Brewed a simple recipe beer (2-row, aromatic, acid, Pale LME) to 1.055, and fermented with WLP650 (Brett-B). Made a large starter and pitched.
Seemed to stop and clear at 1.018 after 2 weeks. It was too sweet for me so I thought I would add some other yeast to get it lower. At 4 weeks, still at 1.018 I racked it off the cake (but then decided to add back about a quarter of the cake) and an active starter of PacMan. One week later it was down to 1.010, stayed there for the next week (now at 6 weeks), but it was cloudy.
I added gelatin to try and clear it so I could bottle. 2 weeks later it's still cloudy, looks active (some yeast columns in the wort, and airlock activity every couple of minutes), some 'bits' forming on the surface, and the gravity is now 1.009.
That's 8 weeks. I thought Brett was supposed to be done in 4.
I assume I upset the yeast balance when I racked and added the PacMan, and now I have traditional Brett secondary fermentation. Tastes great, I really want to bottle this. How long do you think I need to wait. I've already changed my brewing plans to move up a couple of Pale Ales in place of my next All-Brett (don't want to tie up all the fermenters), and currently hoping to be able to bottle in about 7 weeks time.
Seemed to stop and clear at 1.018 after 2 weeks. It was too sweet for me so I thought I would add some other yeast to get it lower. At 4 weeks, still at 1.018 I racked it off the cake (but then decided to add back about a quarter of the cake) and an active starter of PacMan. One week later it was down to 1.010, stayed there for the next week (now at 6 weeks), but it was cloudy.
I added gelatin to try and clear it so I could bottle. 2 weeks later it's still cloudy, looks active (some yeast columns in the wort, and airlock activity every couple of minutes), some 'bits' forming on the surface, and the gravity is now 1.009.
That's 8 weeks. I thought Brett was supposed to be done in 4.
I assume I upset the yeast balance when I racked and added the PacMan, and now I have traditional Brett secondary fermentation. Tastes great, I really want to bottle this. How long do you think I need to wait. I've already changed my brewing plans to move up a couple of Pale Ales in place of my next All-Brett (don't want to tie up all the fermenters), and currently hoping to be able to bottle in about 7 weeks time.