My brew has stopped

I made some Young's Scottish Harvest Heavy from a can. I used cane sugar, which I prefer for colour and taste. My refractometer said 1.048 pre yeast. Ten days on, gravity seems to be static at 1.020-1.025, however I don't entirely trust the refractometer. I was careful with cleaning.

I've tried adding a little more sugar and some yeast to see if it needed kickstarting again but it hasn't made any difference.

Should I just keg and prime and see what it does?
It's a little cloudy but clearing slowly.

Advice please.

Topic stuck-fermentation yeast fermentation homebrew

Category Mac

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thanks to @rob for a great tip. As it happened, I kegged it last night as I have nothing to lose. If it bursts out, it probably wasnt finished. I will read into the charts and correction factors as the manual did not make it clear that the refractometer did not reliably work mid-ferment. Its very cloudy but a spell in the garage should solve that

update - it had actually finished (can says 1.008) Brix to Gravity during and after fermentation converter Original Brix 1.048 Current Brix 1.025 Current Gravity 1.005

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