Ok so I've been brewing for long enough now (about 6 years) but since my son was born 2 years ago my brew sessions have been few and far between, and I've not read nearly as much as I used to nor kept up with the forums here....
I brewed a 'batch' partigyle a couple weeks ago. I used enough grain and water to get a nice high gravity robust porter with the first runnings, and then I did a single batch sparge and have a brown ale for the second runnings. Mashed at 152. OG of the high gravity batch was 1.091, OG for the second batch was 1.055. I used Wyeast 1968 (English ESB) that was pulled off a fermenter at Cigar City. Pretty sure I added a VERY healthy amount of yeast to each considering they were both bubbling away in less than 4 hours. The bigger batch fermented out 1.030 and has been sitting there for a week, so I don't expect it to drop any more. It's a bit sweeter than I was hoping for, although after I add some coffee beans to secondary hopefully that will help balance it out... Question is, should I hit it with some yeast that is a little more alchohol tolerant than the ESB yeast to hopefully dry it out some more?
I brewed a 'batch' partigyle a couple weeks ago. I used enough grain and water to get a nice high gravity robust porter with the first runnings, and then I did a single batch sparge and have a brown ale for the second runnings. Mashed at 152. OG of the high gravity batch was 1.091, OG for the second batch was 1.055. I used Wyeast 1968 (English ESB) that was pulled off a fermenter at Cigar City. Pretty sure I added a VERY healthy amount of yeast to each considering they were both bubbling away in less than 4 hours. The bigger batch fermented out 1.030 and has been sitting there for a week, so I don't expect it to drop any more. It's a bit sweeter than I was hoping for, although after I add some coffee beans to secondary hopefully that will help balance it out... Question is, should I hit it with some yeast that is a little more alchohol tolerant than the ESB yeast to hopefully dry it out some more?
