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DIBS
Joined: 18 Mar 2013 Posts: 24 Location: Slave Lake
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Link Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2016 5:03 pm Post subject: Won't Reach Anywhere Near Final Gravity. |
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Hey people
I have an issue with a Belgian Wit I recently made. Im made this exact recipe 2 months ago, and it was fantastic. So I though I'd make it again. Everything went great with the brew, besides the rolled oats being a little sticky and slowing down my sparge, but everything else was great. I reached my O.G of 1.045, and put it in my conical. Then aerated and pitched my yeast. I made a 4L starter with WLP400 yeast strain, and pitched it into my 30 Gallon wort. After 3 days, there was no more movement and my F.G was 1.03. Thats as low as it would go. So I drained the true out and made a new starter from the rest again to see if it would help. Nothing. I then bough more WLP400, made a 4L starter again, drained the true, aerated, and added new yeast again. It is doing nothing, again, 4 days later from re-pitch. F.G. is still 1.03. My question is, did I somehow end up with not enough fermentable sugar in the wort for my yeast do its thing? My boil was at 154'F, so it wasn't too hot. I know WLP400 is a very slow strain, but this is the first issue I have had like this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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g8tors
Joined: 05 Oct 2011 Posts: 211
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Link Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Have you checked to make sure your hydrometer is calibrated correctly. Or if you are using a refractometer make sure you are adjusting for the alcohol. Was the fermentation temperature, batch size, starter size the same as the first time you made this beer?
Scott
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DIBS
Joined: 18 Mar 2013 Posts: 24 Location: Slave Lake
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Link Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Scott,
We have checked out hydrometer. Usually every brew we check it with water at room temperature before we check the wort. Last batch was 20 Gallons, this batch was 30 gallons. Our starter size was obviously bigger, we ended up with a 4L starter as our yeast wasn't brand new, it was a few weeks old. But still the starter was more than efficient. We had the 6 packs of WLP400, with 400G of DME added into 4L of boiled water. Then put on a stir plate for about 36 hrs. It was going nuts in our 5L flask. Still confused as to what went wrong.
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Joined: 12 Dec 2010 Posts: 11116 Location: Ottawa, Canada
Drinking: Pub Ale, Electric Creamsicle, Mild, Pliny the Younger, Belgian Dark Strong, Weizen, Russian Imperial Stout, Black Butte Porter
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DIBS
Joined: 18 Mar 2013 Posts: 24 Location: Slave Lake
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Link Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Kal,
I'm not too sure what caused this. Even after all this, we re-pitched brand new yeast, and It never moved at all. Im at a loss for words.
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