Had MZ on tap tonight. #Flamesuit on
VSGLS1 said:Had MZ on tap tonight. #Flamesuit on
Oophaga said:How's everyone feel about such a crazy wort with no pure o's? Seems one option is to use agitation and reoxygenate after 18 hours? Any other suggestions? Not looking forward to spending 60+ for the kit and tank.
I poured back and forth between 2 fermenters until it was really frothy, then pitched. I did it again after 18 hours, like you mentioned, it really took off after that. The krausen ring was about 16" up on both the buckets.
Oophaga said:How is your recipe coming along? I was curious about yours. Haven't bottled yet correct?
Whizard Hat did you use pure o2?
Thanks,
Ryan
Oophaga said:Hearts only carries Muttons as well, I am fairly sure its the same as your referring to, super dark. I have never adjusted for the color difference and never wish I had. Never noticed overly roast flavors in my beers either, maybe it'll work well with the Hunahpu clones, even darker! Surprised how low it's finishing! Good to know. I want a fg of about 1.039+ for that crazy viscosity. Of course that makes balancing the sweetness even more of an importance. Did it have a pretty serious mouth feel?
Also, no surprise a 10.75% is boozy seeing its not even bottled yet! I bet it'll be fantastic 6+mo's in. I'm almost to the point of being able to only try one 12 oz a month to stop myself from drinking all my big beers before properly aged. I'm generally very bad at that.
I have brewed up a few batches of a similar type of beer. I talked with Wayne awhile back and got a bit of feed back and took into his suggestion and made it my own. In the past 8 months or so I have made two batches. With the intent to age both.... Didnt work. This stuff was too good to last. I managed to bottle about 24 bottles on the first batch out of the keg with a beergun. I think I have 3 bottles left of that batch and the 2nd batch I made had apple brandy soaked oak cubes added. I just bottled the remainder of that keg with hopes of saving and only got 24 bottles again. That stash is down to 18 bottles now. Both batches I made have gone over very well and I find this style of beer very fun to make. My first batch was 10.4% (1.100 OG) and 2nd was 11%(1.110) with Thames Valley Yeast. Both batches had crap mash efficiency as expected (55%) and maxed out my mash tun with ~30ish lbs of grain. I am curious to see how other's versions will turn out.
Anybody add yeast at bottling? I'm sitting just under 11%, I'm not sure how much that 1968 has left in it. I am adding Irish whiskey soaked oak chips tomorrow (grooms choice), so I will probably be bottling in a couple of weeks.
Oophaga said:Are you using cubes or chips? I hear the chips can be very quick to become harsh. Just a heads up, not from personal experience though.
Oophaga said:BTW wlp002 and thames valley both have tolerances that are around 10% so I would re-pitch at bottling. Not that it wouldn't carb, it'd just probably take forever, and seeing as your on a time crunch I would go ahead and do it to be on the safe side.
allenH said:That was my thought. Wyeast says 1968 is good for 9%, Wayne says he can get 13% out of it, but we ain't Wayne. My last gravity reading, I believe, was around 10.7-10.8-ish. I have never re-pitched before, I definitely don't want to drop the gravity much more than it is now.
You'll be adding sugar to right? My question is do you make a starter to repitch? And if so, would you want to do it well ahead of time so it could be crashed in order to decant most of the starter beer off of the yeast?
I've been doing a little digging around, some people say add more of the same yeast and other say to add champagne yeast (Lalvin EC-1118 ). My questions are, if I add more 1968, how will it do in an 11% enviroment? If I add EC-1118, was the 1968 finished, or did it peter out due to alchy%? Or will it drop the gravity further with its increased alcohol tolerance? I'm showing my big beer noob-ness here
FATC1TY said:The general rule is to use a yeast less attenuative than what you used to ferment with. It'll go after the newly introduced "easy" sugars.
I'd suggest using something that floccs well, and have at it. There's a yeast out for cask/bottle condition ales for this very purpose. Dry yeast from Danstar, CBC-1. http://www.danstaryeast.com/products/cbc-1-cask-and-bottle-conditioned-beer-yeast
My LHBS has it, but I haven't used it, since I keg mostly.
Thanks for all the advice, I will check a my LHBS for the CBC-1, if I can't find it, I will try out the champagne yeast. How many volumes is everyone aiming for on this?
Which recipe did you go with? Loving the results, still have yet to do mine, hopefully this month.
FATC1TY said:Thanks for the notes on the spicing.. You mention Thames as the yeast.. I was under the impression from CCB and others, that 1968 was their house.. Do you think they use a different yeast for their bigger beers?
I believe they used Thames previously. Now it's 1968.
edecambra said:Yep, an old BN podcast interview had Wayne saying Thames valley as the yeast, but we have uncovered the yeast change. And thanks FLBrew for the heads up on Copper Tubing, just picked up some 1/2!
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