FG1017

[jonboymentalhealth]

Hi my bathams clone has been in the fermentor for nearly three weeks now and refuses to budge below 1017, ive moved it somewhere warmer gently stirred it nothing.

My question is it started at 1050 so is at 4.1% my plan for friday is to transfer to another bucket with camden tablets and finings allow to clear then pop in a corny and force carb. Is there any problem with this technique or whith the FG being higher than the 1011 I was expecting?? :hmm:

 

[Mark1964]

everythings ok apart from the campden tablets

 

[jonboymentalhealth]

how come no camden tablets??

 

[Wendy1971]

ive never heard of anyone using campden in beer brewing thought they were for wine making

 

[jonboymentalhealth]

I was led to beleive the reason they werent used was because of priming with sugar and it would kill the yeast but if you are force carbing in a keg there is no need for the yeast to be kept alive... :drunk:

 

[Aleman]

Don't get confused with winemaking and beer making . . . We don't worry about putting the yeast to sleep when ready to keg, with no sugar in there apart from the residual non fermentable dextrins the yeast are going to lie dormant at the bottom of the keg. . . In winemaking the sugars added to back sweeten a dry wine to medium . . .will cause the yeast to wake up and have a party . . . the campden tablets are used to stop that!

 

[jonboymentalhealth]

ok thanks for that do you think it will mater that the fg is 1017?? :

 

[Aleman]

It didn't for my Mild which finished at 1.017 from 1.036 . . . Bottled it and it is carbonating nicely

 

[jonboymentalhealth]

great stuff i'll leave to the weekend then add finings :

 

[cnelsonplumber]

Love to know how the brew turns out as Bathams is one of my favourite beers, luckily the brewery is a stones throw away. Good luck.