Bosium
Well-Known Member
I've used this yeast for four batches of lager now, twice from a starter and twice from a repitch (used both Wyeast 2001 and WLP800, although these are supposed to be analogous. Every time I've noticed that it takes about 4 full weeks in primary to ferment out. My latest repitched bo pils (1.052) has been in the FV for just over three weeks now at 10C (50F) and it's still going. I checked on it last night and it was still churning actively inside the clear better bottle FV, and there was a thin white krausen on top of the beer.
I've only ever made lager with this yeast before, and to be fair it's made great clean lager which has attenuated well, I'm just a little concerned with how long it seems to take to do this. I was always under the impression from what I'd read that a moderate gravity lager ferment with enough yeast should take about two weeks (sometimes longer), but this takes four weeks every time, diacetyl rest or not.
Has anyone else had this issue with this yeast before? I'm considering using a new strain to knock a few weeks of my production time. Any suggestions? I was thinking of WLP833 - Ayinger, as I've heard good things about this strain but would welcome comments / suggestions / advice.
Thanks.
I've only ever made lager with this yeast before, and to be fair it's made great clean lager which has attenuated well, I'm just a little concerned with how long it seems to take to do this. I was always under the impression from what I'd read that a moderate gravity lager ferment with enough yeast should take about two weeks (sometimes longer), but this takes four weeks every time, diacetyl rest or not.
Has anyone else had this issue with this yeast before? I'm considering using a new strain to knock a few weeks of my production time. Any suggestions? I was thinking of WLP833 - Ayinger, as I've heard good things about this strain but would welcome comments / suggestions / advice.
Thanks.