Garbage pail ale finished much lower than expected...

[phoenixs4r]

We decided to take some scraps of hops left about and throw it together with some pale and smoked malt for an experiment:

22lbs pale 2 row
2 lbs smoked malt (cherry wood, if that matters)
Mash@148F
Safeale 05

OG 1.062 @ 11.5 gallons (hit the numbers perfectly) Beersmith estimates our FG at 1.10

Sat for a month cause we got busy, kegged it today, down to 1.002.

Thermometers are calibrated.

Wild bug? Shows no signs. Tastes fine. Thoughts?

 

[idigg]

I saw another thread here stating it went to 1.002 with us05. Weird... my batches with us05 go no lower than 1.010 even at a month in primary. Did you mash for a long time or something?

 

[phoenixs4r]

I saw another thread here stating it went to 1.002 with us05. Weird... my batches with us05 go no lower than 1.010 even at a month in primary. Did you mash for a long time or something?

Nope normal 60 minutes. It created a damn good summer beer I'm just worried about being able to reproduce it next year! Lol

 

[J311gonzo]

I have this "problem" if you want to call it that with most of my beers... and I believe its because I do not do a yeast starter... do you? I was told that I get this crazy attenuation with my ales because of this.

 

[phoenixs4r]

Dry yeast, rehydrated only. I do this for all my beers and don't have this issue.

 

[b33rmug]

I have the orange wheat from another thread in the fermenter and the US-05 took it down to 1.004. I thought it was done earlier, but it's kept going.

 

[emjay]

I have this "problem" if you want to call it that with most of my beers... and I believe its because I do not do a yeast starter... do you? I was told that I get this crazy attenuation with my ales because of this.

You ever use 3711?

 

[ellijo89]

I actually just had the same problem as well. 1.05 OG, 154F mash temp, US-05. I over pitched just a touch but also didn't aerate like usual. I expected right around 10-12 FG, but checked it out of primary and it is looking to be right around 1.005. Just like yours mine tasted fine. Pretty confusing.