Evan!
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Never having done a saison before, but routinely having my beers finish in the upper teens, I'm not sure what to do here. I know saisons are supposed to finish low---and JZ's instructions for his saison say that if the saison yeast poop out too soon, to pitch with a simple ale yeast like 1056. But is 1.017 too low for the new yeast to even bother waking up? Would I be wasting a packet of US-05? I'm stumped, because I mashed this sucker at like 148-149 hoping to get high attenuation, so 1.017 is absurd. Especially with an OG of 1.060.
Originally, I pitched a nice 2-qt starter that was hopping along, and I had activity in maybe an hour. I left town for a couple days, and when I returned, it was already slowing down. I checked the sg and it was 1.030, way high. So I slowly brought the temps up to 80f, left it there for a couple days, and it got a little more activity. Then it finally gave up and stopped. At 1.017 . On any other beer I'd be cool with that, but Saisons are s'posed to dry out.
Any thoughts on this'n?
Originally, I pitched a nice 2-qt starter that was hopping along, and I had activity in maybe an hour. I left town for a couple days, and when I returned, it was already slowing down. I checked the sg and it was 1.030, way high. So I slowly brought the temps up to 80f, left it there for a couple days, and it got a little more activity. Then it finally gave up and stopped. At 1.017 . On any other beer I'd be cool with that, but Saisons are s'posed to dry out.
Any thoughts on this'n?