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I recently cultured yeast from Orval bottle. I can't remember exactly how many times I stepped it up. But it went from being quite funky for the first few steps to smelling sort of clean towards the end.
I brewed a small batch with this:
84% Castle Pilsner
8% red wheat
4% honey malt
3% carapils
.04 oz Mosaic at 60,30,15,5 and whirlpool
It's a 1.5 gallon batch and 1.045 FG
It fermented at around 70-75 for a few weeks. after 4 weeks it smelled just awful. Like rotting dead things or something. I moved it to a cooler place and tried some tonight. The smell is gone and I have very pleasant brett tasting beer.
I want to bottle it but the gravity right now is 1.011 and I'm afraid I will end up with bombs. I don't really want to wait because I like it how it is now, where all the flavors aren't entirely brett.
Since it was a primary brett fermentation (or maybe a mixed ferment? I'm not sure what exactly is in the orval bottle), perhaps the gravity is what it is?
Not really sure what I'm asking, I guess it's what would other people do right now if they were me. Like I said it's really pretty tasty now, if anything a little bland. But the mosaic is still sort of there and the yeast characteristics are quite nice. I don't want to dry hop with mosaic because I've already been drinking tons of mosaic beers (i bought a pound).
I brewed a small batch with this:
84% Castle Pilsner
8% red wheat
4% honey malt
3% carapils
.04 oz Mosaic at 60,30,15,5 and whirlpool
It's a 1.5 gallon batch and 1.045 FG
It fermented at around 70-75 for a few weeks. after 4 weeks it smelled just awful. Like rotting dead things or something. I moved it to a cooler place and tried some tonight. The smell is gone and I have very pleasant brett tasting beer.
I want to bottle it but the gravity right now is 1.011 and I'm afraid I will end up with bombs. I don't really want to wait because I like it how it is now, where all the flavors aren't entirely brett.
Since it was a primary brett fermentation (or maybe a mixed ferment? I'm not sure what exactly is in the orval bottle), perhaps the gravity is what it is?
Not really sure what I'm asking, I guess it's what would other people do right now if they were me. Like I said it's really pretty tasty now, if anything a little bland. But the mosaic is still sort of there and the yeast characteristics are quite nice. I don't want to dry hop with mosaic because I've already been drinking tons of mosaic beers (i bought a pound).