Stuck Woodfords Wherry

[Neil54]

Hi all.
I recently put on a Woodfords Wherry. Didn't record starting gravity or final gravity. It did come with two yeast sachets.
Started fine. Finished bubbling a couple days earlier than expected.
Bottled it and the bottles didn't pressurise.
After coming across this forum I checked the gravity and it was, you guessed it, 1.020.
Chucked it all back in the fv with another yeast sachet, five days later 1.014.
Think this batch may be unrecoverable. May try again or go for something else.

 

[terrym]

Hi all.
I recently put on a Woodfords Wherry. Didn't record starting gravity or final gravity. It did come with two yeast sachets.
Started fine. Finished bubbling a couple days earlier than expected.
Bottled it and the bottles didn't pressurise.
After coming across this forum I checked the gravity and it was, you guessed it, 1.020.
Chucked it all back in the fv with another yeast sachet, five days later 1.014.
Think this batch may be unrecoverable. May try again or go for something else.

All Wherry kits now come with two 6g packets of yeast unless you have used very old stock. It was the single 6g yeast packet Wherrys that caused the stuck brew problems, the yeast itself is/was fine there just wasn't enough of it.
Anyway SG 1.014 is not too bad. You could encourage it to go a bit lower, Give it a gentle rousing without drawing any air into it. Otherwise try this
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/...s-for-dealing-with-stuck-fermentations.74910/And even if it goes no lower I would certainly bottle it and give it six weeks in bottle before I condemned it.
I bottled a Wherry at 1.014 and it all went !!

 

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I recently bottled a Wherry at 1015. After 4 weeks in bottle (2 warm, 2 cooler) it was pretty underwhelming to say the least. A futher 4 weeks (8 in total) and it's superb!