Help!! Molasses wash

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Fishinfinatic22
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Help!! Molasses wash

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Please someone shed light on my issue or maybe not really an issue
35 gallon overall wash
9 gallons of 50% sugar blackstrap molasses
Ph was good
Dap added
Vitamin b added
Premier cuvée yeast
Epsomsalt added
Sg 1.114 (15.2%) premier cuvée is good to 18%
90degree wash

First 6 days it was running like wildfire. Day 7 it has stalled at 1.034
I’ve ready that wine goes through a primary and secondary fermentation and the secondary fermentation tends to slow down and take a while to finish out.

I’ve made many washes in the 12-13% range SG and always had luck with finishing out on day 7/8

Current visible signs are tons of smaller bubbles (yeast is still working) but I’m seeing no drop in gravity. Is this as a result of non fermentable sugars in the molasses? Been 5 years since I ran a wash but my recollection is that it never slowed down this much before finishing Atleast closer to 1.010. I do realize it’s hard to get accurate readings with molasses because on the unfermentable sugars.

Thanks for the help!!

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