stuck fermentation

Do you have a stuck fermentation?  A beer that stopped fermenting and you don't know why?  Maybe it was active for a day or two and stopped all together for a week or more?  In that case, you need to take a sample with your wine thief, and measure the gravity of the beer in a test jar with a hydrometer.  If you do so and the hydrometer reads something that is very high in gravity, or brixx/balling, you may have a "stuck" fermentation.  Something happened to halt fermentation in your beer, and … [Read more...] about How to deal with a “stuck” fermentation