before taking corrective action if your fermentation doesn't start? Are there any other good ways to tell if it's just taking a while to get going?
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Nothing visible happening in fermenter after three and a half days - what should I do?
My first brew has been in the primary fermenter for three and a half days (brewed Saturday night, it's now Wednesday morning). It's in a plastic bucket fermenter with an airlock. There are no bubbles ...
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Wheat Ale "stuck" at 1.025?
I am trying to brew a stronger wheat ale, and after 9 days in primary, I seem to be stuck at 1.025. My OG was 1.070 and I pitched a smack pack of Wyeast Bavarian Wheat at about 70F. I had a very ...
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Fermentation still stuck after adding nutrients?
I'm brewing an imperial wit beer and it seems i have a problem with my wort beeing stuck in fermentation at 1.040.
My wort is wheat extract 3.4kg and 1kg candi sugar, steeped with some oat flakes, ...
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How can I restart fermentation on a stuck strong dark belgian ale?
What can we do to restart fermentation that got stuck over the winter?
Our club brewed about 7 gallons of this recipe in November. Primary went well, but then the weather got cold and the yeast went ...
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My cider stopped fermenting until I swished it around in the bucket a bunch, then continued. Is that normal?
My malted cider had been brewing after about a week in my plastic brewing bucket to the point where the little 'hat' thing in my airlock fell onto the 'neck' (no internal pressure).
I opened it up ...
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Sloe wine: going very slowly
Having started enough sloe gin this year to last a decade, I decided to use the rest of the fruit to brew some sloe wine. I'm new to brewing, and this might seem like an odd choice, but I have high ...
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Apple cider clearing up after just a few days
I did an experiment with a couple brands of baker's yeast and I know that my conditions aren't optimal, but as I said, it's an experiment and it will probably taste horrible. But still, my ingredients ...
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Best way to estimate remaining fermentable sugars?
This question is kind of for the chemists here, but I'm open to any ideas.
In this question Denny Conn, who is far more experienced than me, asserted that a beer is likely finished fermenting, ...
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First Time Airlock Won't Start
EDIT: I see from this post and from elsewhere on the Web that a bubbling airlock is apparently not an indicator for fermentation, as there could be a leaky lid. Regardless, doesn't a non-bubbling ...
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Air lock sunken water level
Twelve days ago I pitched my yeast in to two batches of ginger wine (different yeasts, different batches). For a few days fermentation was going well and the air lock was producing lots of bubbles and ...
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Bottle a beer that was stuck at fermentation?
6 Months ago I attempted a KBS Clone.
Beer uses chocolate, coffee, bourbon soaked oak.
I got 1.090 OG and got stuck at 1.032, but it tastes really good (Can chocolate make it appear higher?)
It's ...
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Stuck fermentation on wild fermented cider?
I pressed about 40 L worth of apple juice 12 days ago. Sweet cider was put into a carboy and foamed heavily after 3 or 4 days for about a week with consitent airlock activity.
In the past two days, ...
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My brew has stopped
I made some Young's Scottish Harvest Heavy from a can. I used cane sugar, which I prefer for colour and taste. My refractometer said 1.048 pre yeast. Ten days on, gravity seems to be static at 1.020-1....
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Can I bottle a beer at 1.028 gravity?
I have a beer which may or may have finished fermentation. I read about "stuck fermentation" and am wondering if I ended up with not enough fermentable sugars.
According to the calculator if i bottle ...
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