Brewed morebeer's extract barleywine kit: http://morebeer.com/products/barley-wine-extract-beer-kit.html
Ended up with an OG of 1.080.
Aerated for 1 minute from O2 canister.
Pitched 1.4 packs of rehydrated US-05 as per mrmalty.
Fermentation temps got away for me a bit for the first day... as high as 78F.
It's been 3 weeks and my gravity now reads 1.024. I'm assuming this fermentation has pooped out by now. This is the highest post fermentation gravity I've seen on the handful of brews I've done so far, leaving me with 70% attenuation. I usually get around 80% from US-05.
I've read the best way to re-spark a fermentation is to rack onto a cake from another brew. The only one I have available to me is a Belgian Abbey yeast cake. Would mixing strains like this to eek out another 0.006 or so be ill-advised? Other thoughts?
Recipe...
3 gallon boil
1lb Caramunich steeping grain
1lb Caravienne steeping grain
3 lbs LME for 60min
2 oz Magnum for 60min
2 oz Cascade for 5min
2 oz Cascade for 1min
9 lbs LME at flameout
Top off to 5 gallons
1.4 packs of 11.5g US-05
Thank you
Ended up with an OG of 1.080.
Aerated for 1 minute from O2 canister.
Pitched 1.4 packs of rehydrated US-05 as per mrmalty.
Fermentation temps got away for me a bit for the first day... as high as 78F.
It's been 3 weeks and my gravity now reads 1.024. I'm assuming this fermentation has pooped out by now. This is the highest post fermentation gravity I've seen on the handful of brews I've done so far, leaving me with 70% attenuation. I usually get around 80% from US-05.
I've read the best way to re-spark a fermentation is to rack onto a cake from another brew. The only one I have available to me is a Belgian Abbey yeast cake. Would mixing strains like this to eek out another 0.006 or so be ill-advised? Other thoughts?
Recipe...
3 gallon boil
1lb Caramunich steeping grain
1lb Caravienne steeping grain
3 lbs LME for 60min
2 oz Magnum for 60min
2 oz Cascade for 5min
2 oz Cascade for 1min
9 lbs LME at flameout
Top off to 5 gallons
1.4 packs of 11.5g US-05
Thank you