Ok, brewing a red with Ryan_pa in 2 weeks.... is there anything special about a starter for roselare? dont aover power the bugs or anything....
I've never used it, is there anything at the bottom after a month or two?
Does it need much in the way of headspace?
I was going to go with US-05 until it was about half done and then rack onto the Roselare, maybe I'll just go all Roselare and use the dregs later.
I've had mine going for 2.5 months. It has a funky pellicle and yes there's a settling at the bottom. I don't see why it would need any more headspace than a regular beer. I've had a steady but not a violent fermentation.
You really don't need an extra ale yeast fermentation. The Roeselare blend has it all..no need for anything else, no starter needed...just pitch it.
how long will this sit in primary? 6 months? the full year?
I am going to have to rack my Wild Brews flanders red off after 2 weeks to pitch the Jamil red on the yeast cake. The LHBS is out of Roselare, and the strain is supposed to get better each generation, up to generation 6.
So that sort of puts the theory of making a starter out to pasture no?
If Gen 2,3,4,5 are good then making a starter and saving some is just fine too.
Jeff actually recommends leaving it until visible signs of fermentation have finished. That's much longer than a week.I rack after only about a week for my flemish reds, as Wild Brews suggests getting Reds off of the trub for bulk aging
weremichael said:The only time you should primary with a sacc strain is if you are going to age your beer in a barrel.
Why do you say this?
This is based off of what I have learned from Russian River and Jolly Pumpkin. The primary in steel is with sacc. and then they put their sours into barrels. Well cared for barrels allow o2 into the process and have a very healthy supply of bugs, which makes the beers funkier. If they didn't do the sacc. primary, the beers would be too funky.
When fermenting in a glass/plastic carboy, the o2 intake is so low that the sacc. primary is an unnecessary step. All the sacc. that you need for fermentation is in the Roeselare blend. Also, if you did ferment with a sacc. strain first, it would not leave enough sugars for the bugs to make the beer funky.
Just to reiterate what has been stated above, if reusing the cake without adding more bugs or sacc gets even better results than the first use, then making a started doesn't seem like it can hurt at all. Am I missing something?
moti_mo said:I'm on gen 3 of my Roeselare yeast. Gen 1 produced a fantastic oud bruin that is in month 9 right now. Gen 2 produced a berlinerweisse that took only 1 month to taste nice and sour. Gen 3 went into a pilsner malt based sour that was very sour after only 1 month, and I plan on giving it another 5 months on the cake before adding some fruit to age for another few months.
So the bugs get more and more effective with each pitch. All depends on what you're going for.
How long has each generation been working for? The full aging time, or are you racking to secondary and reusing it after a month or two? I'm trying to get a handle on how quickly the bugs and Brett dominate.
moti_mo said:The oud bruin was aged in primary on the yeast/bacteria cake for 6 months before transferring to secondary. I then put the berlinerweisse onto the oud bruin cake immediately, and this aged for one month before bottling. I then put the most recent sour onto this yeast cake, and its been going for about two months. I plan to let it go to six months before transferring to secondary with fruit. Not sure if I'm going to push it one more generation, I'll probably wait and see if this third batch has gotten ridiculously sour by six months.
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