Hex
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Or is this just another "did I ruin it?" noob situation?
This is my fifth batch of beer--Pomegranate DimWit.
I made a high gravity 1.080 extract based wit beer and fermented with Wyeast 3944 Belgian Wit yeast.
Primary went great, temperature went from 65 to 72 as planned. Beautiful four inch Krausen settled down to a quarter inch over about a week.
I had a gallon of pomegranate juice that I had painstakingly fresh squeezed and frozen from homegrown fruit.
I added probably too much potassium metabisulfite to the thawed juice (less than a half teaspoon) and let it sit covered in a stainless steel pot for about 18 hours at room temp.
I then racked the juice to a fresh secondary carboy, and racked the Wit on top of the juice.
It's been four days and I'm stuck at 1.024.
Did I kill my beer?
Should I make a huge starter and repitch the same or different yeast?
I could always let it clear and force carbonate (I need a good reason to get into kegging), but the beer is a little sweet for my taste, but the pomegranate taste is there and the sweet/sour/bitter is almost balanced, just a little sweet.
This is my fifth batch of beer--Pomegranate DimWit.
I made a high gravity 1.080 extract based wit beer and fermented with Wyeast 3944 Belgian Wit yeast.
Primary went great, temperature went from 65 to 72 as planned. Beautiful four inch Krausen settled down to a quarter inch over about a week.
I had a gallon of pomegranate juice that I had painstakingly fresh squeezed and frozen from homegrown fruit.
I added probably too much potassium metabisulfite to the thawed juice (less than a half teaspoon) and let it sit covered in a stainless steel pot for about 18 hours at room temp.
I then racked the juice to a fresh secondary carboy, and racked the Wit on top of the juice.
It's been four days and I'm stuck at 1.024.
Did I kill my beer?
Should I make a huge starter and repitch the same or different yeast?
I could always let it clear and force carbonate (I need a good reason to get into kegging), but the beer is a little sweet for my taste, but the pomegranate taste is there and the sweet/sour/bitter is almost balanced, just a little sweet.