I recently brewed a smoked cal common with wy2112, my og was 1.061 and it finished at 1.001.. This doesn't seem right to me, any thoughts? 10lbs pale malt 1lbs mesquite smoked malt 1lbs crystal 75 1oz cluster fwh .5oz 20min .5oz 10min 1oz fo fermented at 56 for a week then brought up to 65 for a week, then room temp for 3 weeks
are you sure it wasn't 1.01 vs 1.001? Either would be low, but the first would be possible, the second is almost impossible with that yeast/grain mix and no infection.
I double checked, it was 1.000 temp corrected to 1.001.. i guess i will be keeping an eye on possible bottle bombs.
You won't have to worry about bottle bombs with a FG of 1.001. Most sour beer doesn't finish that low. But for a sach beer to ferment from 1.061 to 1.001....... You have a healthy population of Brett or wild yeast/bacteria. Or your reading it wrong. You have your hydrometer calibrated with 60f distilled water? Are you using a hydrometer? I bet it's 1.010. That's not 1.001.
I had a similar issue with a batch once and it turned out the scale inside my hydrometer had apparently physically moved inside the tube. When I measured my tap water at 60 degrees I was reading below 0.9 and I knew my hydrometer was now worthless.
I just had a saison finish at 1.000... but that's using 3711 yeast. I can't see a cc lager yeast with 67-71% attenuation making it all the way to that though. I say don't worry about it, and bottle it, and I'm sure it will turn out fine.
It'll probably be fine, if a bit thin. I get concerned and start tweaking any recipe that finishes below 1.010 (and generally aim for 1.015, and a bit higher for some brews).
Not necessarily. Also, since your hydrometer reads 1.004 in water, your beer finished at 0.998 which is the lowest FG in the history of beer.
You can calibrate them. Put a towel on your counter, and bump it in the direction it need to go, till it's correct. I've done it a few times. Kind of a pain in the neck to get right, but worth it.
I just had a bottle bomb after only being in bottles for a week. weird thing is the few plastic bottles i used are not rock solid, I hope it was just a week bottle.
I think there's something really off about your beer - sorry. Don't know exactly what, but it may be a bad hydrometer, fuzzy numbers, or an infection. I would make sure that your bottles are sealed off so that if more of them let go, it won't make a mess or hurt anyone, and shards / shrapnel are contained.
1). You need a new hydrometer and you need to learn how to take readings with a hydrometer. 2.) read # 1 carefully.
