Brewmaster irish velvet - stuck....

[nightsod]

Hey there.

I'm only about four kits into this hobby. I've had my first encounter with this problem.
The original kit called for kit + 1kg of sugar.
I've used 500g dsm ; 250gm white brewing sugar ; 250 gm of treacle. between 18-20 degrees for brewing.

It'd been in for ten days, had been silent for the last three of them. I opened her up expecting to get a reading of 1.006 as the rather
paltry instruction state. It's more like 1.17 / 1.18 for me... I gave the mix a gentle stir, upped to 20 - 22 degrees, waited a couple of days and today - no real change.

I was intending to bottle some, but won't if I can't get a trustworthy fg. So, as I now want to keg it, what would you do?

 

[Mark1964]

give it a few more days take a hydrometer reading if its the same keg it. It will be fine just not as strong as it should have been. What was the start gravity reading?

 

[nightsod]

Already gotten lazy about noting it down. It was slightly shy of the 'official' reading - I think: 1.40.

I'm going to leave it at 24degrees for a day or so and check the gravity then. I think I'll keg it anyhow as all surface activity has stopped on it.

 

[pittsy]

worse thing to do is have too high a temp can produce off flavours 22c is max really

 

[nightsod]

Ta.
My first stout, so <22 it is.

 

[jonnymorris]

give it a few more days take a hydrometer reading if its the same keg it.

Sound advice.