Need major help here :/

Is that accurate? Your FG reading was 1.100?

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First thing that caught my eye too. That's a pretty big wheat ale especially if you did see signs of fermentation.

Pitching your yeast at 70 is unlikely to be a problem. Were you able to maintain fermentation temps?

 

How many lbs. of extract (was it liquid or dry?)?

How big was your batch (i.e., how many gallons of beer did you end up with)?

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What was your original gravity? I'd say put up your entire recipe up so we have some more information to go on.

High gravity beers are tougher and I wouldn't recommend it for a first time solo try. You need lots of yeast cells and oxygen to get full attenuation.

 

So what was your OG? If you didn't measure, what did the recipe specify?

 

It sounds like you did not compensate for boil off resulting in a lose of 2 gallons of wort which you offset with one gallon of water. Assuming a 5 gallon batch your OG was likely 20% higher than intended. Plus there would be additional sugars from the raspberries. Did you take an OG reading? If so what was it. 1.10, assuming no fermentation at all, sounds high based on this mistake and my guess as to the intended kit OG. Have you calibrated your hydrometer? Are you trying to read it in the fermenter with all the extra raspberries around?

 

I'm not sure how you went from an OG of 1.06 to a FG of 1.10. That indicates that you have more unfermented sugars, or something else adding density to the wort, after fermentation than you did before.

 

Since you lost 2 gallons of water was the 1.100 reading taken before adding any water, but maybe the raspberries had already been added? Were the raspberries in a syrup solution? A super dense 3 gallons of wort/beer, even if raspberries (syrup?) added, would not explain a 1.100 reading, but we're all grasping for possible explanations here. It seems to me that there has to be something about your gravity reading procedure that is suspect. Are you certain that you are not reading 1.010?

 

Adding (fresh/frozen) raspberries won't increase the gravity of your wort/beer. By the time their sugars are making it into the wort/beer, so is the water from the fruit.

And gravity does not increase during fermentation. So...

If the extract recipe was designed for an OG of 1.060 and you had something at 1.100 or higher, that would mean you wound up with only about 3/5 of the volume of wort that the recipe called for. Is it possible that your final volume (after boiling and topping off) was really only 3 gallons?

There has to be something wrong with the FG measurement, or there's something else you haven't told us yet.

 

A solution with an OG of 1.060 will not increase to 1.100, unless 2/5 of the water evaporates. (No matter how many raspberries you add, because they will actually reduce the gravity. The gravity of the sugar/water in raspberries would be somewhere around 1.020 to 1.030. You can compute the exact answer if you know the sugar content and the water content of raspberries.)

 

Well...if it was really 1.060 @ 3 gallons, it would have been 1.045 @ 4 gallons. (And 1.036 at 5 gallons. Unless a whole bunch of the extract didn't make it into the kettle, that 1.060 @ 3 gallons would not be possible. Should have been much higher @ 3 gallons since it should have been 1.060 @ 5 gallons.)

I recommend tasting the wort/beer at this point. And maybe taking a picture of a new gravity measurement and posting it.

 

Nothing except make your beer a little cloudier (for a while), which you might want in your wheat beer.

ETA: and it might expedite the carbonation time.