Jimmy Von Tripel
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I did a Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter recently. The O.G. was 1.104 and the yeast seem to have finally quit at 1.027. Its been a few days now with no activity and the gravity is not dropping anymore.
I oxygenated the hell out of those buggers at the start and they fermented very strong for a long time. I even agitated the carboy and swirled the beer on occasion but they just don't want to eat anymore. I even moved the carboy into a room that was about 3-4 degrees warmer and that helped for a few days. But they seem to be totally out of steam at this point.
I would like the gravity to go down another 7 points to 1.020. Any advice on how to do this? Because I dont have anymore US-05 yeast I was thinking of using T-58 to eat some more of the sugar. But I dont want the yeast to bring the gravity down too far. That would suck to end up with this beer being dry.
There is one other thing I thought of as a reason why the FG may be so high. I did a 100 minute boil so that may have created some extra carmalization making less fermentable wort for the yeast.
Anyhow, would love to hear what anyone has to say about this.
I oxygenated the hell out of those buggers at the start and they fermented very strong for a long time. I even agitated the carboy and swirled the beer on occasion but they just don't want to eat anymore. I even moved the carboy into a room that was about 3-4 degrees warmer and that helped for a few days. But they seem to be totally out of steam at this point.
I would like the gravity to go down another 7 points to 1.020. Any advice on how to do this? Because I dont have anymore US-05 yeast I was thinking of using T-58 to eat some more of the sugar. But I dont want the yeast to bring the gravity down too far. That would suck to end up with this beer being dry.
There is one other thing I thought of as a reason why the FG may be so high. I did a 100 minute boil so that may have created some extra carmalization making less fermentable wort for the yeast.
Anyhow, would love to hear what anyone has to say about this.