Coopers stout stuck?

[dickiedavis]

Hi All,

I have a coopers stout in the fv, has been there for 2 weeks at around 18 degrees. I brewed it with 1kg of BKE2, 300g of brown sugar and some yeast nutrient. I also used wilkos ale yeast instead of the kit yeast.

SG was 1044, but after 2 weeks it has only dropped to 1014 - is this stuck, do you reckon?

A gentle stir and a bit of a warm up needed?

Never had a coopers stick before...

 

[mattyhall22]

How come you swapped the yeast? The coopers stout yeast is normally an excellent worker. Give it a really gentle stir carefully not to splash it, then leave it for a few more days :

 

[dickiedavis]

Dropped the coopers yeast all over the kitchen floor. Luckily I had the wilkos stuff in the fridge. Never drink and brew kids...never drink and brew.

Will give it a stir tomorrow.

Cheers!

 

[serum]

I did mine at a similar temperature with roughly the same ingredients and it got stuck too. I left it quite a while and tried stirring but it wasn't going anywhere. I still bottled it though and it tastes great despite the problems I had. A few stuck when I was fermenting at about 18C.

I've had much better luck with brewing in a room that's slightly warmer (about 21C) but haven't tried the coopers again since then. Every beer since moving to a new room has been bang on target so maybe your temp is a little low for that beer.

 

[dickiedavis]

Bumped the temp up to 20 degs last night and I think it's bubbling a bit now. Will give it a gentle stir later and see what happens. Maybe it was getting cold overnight.

 

[Papa G]

brewed this before Christmas with 1kg dme, 500g dark brown sugar and tin of treacle. Brewed for 14 days and it also only reached 1.014, tested over 3 days and it turned out a lovely pint, so if it don't come down any further all is not lost.
PS this was with the coopers yeast.