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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)?
 
Yes, I used bottles water.
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.
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)?
Wdym proper restart?
 
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.
 
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.
I'll give it a go
 
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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