Bensiff
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I have my first brett beer almost underway. I'm doing an Orval style, so right now its fermenting away with some Belgian sacc. which should finish around 1.012 or so (OG 1.058). Then I will rack to a secondary (can't remember the last secondary I used!) and adding the brett. The plan is to do the 4 week thing like Orval; however, this is where my confusion is. Brett can take a long time to do its thing so how do I bottle it and get predictable results with carbonation? Do I hit it with a campden to kill it off then at bottling add some US-05 or something like that, or will the available fermentables be so low by that point that I don't need to worry and I can carbonate as I would a normal beer?