Wheat beer..

[cerevisia]

Last Sunday I brewed what will hopefully be a wheat beer. However the airlock on the fermenter stopped bubbling around Wednesday. Weather has been pretty cold the last couple of days but I've used a heat pad and it never dropped below 18 degrees. I took a hydrometer reading (I'm not very good at reading them) and it seems to have a high gravity, as if it still needs a few more days to ferment, but it just doesn't seem to want to do that. Is there any hope for this batch? (If not it'll be my first brewing failure.)

[JoKing]

It'll work out. Just wait another week - and keep a cool head. They all ferment out in the end.

[cerevisia]

Cheers for the advice man!

Would that be wise to leave it in the fermentor for a few more days? (You've probably had more brewing experience than me - I've only been brewing for two years and just moved from kits to partial mashing) Wouldn't the yeast be starved of sugar?

[JoKing]

I've left some brews in the primary for a month - especially the big ones... and lagers. It'll be fine - it takes ages for the yeast to die... think about the yeast in the bottom of you bottled beers: it's just the same... can you taste in when the bottles are 3 months old?

[cerevisia]

Awesome! Cheers Joking!

I had a taste from the hydrometer and it tastes like a wheat beer so that's something. :)