I did a modified partial mash version of BM's SWMBO Slayer Blonde. It has been in bottles since July 30 (6.5 weeks). The bottles I have opened over the last month are very lightly carbed. There is a slight hiss when I open them, some bubbles and a small head if i really agitate it when I pour.
For the most part it hasn't changed very much in the past few weeks.
I have roused the yeast a few times in the bottles. Rolled them, flipped them over, everything short of shaking them. The beer is really clear so it's easy to see the yeast go back into suspension.
The beer is really nice tasting so I doubt this is the case but it is worth noting. The previous batch that I harvested the yeast from is very bad (a Wit). It tastes like an inhaler. Lots of hot alcohols and some plastic taste. When I first tasted it I thought it was due to hot fermentation (no temp control got up to ~80F). The beers are still sitting untouched in bottles. One person who tasted one of the wits thought there might be some wild yeast contamination. I cooled the beer (wit) in ~50F sea water (brewed at my folks house, so i just carried the pot outside and dunked it into the harbor). So it is possible it picked something up from that. The fermentation of the wit was very sluggish and took upwards of 3.5 weeks. While the blonde was relatively normal and took about a week. So long story short, can wild yeast affect carbonation? And if it is wild yeast, the likelyhood that I found a strain that ferments as nicely as this is slim. So im skeptical.
Sorry for the novel, but i figure the more info you guys have the better. Hopefully I'm not giving you too many red herrings.
The recipe:
1lb Belgian Pale
1.5lb Wheat
.5 Crystal 10
.5 Wheat Flake
.25 caravienne
5lb wheat lme
1oz Williamette
Mashed in around 168 dropped to 158 when grain was added got it down to 155 stayed ~154 brought back to 152 after dropped to 150
total 45 min
Sparge water 170 for ~13 min
Late malt addition at 15
.25 oz hops at 10
Cooled in tub with ICE ~20min
Cooled to 74 after top off to 5 gal.
Pitched washed White Labs Wit Ale yeast
OG 1.048
FG 1.009 at 70
Brewed on July 10
Fermenter in rubbermaid bucket, filled with water kept at 67-70 for entire fermentation
Conditioned to 74
Bottled 7/30/09
Primed with just a shade over 3/4 cup of corn sugar, boiled in 2 cups water, slowly stirred with autosiphon hose.
Tasted on 8/21 : Very good, light clove taste, some esters/fruit , possibly undercarbed
For the most part it hasn't changed very much in the past few weeks.
I have roused the yeast a few times in the bottles. Rolled them, flipped them over, everything short of shaking them. The beer is really clear so it's easy to see the yeast go back into suspension.
The beer is really nice tasting so I doubt this is the case but it is worth noting. The previous batch that I harvested the yeast from is very bad (a Wit). It tastes like an inhaler. Lots of hot alcohols and some plastic taste. When I first tasted it I thought it was due to hot fermentation (no temp control got up to ~80F). The beers are still sitting untouched in bottles. One person who tasted one of the wits thought there might be some wild yeast contamination. I cooled the beer (wit) in ~50F sea water (brewed at my folks house, so i just carried the pot outside and dunked it into the harbor). So it is possible it picked something up from that. The fermentation of the wit was very sluggish and took upwards of 3.5 weeks. While the blonde was relatively normal and took about a week. So long story short, can wild yeast affect carbonation? And if it is wild yeast, the likelyhood that I found a strain that ferments as nicely as this is slim. So im skeptical.
Sorry for the novel, but i figure the more info you guys have the better. Hopefully I'm not giving you too many red herrings.
The recipe:
1lb Belgian Pale
1.5lb Wheat
.5 Crystal 10
.5 Wheat Flake
.25 caravienne
5lb wheat lme
1oz Williamette
Mashed in around 168 dropped to 158 when grain was added got it down to 155 stayed ~154 brought back to 152 after dropped to 150
total 45 min
Sparge water 170 for ~13 min
Late malt addition at 15
.25 oz hops at 10
Cooled in tub with ICE ~20min
Cooled to 74 after top off to 5 gal.
Pitched washed White Labs Wit Ale yeast
OG 1.048
FG 1.009 at 70
Brewed on July 10
Fermenter in rubbermaid bucket, filled with water kept at 67-70 for entire fermentation
Conditioned to 74
Bottled 7/30/09
Primed with just a shade over 3/4 cup of corn sugar, boiled in 2 cups water, slowly stirred with autosiphon hose.
Tasted on 8/21 : Very good, light clove taste, some esters/fruit , possibly undercarbed