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Tagged with fermentation stuck-fermentation
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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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Specific Gravity and fermentation of wine
I thought it would be fun to make grape jelly wine. My specific gravity started at 1.104. After day five fermentation appeared to stop at 1.08. I increased the temperature, added lemon juice and yeast ...
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Stopped fermentation wine
My fermentation seems to have stopped too early. I don’t have much experience (mostly some wine and mead making failed attempts) or proper gear like a hydrometer.
Here is what I did differently from ...
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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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Finicky Wyeast 3724 Stall
Looking for some useful suggestions. I’m a veritable noob when it comes to brewing. I’m on my second brew and already trying to experiment with my own recipe albeit sticking to extract / specialty ...
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Fermentation first time
I need help. First time brewing in my life and I made some mistakes as expected. This was a 1 gallon brew kit. First indication something was wrong was after pouring the wort into the 1 gallon ...
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How long to wait on Lalvin BM45 wine yeast in beer wort before giving up?
Brewed a 10 gallon batch of a saison wort at a super-dry mash temp (142-145 F). It's currently split between two conical fermenters, one of which has around 150 oz of a tart cherry puree. Rehydrated ...
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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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My first Brew gone wrong?
I attempted my first home brew from a kit last night, but underestimated how long the process would take so rushed it a little. After waking up this morning, I’ve realised I added the beer yeast into ...
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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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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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Low ABV, but lots of fermentation activity
I just brewed a jalapeno ipa and am stumped as to why the abv is so low.
The OG was 1.037. During the primary, the activity was very intense... like more bubbles than most other beers I've brewed. It ...
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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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