Hi All,
I've had really bad luck with a DIPA fermentation and I can't wrap my head around what could have gone wrong. The recipe is basically a Pliny clone. My original gravity was 1.082 and I pitched about 400 ml of fresh slurry from a previous primary into the new wort (about 6 gallons). Fermentation started within about 10 hours and was vigorous by about 18 hours. So everything looked good, and I thought I could expect decent attenuation. Tonight I took a reading thinking that primary was about done but to my intense dismay the reading was 1.038. Any ideas why this could be? It's still fermenting slowly, but since I'm 11 days in I would have expected it to be finished.
Thanks,
Sean
I've had really bad luck with a DIPA fermentation and I can't wrap my head around what could have gone wrong. The recipe is basically a Pliny clone. My original gravity was 1.082 and I pitched about 400 ml of fresh slurry from a previous primary into the new wort (about 6 gallons). Fermentation started within about 10 hours and was vigorous by about 18 hours. So everything looked good, and I thought I could expect decent attenuation. Tonight I took a reading thinking that primary was about done but to my intense dismay the reading was 1.038. Any ideas why this could be? It's still fermenting slowly, but since I'm 11 days in I would have expected it to be finished.
Thanks,
Sean