Hi all,
I made a 3 gallon batch of the 2 hearted ale clone posted in BYO (except substituting the Centennial hops for Galaxy :rockin:
~80% 2-row
~15% Vienna
~4% Crystal 10
~2% Carapils
I (foolishly, I might add) did a step infusion mash of 30 mins at 147, then 30 at 154.
I fermented at 67 for a week, then moved it up to 73-74 for another 10 days. After all of this, it is still pretty cloudy but has attenuated all the way down to 1.006 (Again, the step infusion was a stupid idea as I had gotten some false information that this was a poor attenuator). After it stayed there for a couple of days I decided to bottle it up to have it ready in time for the holidays.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar issue with this yeast, or if this might have been a result of it just fermenting like crazy with the low mash temp. I'm relatively new to all grain and i want to enter a beer with this yeast for a competition, but obviously don't want a competition beer to be this cloudy.
Slightly The beer tastes pretty damn good, and I can't recommend these galaxy hops enough to anyone who hasn't tried them.
I made a 3 gallon batch of the 2 hearted ale clone posted in BYO (except substituting the Centennial hops for Galaxy :rockin:
~80% 2-row
~15% Vienna
~4% Crystal 10
~2% Carapils
I (foolishly, I might add) did a step infusion mash of 30 mins at 147, then 30 at 154.
I fermented at 67 for a week, then moved it up to 73-74 for another 10 days. After all of this, it is still pretty cloudy but has attenuated all the way down to 1.006 (Again, the step infusion was a stupid idea as I had gotten some false information that this was a poor attenuator). After it stayed there for a couple of days I decided to bottle it up to have it ready in time for the holidays.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had a similar issue with this yeast, or if this might have been a result of it just fermenting like crazy with the low mash temp. I'm relatively new to all grain and i want to enter a beer with this yeast for a competition, but obviously don't want a competition beer to be this cloudy.
Slightly The beer tastes pretty damn good, and I can't recommend these galaxy hops enough to anyone who hasn't tried them.