my latest experience with BS: i brewed a 1.091 all-citra IIPA. wlp007 got me down to 1.024'ish, which was too high (might have worked as an american barleywine but that wasn't what i had in mind). so i used BS to drive down attenuation. i pitched about one and a quarter packs into about 2.5 liters of 1.060 starter, gave it an hour with the stir-bar, then 8 hours without, and pitched into the IIPA.
i would have been happy with 1.012-1.014... but ooooooh not, not with BS: 1.007. that puts me at about 11.8% abv. effing hell.
bottled this past friday (5 days ago). sample tasted great. i didn't detect any alcohol heat and it didn't taste thin.
given how aggro BS is, there is a chance the beer is already carb'ed. i'll give it a taste this weekend.
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the other 3/4 of the second pack went into a saison that 3724 got an OG of 1.061 down to somewhere in the upper 1.020's (don't have my notes with me at the moment). BS got it down to 1.002 (7.9% abv). also bottled last friday. will also give a taste this weekend.
i have lower expectations on this one: it was kept hot on the 3724 cake for too long. i got some autolysis off-flavors from it. that'll teach me to try to get 3724 to finish the job.
i would have been happy with 1.012-1.014... but ooooooh not, not with BS: 1.007. that puts me at about 11.8% abv. effing hell.
bottled this past friday (5 days ago). sample tasted great. i didn't detect any alcohol heat and it didn't taste thin.
given how aggro BS is, there is a chance the beer is already carb'ed. i'll give it a taste this weekend.
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the other 3/4 of the second pack went into a saison that 3724 got an OG of 1.061 down to somewhere in the upper 1.020's (don't have my notes with me at the moment). BS got it down to 1.002 (7.9% abv). also bottled last friday. will also give a taste this weekend.
i have lower expectations on this one: it was kept hot on the 3724 cake for too long. i got some autolysis off-flavors from it. that'll teach me to try to get 3724 to finish the job.