prrriiide
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Brewed a big IPA on 9/2 for a festival. Fermented at 65* for 8 days in primary. Dry-hopped on 9/7. Transferred to secondary to clear on 9/10, held at 48* for 7 days. Kegged yesterday and laid gas to it.
Out of the fermenter, tasted as expected. Dry-hopped then tasted at transfer to secondary: tasted like a killer IPA, hop profile exactly what I want. Today, after 30 hours on gas, it's a carbonated butter bomb. WTH happened? Where did the diacetyl come from? I was obsessive about oxygen uptake in transfers, pitched a huge starter of s-05. I'm at a loss.
The grav finished 5 points higher than BeerSmith projected. Is that it? The unfinished sugars? Or did I pull it off of the yeast to soon? I don't think so; I've only had one beer take over a week getting to FG. That was a 1.102 RIS. I've never had a 1.080 - 1.090 beer take more than a week to hit terminal.
OG: 1.077
FG: 1.016
20g batch
90 min recirc mash @ 148*
90 min boil
15# 2-row
15# pils
9# Vienna
8# Munich 10
3# Cara-pils
2# Crystal 40
2# Dextrose
This beast had a huge hop schedule...1 oz at 90, then an addition every 5 minutes from 60 to flame out, 26 oz total in the boil. 18 additions in all. 14 oz in dry hop.
The biggest question: can I fix this in less than a week, carbonated? I could pitch more yeast into the kegs tomorrow and hold at room temp, but I have no idea what that will do in carbonated beer. Would I get a gusher? I think so...
Out of the fermenter, tasted as expected. Dry-hopped then tasted at transfer to secondary: tasted like a killer IPA, hop profile exactly what I want. Today, after 30 hours on gas, it's a carbonated butter bomb. WTH happened? Where did the diacetyl come from? I was obsessive about oxygen uptake in transfers, pitched a huge starter of s-05. I'm at a loss.
The grav finished 5 points higher than BeerSmith projected. Is that it? The unfinished sugars? Or did I pull it off of the yeast to soon? I don't think so; I've only had one beer take over a week getting to FG. That was a 1.102 RIS. I've never had a 1.080 - 1.090 beer take more than a week to hit terminal.
OG: 1.077
FG: 1.016
20g batch
90 min recirc mash @ 148*
90 min boil
15# 2-row
15# pils
9# Vienna
8# Munich 10
3# Cara-pils
2# Crystal 40
2# Dextrose
This beast had a huge hop schedule...1 oz at 90, then an addition every 5 minutes from 60 to flame out, 26 oz total in the boil. 18 additions in all. 14 oz in dry hop.
The biggest question: can I fix this in less than a week, carbonated? I could pitch more yeast into the kegs tomorrow and hold at room temp, but I have no idea what that will do in carbonated beer. Would I get a gusher? I think so...