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tubby_shaw
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roger the dog
The Wherry's been going for 9 days now, I measured the S.G. yesterday & it's 1.021 so it's still a fair way off the the desired F.G. of 1.014 as stated in the instructions, however, I can see activity in the yeast cake at the bottom of the fermenting bin - every now and then a tiny bit of the cake seems to 'erupt' upwards, is this evidence that fermentation is still occurring ? There's no air lock on the top so I can't go by the bubbles.
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roger the dog
Just thought I'd post an update
After rousing the yeast as per Daab's advice there was slightly more activity but the gravity seemed to be sticking around the 1.020 mark. I decided to add some dry beer enzyme, rouse the yeast in the bottom again & tweaked up the heat setting on the immersion heating that's dangling in the FV. This seemed to have the desired effect & there was noticably more activity. Anyway, it now seems to have steadied out at 1.012 so today I've put it in the King keg (all apart from 4 bottles that I've filled) & its now going into the bedroom for a week.
I have to say that I'm not sure it's going to taste too great, the samples that I've tried when testing with the hydrometer had a rather unpleasant aftertaste to them which I'm putting down to the fact that I didn't remove the chlorine from the water prior to making up the kit (our tap water STINKS of the stuff), also, it has been in the fermentor for longer than I had wanted (3 weeks) so I'm not sure if that will have a detrimental effect on the final taste but I'm prepared to put this one down to experience.
Anyway, on with the next kit - Fixby Gold
After rousing the yeast as per Daab's advice there was slightly more activity but the gravity seemed to be sticking around the 1.020 mark. I decided to add some dry beer enzyme, rouse the yeast in the bottom again & tweaked up the heat setting on the immersion heating that's dangling in the FV. This seemed to have the desired effect & there was noticably more activity. Anyway, it now seems to have steadied out at 1.012 so today I've put it in the King keg (all apart from 4 bottles that I've filled) & its now going into the bedroom for a week.
I have to say that I'm not sure it's going to taste too great, the samples that I've tried when testing with the hydrometer had a rather unpleasant aftertaste to them which I'm putting down to the fact that I didn't remove the chlorine from the water prior to making up the kit (our tap water STINKS of the stuff), also, it has been in the fermentor for longer than I had wanted (3 weeks) so I'm not sure if that will have a detrimental effect on the final taste but I'm prepared to put this one down to experience.
Anyway, on with the next kit - Fixby Gold