beerfountain
New Member
Hello All
I've just barrelled and bottled (only 8 bottles the rest went in my pressure barrel) a kit beer. It was Muntons Old Conkerwood Ale. I had left it in the fermenting bucket for three weeks, it looked like it the yeast had worked and I assumed all was fine.
Only thing is, I saved some beer to do my hydrometer reading, which, stupidly, I didn't actually look at until I had barreled and bottled everything, and the reading was 1.018. My original gravity which I took when I put the wort in the fermenter three weeks ago was 1.048. The beer itself is meant to be 5.0 abv so it obviously wasn't ready to bottle.
I'm a bit worried that the bottles and or barrel are going to explode or something, do you think it is safe to leave them and wait?
I've just barrelled and bottled (only 8 bottles the rest went in my pressure barrel) a kit beer. It was Muntons Old Conkerwood Ale. I had left it in the fermenting bucket for three weeks, it looked like it the yeast had worked and I assumed all was fine.
Only thing is, I saved some beer to do my hydrometer reading, which, stupidly, I didn't actually look at until I had barreled and bottled everything, and the reading was 1.018. My original gravity which I took when I put the wort in the fermenter three weeks ago was 1.048. The beer itself is meant to be 5.0 abv so it obviously wasn't ready to bottle.
I'm a bit worried that the bottles and or barrel are going to explode or something, do you think it is safe to leave them and wait?