COLObrewer
Well-Known Member
I'm very excited about my new yeast, see here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/can-i-culture-yeast-juniper-berries-169156/
However, when I added it to beersmith I realized I don't really know much about it yet, does anyone have detailed procedures/guidelines of officially determining:
1. Flocculation, Do I time it? How? When do I know to stop the timer?
2. Attenuation, Anything different than this: From FG = OG - (OG x %) => % att. = (OG-FG)/OG)?
3. Alcohol tollerance, I guess this is obvious? Is there a standard for wort when testing this?
4. Ideal temperature, Again, may be obvious but is there a standard wort to use?
5. Anything else I forgot, lag time? etc?
I've already started testing as you can see in the thread, however I can see it taking many different batches with many different variables to determine all this. Is there a source that will officially test this yeast for a small fee? I presume someone somewhere has already propagated this yeast from juniper berries before, it is perhaps an ale yeast already on the market?
Keep on yeasting my friends
However, when I added it to beersmith I realized I don't really know much about it yet, does anyone have detailed procedures/guidelines of officially determining:
1. Flocculation, Do I time it? How? When do I know to stop the timer?
2. Attenuation, Anything different than this: From FG = OG - (OG x %) => % att. = (OG-FG)/OG)?
3. Alcohol tollerance, I guess this is obvious? Is there a standard for wort when testing this?
4. Ideal temperature, Again, may be obvious but is there a standard wort to use?
5. Anything else I forgot, lag time? etc?
I've already started testing as you can see in the thread, however I can see it taking many different batches with many different variables to determine all this. Is there a source that will officially test this yeast for a small fee? I presume someone somewhere has already propagated this yeast from juniper berries before, it is perhaps an ale yeast already on the market?
Keep on yeasting my friends