falconers ipa: dry safale us-05 or pitch on top of wlp002

**Veedo** · 10-05-2011, 02:43 AM

i have a pumpkin beer fermenting at the moment, and next on my brew list is a brewers best falconers ipa kit. the kit came with the safale us-05 dry yeast, but am thinking of tossing the falconers wort on top of the wlp002 that is brewing the pumpkin beer now. i dont think i will have to worry about the pumpkin affecting the beer, i used cubed pieces in grain bags, not much gunk transferred over. thoughts?

**944play** · 10-05-2011, 03:32 AM

Brew the recipe as designed. That will give you a baseline for where you want to take it. Obviously someone thought Chico yeast was the right critter for that brew, and I'd trust that choice.

As much as I dig 002 and repitching, pouring wort into a scummy fermenter with the previous (same volume) batch's entire yeast mass is not my idea of best practices.

Gtrman13 · 10-05-2011, 05:42 AM

I've never had a bad result brewing an IPA using US-05. It ferments very cleanly letting the hop profile really shine through!

**samc** · 10-05-2011, 05:48 AM

I think that if the bag containing the Pumpkin was good enough to keep the Pumpkin out of your beer then you would have a Pumpkin beer missing Pumpkin. Point being that it will carry over to your new beer unless you wash the yeast. I'd go with the dry yeast.

**Veedo** · 10-05-2011, 10:38 AM

Well, we baked it, cubed it put it in bags and boiled for 60. Hoping it still went i.to the beer a bit, without the chunks? Sounding like ill go dry!

**bullinachinashop** · 10-05-2011, 10:44 AM

Make sure to rehydrate the 05.

Bull