TravelingLight
Well-Known Member
So much innuendo in that thread title 
I digress...
I've got a one gallon jug that was supposed to be my first "big boy" sour (pulled off a gallon of saison after primary and pitched dregs; saison was at 1.000 going in). Well, I've decided instead to turn it into a horny tank.
Up until yesterday, it was only up to about the shoulders of the jug, lot of head space. Last night I decanted off some of the beer for a taste and gravity check. Gravity was at 0.097(!!!) and it had a nice tartness to it, some slight funk beginning, and a good bit of acetic acid, no doubt due to oxygen exposure with the ample headspace.
I added dregs I had saved from about 6 different bottles* and topped it up with fresh 1.020 wort. Full compliment of bugs, i.e., lacto, pedio, and brett. I filled it up to just below the short neck up to the mouth of the jug. Threw the airlock back on and shoved it in my cellar.
Do I need to put a blowoff on this??
I wouldn't expect very vigorous fermentation, but with so little headspace now, I worried a little. Thoughts?
*In case anyone is wondering, the dregs I added were...
Jester King RU55 + JK Provenance (initial dregs that fermented down to 0.097)
Crooked Stave Silly Cybies
JK Noble King Batch 15 (2014)
JK Wytchmaker Batch 16
Russian River Consecration
Russian River Supplication
I digress...I've got a one gallon jug that was supposed to be my first "big boy" sour (pulled off a gallon of saison after primary and pitched dregs; saison was at 1.000 going in). Well, I've decided instead to turn it into a horny tank.
Up until yesterday, it was only up to about the shoulders of the jug, lot of head space. Last night I decanted off some of the beer for a taste and gravity check. Gravity was at 0.097(!!!) and it had a nice tartness to it, some slight funk beginning, and a good bit of acetic acid, no doubt due to oxygen exposure with the ample headspace.
I added dregs I had saved from about 6 different bottles* and topped it up with fresh 1.020 wort. Full compliment of bugs, i.e., lacto, pedio, and brett. I filled it up to just below the short neck up to the mouth of the jug. Threw the airlock back on and shoved it in my cellar.
Do I need to put a blowoff on this??
I wouldn't expect very vigorous fermentation, but with so little headspace now, I worried a little. Thoughts?
*In case anyone is wondering, the dregs I added were...
Jester King RU55 + JK Provenance (initial dregs that fermented down to 0.097)
Crooked Stave Silly Cybies
JK Noble King Batch 15 (2014)
JK Wytchmaker Batch 16
Russian River Consecration
Russian River Supplication
