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I am currently in the process of brewing a Coopers stout with 250g Light Malt, 500g Dark Malt, 250g Corn Syrup and 250g Rich Brown sugar also added some golding hops (used yeast provided with can). My initial SG was 1045 and it has now been on for 7 days but the FG has dropped to 1016 and has stopped there (taken measurments the last couple of days) does this sound like it has ready for bottling given that the final alcohol content is only jsut 4%?
Cheers
Mmmmm. It does seem a bit high to me. Allowing for a drop of 75% in the SG (which is a rough approximation), you should be looking around the 1011 mark or a bit lower.
Benji,
I have also had a few problems with the stouts and the FG readings which have remained high. I have just checked up on the last three Coopers stouts I have done and they were
OG 1048 - FG 1012 alc 5%
OG 1054 - FG 1018 alc 5%
OG 1052 - FG 1018 alc 4.75%
Your mixture is similar to what I have done with some variations on them all. As per bottling I have bottled all mine without a problem.
Some of the above I have used Safale yeast.
I would like to get my stout alcohol up to around the 6% mark (as per commercial ones). Any tips would be helpful
