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About 12 days ago I made my first extract brew following the Scottish 80 recipe.
My OG was slightly higher at 1050. I chucked the hydrometer in this morning and its showing 1020/1022 which I thought was a bit high. I gave the bucket a gentle rotation on it's bottom edge to see if it would rouse the yeast but after 9 hours it's still around the 1020 mark. I admit to using slightly more liquid malt than the recipe listed (2 x 1.5kg as opposed to 2 x 1.42kg) so could it be the single packet of dry yeast couldn't handle the extra sugars?
Not really wanting to bottle with the gravity so high but I suppose if it's done, it's done!
My OG was slightly higher at 1050. I chucked the hydrometer in this morning and its showing 1020/1022 which I thought was a bit high. I gave the bucket a gentle rotation on it's bottom edge to see if it would rouse the yeast but after 9 hours it's still around the 1020 mark. I admit to using slightly more liquid malt than the recipe listed (2 x 1.5kg as opposed to 2 x 1.42kg) so could it be the single packet of dry yeast couldn't handle the extra sugars?
Not really wanting to bottle with the gravity so high but I suppose if it's done, it's done!