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Absolutely! I currently have a very similar version of beer (except kettle soured) in secondary and it is tasting fantastic. I used about 5-6 Goodbelly LP299v pills (L. Plantarum) in about 7'ish gallons of wort. Let it ride for 48 hours and it was down to a pH of 3.4.

Thanks for the replies! I harvested some initially harvested some 3787 from starter so I'm going to use that and build it up a bit to see if it'll bring it down some more. Even just getting below 1.015 would be fine with me. I'll post an update as soon as I've got some results!

It's been almost 2 weeks since I brewed up this recipe and unfortunately I'm sitting quite a bit high still at 1.018. I ran a Forced Fermentation Test and I was able to get down to 1.011 so I'm thinking that I must have just not pitched enough yeast or had enough pure O2 in there or something...

Houblon, thank you so much for this recipe. Easily the best beer I've ever made and a near perfect copy of the real thing. Cheers!

I'm new to kegging (this is the first batch that I'm going to keg) and I just transferred it from the secondary into the keg. I saw earlier in this thread that 3.5-4 vol was appropriate for this beer. I was wondering what people used to get to that volume? I was going to do something like this...

I just brewed this recipe on Saturday afternoon and I had a quick question regarding secondary. Do most of you rack to a secondary vessel before starting the lagering/dry-hopping? Or do you just leave it in the primary and add directly? I don't think 5 weeks on top of yeast is too long but I...