Stuck Fermentation

January 18th, 2008

The third beer brewed on the new all-grain setup didn’t go well. Just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong during the brew session.  And now, to top things off, it appears I have a stuck fermentation. The original gravity was 1.074 and the target for the final gravity is 1.020 and I’m stuck at 1.042.  I re-pitched some cooper’s ale yeast and after 24 hours it appears to have done nothing.  What to do…