I brewed up an IPA with falconers flight hops roughly 3 weeks ago. 13 lbs AG batch. Hit my mash temp at 150 overnight. 1.062 OG. Yeast was white labs California Ale yeast.
I don't know if my yeast pooped out or what, but 2 weeks in I did a hydro reading and it was 1.02 🙄 Tasted kind of sweet still. Highly dissapointing
Another IPA I had brewed the same weekend finished to 1.01 using us-05. So I racked it into the keg and racked my stuck falconers flight onto the us-05 healthy yeast cake. I even double punched it with an additional packet of us-05 for extra insurance. Subsequently a mini Krausen developed overnight and there's been steady airlock activity. This was 5 days ago
Today I took a sample hoping for something good ... and it was still 1.02
It was actually no longer sweet tasting, at all, it tasted *better* but no gravity change.
Wtf???
Any idea about the change in taste, the visual evidence of fermentation, but no gravity change? Should I just keg it now and be done with it?
Patrick
I don't know if my yeast pooped out or what, but 2 weeks in I did a hydro reading and it was 1.02 🙄 Tasted kind of sweet still. Highly dissapointing
Another IPA I had brewed the same weekend finished to 1.01 using us-05. So I racked it into the keg and racked my stuck falconers flight onto the us-05 healthy yeast cake. I even double punched it with an additional packet of us-05 for extra insurance. Subsequently a mini Krausen developed overnight and there's been steady airlock activity. This was 5 days ago
Today I took a sample hoping for something good ... and it was still 1.02
It was actually no longer sweet tasting, at all, it tasted *better* but no gravity change.
Wtf???
Any idea about the change in taste, the visual evidence of fermentation, but no gravity change? Should I just keg it now and be done with it?
Patrick