When your Double Bastard clone goes wrong...

[Gixxer]

Meh... I made some mistakes making the yeast happy enough to finish out a Double Bastard Clone... OG 1.107, finished at 1.030. Sweet... Raisins... Bitter... Not looking for help just complaining out loud more or less... Guess we will see what this one tastes like in a year. Probably like butt because I didnt plan on aging this one much, I didnt CO2 purge the bottling bucket before I filled it... Changes noted for the next try. I dunno... maybe I should drink it young while its bitter cause it covers the sweetness a bit...

 

[BigJack]

What yeast did you use?

 

[Gixxer]

I used Edinburgh Wlp028. If treated nicely it has the ability to handle high grav, but I had a vial that was 7 months old, and had to really be patient with the starter, and I think I calculated a little too generously with the viability to start.

 

[ultravista]

Please post your recipe ...

 

[Gixxer]

Next time I need to use 007 instead of 028. When I make my starters I calculate for 1M per mL per ° Plato so I shouldnt be underpitching. But I think I did because I probably had less than 1% viability to start, which is what I calculated for. But no real way to calculate that without actually looking under the glass.


2.5gl batch
OG 1.107
FG 1.030
MASh temp 147


4.0 oz Rice Hulls (0.0 SRM) 2.3 %
9 lbs 2.7 oz Pale Malt 85.2 %
14.8 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L 8.6 %
2.7 oz Special B Malt (180.0 SRM) 1.6 %
2.7 oz Special Roast (50.0 SRM) 1.6 %
1.3 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) 0.8 %
17.03 g Chinook [13.00 %] - Boil 90.0 min 49.4 IBUs
9.46 g Chinook [13.00 %] - Boil 20.0 min 15.5 IBUs
9.46 g Chinook [13.00 %] - Boil 15.0 min 12.7 IBUs
9.46 g Chinook [13.00 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 9.3 IBUs
9.46 g Chinook [13.00 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 5.1 IBUs
0.50 tsp Yeast Nutrient (Boil 5.0 mins) Other 12 -
9.50 g Chinook [13.00 %] - Boil 0.0 min 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg Edinburgh Ale (White Labs #WLP028)
0.50 Items Aeration Pure O2 (Primary 2.0 mins