Hello,
I'm currently doing an English bitter. The OG was 1.047 which gave me a partial mash efficiency of about 75% I think. I reused a Gervin Ale yeast harvested on the day of pitching new brew. Used about 150ml washed from the slurry. It's been sitting between 62 and 68f for 2 weeks and is only at 1.014. The last brew I did with this yeast (fresh from pack) got down to about 1.007. This brew at 1.014 tastes a little sweet which leads me to believe the yeast might have bonked out due to me not pitching enough or something? Any ideas?
Maybe it just needs another 2 weeks? Would have thought those temps were ideal.
Either way, I'm not too bothered, just curious as to what you might think? I'm going to test it again after another week and probably give it an additional week on top of that. I've ordered a fresh pack of Gervin Yeast in case you think I should pitch some more, i.e. if the yeast in there has possibly stressed out.
I'm currently doing an English bitter. The OG was 1.047 which gave me a partial mash efficiency of about 75% I think. I reused a Gervin Ale yeast harvested on the day of pitching new brew. Used about 150ml washed from the slurry. It's been sitting between 62 and 68f for 2 weeks and is only at 1.014. The last brew I did with this yeast (fresh from pack) got down to about 1.007. This brew at 1.014 tastes a little sweet which leads me to believe the yeast might have bonked out due to me not pitching enough or something? Any ideas?
Maybe it just needs another 2 weeks? Would have thought those temps were ideal.
Either way, I'm not too bothered, just curious as to what you might think? I'm going to test it again after another week and probably give it an additional week on top of that. I've ordered a fresh pack of Gervin Yeast in case you think I should pitch some more, i.e. if the yeast in there has possibly stressed out.