Hello everybody,
I've been a big beer lover for years and I've started brewing at home almost a year ago. So far I brewed about 7-8 batches, 20 liters each.
I experimented with a Belgian Style Reddish Ale, Porter, Stout, and just yesterday I've bottled an IPA.
The first two brews were the Belgian ales, and it was almost a year ago, both had a bit over 1.06 OG and something like 1.017 FG, which as far as I remember gave me around 6.5ABV. I did not brew between June-September. When I I got back to brewing in October I made two batches of porter, both had an OG of 1.05 or a bit higher, and an FG of 1.022 or so. The Stout which I bottled just two weeks ago, had an OG of 1.051 and FG 1.026.
It seems like since october all my FG were between a little bit high to really high.
I must say I haven't done any secondary fermentation, all beers fermented 7-14 days (the belgian ales needed only 7 days to get to 1.017). I bottle when I see there are not bubble in the airlock, or a bubble once every few minutes. The temperature in all fermentations was 17-23c, most of the time it was stable on 20.
I compared my hydrometer to others and it seems fine.
MY problem is that the FG just seems to be too high always, I know Stout has more unfermentables then an IPA, but FG 1.026 for Stout and 1.022 for IPA just seem way too high.
Any help or suggestions will be highly appreciated.
Cheers,
Alexey
I've been a big beer lover for years and I've started brewing at home almost a year ago. So far I brewed about 7-8 batches, 20 liters each.
I experimented with a Belgian Style Reddish Ale, Porter, Stout, and just yesterday I've bottled an IPA.
The first two brews were the Belgian ales, and it was almost a year ago, both had a bit over 1.06 OG and something like 1.017 FG, which as far as I remember gave me around 6.5ABV. I did not brew between June-September. When I I got back to brewing in October I made two batches of porter, both had an OG of 1.05 or a bit higher, and an FG of 1.022 or so. The Stout which I bottled just two weeks ago, had an OG of 1.051 and FG 1.026.
It seems like since october all my FG were between a little bit high to really high.
I must say I haven't done any secondary fermentation, all beers fermented 7-14 days (the belgian ales needed only 7 days to get to 1.017). I bottle when I see there are not bubble in the airlock, or a bubble once every few minutes. The temperature in all fermentations was 17-23c, most of the time it was stable on 20.
I compared my hydrometer to others and it seems fine.
MY problem is that the FG just seems to be too high always, I know Stout has more unfermentables then an IPA, but FG 1.026 for Stout and 1.022 for IPA just seem way too high.
Any help or suggestions will be highly appreciated.
Cheers,
Alexey
