Hello!
I am new to this forum and would really appreciate it if someone could help.
Lets start from the beginning;
I am a new brewer and have not got so much experience in it but have made quite a few batches and learning all the time.
I made a blonde and added some lemon zest the last few minutes of the boil as it is getting to summer here by me, as I have made this beer before, it would be a nice summers day drink.
With this batch I wanted to try something a bit different and wanted a bit more fruity flavors, so I used the saflager s23 and wanted to ferment it at room temperature.(I know I should have never used a lager yeast)
The reason I did this was because I heard this yeast gives off fruity flavors at ale temp.
So my beer came out with 1.044 OG which was spot on.
However I only added 1 packet of saflager and after a day and a bit of fermentation it stopped on 1.020FG I left it like that for a week and no change, so I added another pack of saflager as I wasn't sure 1 was enough with that OG.
It's been 4 days and the FG hasn't dropped but there are like white bubbles on top of my fermenter, I cant see any stringy things under the bubble hanging in the beer or anything, I smelt the beer and it didn't smell foul and I also tasted it and it didn't taste too anything out the ordinary, just a little bit lemony.
I am thinking of cold crashing the beer and hoping its just CO2 bubbles.
Please look at the attached pictures and comment.
I am new to this forum and would really appreciate it if someone could help.
Lets start from the beginning;
I am a new brewer and have not got so much experience in it but have made quite a few batches and learning all the time.
I made a blonde and added some lemon zest the last few minutes of the boil as it is getting to summer here by me, as I have made this beer before, it would be a nice summers day drink.
With this batch I wanted to try something a bit different and wanted a bit more fruity flavors, so I used the saflager s23 and wanted to ferment it at room temperature.(I know I should have never used a lager yeast)
The reason I did this was because I heard this yeast gives off fruity flavors at ale temp.
So my beer came out with 1.044 OG which was spot on.
However I only added 1 packet of saflager and after a day and a bit of fermentation it stopped on 1.020FG I left it like that for a week and no change, so I added another pack of saflager as I wasn't sure 1 was enough with that OG.
It's been 4 days and the FG hasn't dropped but there are like white bubbles on top of my fermenter, I cant see any stringy things under the bubble hanging in the beer or anything, I smelt the beer and it didn't smell foul and I also tasted it and it didn't taste too anything out the ordinary, just a little bit lemony.
I am thinking of cold crashing the beer and hoping its just CO2 bubbles.
Please look at the attached pictures and comment.