Giggliato
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Hello there,
Does anyone else use IDY to make their beer? I made an extract batch last week with the stuff and it turned out really well. I think it might have been in the saison style. lol, one of the best beers I ever drank, I can't wait to make more and maybe pin down a recipe.
The beer was extremely cloudy however, perhaps because I only left it in the fermentor for a week, the IDY was beginning to flocculate but I wanted to get drinking! IDY definitely looks like a bottom fermentor but I'm not really sure I know about that.
Also I used half a cup of priming sugar for a 2.5 gallon batch and the beers were definitely overcarbonated, after a few days in the bottle they became gushers after opening. The amount of priming sugar doesn't seem like too much though so I'm not sure what was going on.
The IDY was pitched dry of course and had been stored in my freezer for the last two years.
Does anyone else use IDY to make their beer? I made an extract batch last week with the stuff and it turned out really well. I think it might have been in the saison style. lol, one of the best beers I ever drank, I can't wait to make more and maybe pin down a recipe.
The beer was extremely cloudy however, perhaps because I only left it in the fermentor for a week, the IDY was beginning to flocculate but I wanted to get drinking! IDY definitely looks like a bottom fermentor but I'm not really sure I know about that.
Also I used half a cup of priming sugar for a 2.5 gallon batch and the beers were definitely overcarbonated, after a few days in the bottle they became gushers after opening. The amount of priming sugar doesn't seem like too much though so I'm not sure what was going on.
The IDY was pitched dry of course and had been stored in my freezer for the last two years.