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Missed that.I think this is heading to nutrients or water.
Homebrew has defeated me :(
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Missed that.I think this is heading to nutrients or water.
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Yes, I used bottles water.
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Yeast stop, if they are unable to carry on.
No more sugars
Not enough nutients
Too much sugar
Other chemical stoppers
Temp or other abuse
Yeast avaliable nitrogen
Has a propper restart been tried (whisk &. +2°c)?
No more sugars
Not enough nutients
Too much sugar
Other chemical stoppers
Temp or other abuse
Yeast avaliable nitrogen
Has a propper restart been tried (whisk &. +2°c)?
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Whose?
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I was rather hoping homebrew would be as simple as the instructions on the box. The instructions seems to be on the minimal/ optimistic side, to say the least. I have a couple of proper brewing books from charity shops but I'm loathed to try that if the simple ones don't work.
Wdym proper restart?
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The instructions are not enough TBH. Yeast are a living thing, not ingredients in a cake so things will drift off when you are not watching or have missed something that seems unimportant. The yeast didn't read the instructions.
Unusual for beer, but a good restart procedure would be to whisk a bit of air into the beer and turn the temp up 1 or 2°c.
Unusual for beer, but a good restart procedure would be to whisk a bit of air into the beer and turn the temp up 1 or 2°c.
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I'll give it a go
Just remember to clean AND sanitise EVERYTHING you shove in your bucket!!
Sorry if I’m repeating something but how long are you leaving it for? I recall that a lot of the kits I made at the start stated in the “instructions on the box” they’d be ready to drink in something stupid like 7 days. Are you taking readings over several days to be sure it’s stopped fermenting?
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I’m another newbie and have done a couple of kits and a few TC’s in the last 8 weeks. The hardest lesson has been patience..
Don’t give up on it
Don’t give up on it
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Two weeks in. I take readings every two days. It went down to 1.020 after a couple of days and hasn't moved since.
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What's it taste like?
If you're happy with the calibration of the hydrometer ( 1.000 @ 20C with pure water) I'd be tempted to start changing things. If you are comfortable sitting in your living room or bedroom, get rid of the heater, pitch a sachet of yeast, wrap it up in the blanket in your living room or bedroom and see what happens.
I suggested earlier that he make a starter from a new pack of yeast and then pitch that when it's at high krausen. Thinking that at 1020, it's pretty low, so new yeast might need a bit of a tail wind to get going and munch the rest of the fermentables.
