mydementia
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Hi guys.
I made my attempt at the CYBI Bam Biere clone recipe a few weeks ago and have had some interesting results.
First of all, I scaled up the recipe for a 10 gallon boil that would yield about 8 gallons of wort. I racked 5.25 gallons to a carboy and pitched a fresh tube of WLP550 and the remaining 2.5 gallons over to a small carboy and pitched 2x Bam Biere dregs and 1x ESBam dregs...
Day 2, the dregs carboy took off - krausen looked good... all was on track. When I tasted it after a week, it was already getting sour... thought it was strange, but verified that the pH was actually 0.5 point lower than the WLP550 batch. After the second week (yesterday) it is VERY sour... bordering on unpleasant... both are at TG... yielded about 3.5% ABV (was going for a session beer, after all).
What's going on in the dregs beer? Obviously some lactic acid bacteria has taken strong hold... but I haven't read about anything that sours that quickly... I intend to blend the two and bottle... but I don't want any gushers!!
Thanks!
Mike
I made my attempt at the CYBI Bam Biere clone recipe a few weeks ago and have had some interesting results.
First of all, I scaled up the recipe for a 10 gallon boil that would yield about 8 gallons of wort. I racked 5.25 gallons to a carboy and pitched a fresh tube of WLP550 and the remaining 2.5 gallons over to a small carboy and pitched 2x Bam Biere dregs and 1x ESBam dregs...
Day 2, the dregs carboy took off - krausen looked good... all was on track. When I tasted it after a week, it was already getting sour... thought it was strange, but verified that the pH was actually 0.5 point lower than the WLP550 batch. After the second week (yesterday) it is VERY sour... bordering on unpleasant... both are at TG... yielded about 3.5% ABV (was going for a session beer, after all).
What's going on in the dregs beer? Obviously some lactic acid bacteria has taken strong hold... but I haven't read about anything that sours that quickly... I intend to blend the two and bottle... but I don't want any gushers!!
Thanks!
Mike