Hi!
Me and a friend brewed a dark christmas ale yesterday night (so about twelve hours ago), kind of inspired by the amazing N'ice Couffe.
We brewed 21 liters/5.5 gallons, and the og ended up at 1.093 (goal was 95 but never brewed anything this strong so im still happy!)
The yeast we used was wlp500, monastery ale.
I dont have the knowledge,space and equipment for making starters, so even if it costed me much more, I didnt make one.
Instead I went to the mr malty yeast calculator, and it said I needed 3.5 vials of yeast, so i ordered four.
We split the batch in two, and pitched two vials in each.
The problem is when I rechecked mr malty, I realize i must have done something wrong because now it says I need 5.1 vials.
My question is, do I need more? And if so, should I pitch more as soon as possible or should i wait? I dont have a local carrier that has the same yeast in stock, so If i need more i need to order it and it will take a couple of days.
Can I do something else?
Me and a friend brewed a dark christmas ale yesterday night (so about twelve hours ago), kind of inspired by the amazing N'ice Couffe.
We brewed 21 liters/5.5 gallons, and the og ended up at 1.093 (goal was 95 but never brewed anything this strong so im still happy!)
The yeast we used was wlp500, monastery ale.
I dont have the knowledge,space and equipment for making starters, so even if it costed me much more, I didnt make one.
Instead I went to the mr malty yeast calculator, and it said I needed 3.5 vials of yeast, so i ordered four.
We split the batch in two, and pitched two vials in each.
The problem is when I rechecked mr malty, I realize i must have done something wrong because now it says I need 5.1 vials.
My question is, do I need more? And if so, should I pitch more as soon as possible or should i wait? I dont have a local carrier that has the same yeast in stock, so If i need more i need to order it and it will take a couple of days.
Can I do something else?
