mattmmille
Well-Known Member
I have a strawberry blonde ale in primary and I pitched Denny's Favorite #50 yeast smack pack. Six pounds of whole, frozen strawberries were added after flame-out at 170F. I used too much water and wound up with a 1-1/2 gallon plain blonde, in addition to 6 gallons strawberry. For the small plain batch, I pitched Safale s-04 yeast. The OG came up way short. Next day, I drew off a gallon of the strawberry wort and boiled it with 3 lbs DME for 15 minutes. 13-1/2 cups added back to strawberry and 3-1/2 cups added back to plain, after cooling. That was supposed to raise SG to 1.053 range, but only got 1.040. I can live with that, if fermentation completes; but it looks like I'm stuck at 1.024 after 9 days in primary. Fermentation action was pretty vigorous for the strawberry blonde...I had a blow off on it and it was needed. The plain was slow, but attained the same SG.
So, the question is: Should I go ahead and rack these batches and/or pitch more/different yeast?
So, the question is: Should I go ahead and rack these batches and/or pitch more/different yeast?