Steve973
Well-Known Member
About 4 weeks ago, a friend and I attempted to brew a Duvel clone. Some of you may remember when I posted about it. We circulated while mashing, and our schedule was like this:
1.25 qt/lb
60 minutes @ 140
30 minutes @ 150
Mashout @ 170
The starting gravity was a little high at 1.090.
We used pils malt and dextrose made up 17% of fermentables. Now, at the 4 week mark, our gravity is at 1.030 and we were hoping for a FG of around 1.010 since we mashed for attenuation. We had 2 starters: 1 was cultured from Duvel bottles, and the other was White Labs Duvel yeast. My buddy even dropped an extra vial of the WL Duvel yeast into the fermenter between the 2 and 3 week mark to be sure the yeast was still viable, but that didn't seem to help.
Any input?
Thanks,
Steve
1.25 qt/lb
60 minutes @ 140
30 minutes @ 150
Mashout @ 170
The starting gravity was a little high at 1.090.
We used pils malt and dextrose made up 17% of fermentables. Now, at the 4 week mark, our gravity is at 1.030 and we were hoping for a FG of around 1.010 since we mashed for attenuation. We had 2 starters: 1 was cultured from Duvel bottles, and the other was White Labs Duvel yeast. My buddy even dropped an extra vial of the WL Duvel yeast into the fermenter between the 2 and 3 week mark to be sure the yeast was still viable, but that didn't seem to help.
Any input?
Thanks,
Steve