peregrinebio
Well-Known Member
Hi all,
I've posted about this beer a couple of months ago and I'm still fighting with it. I'd like some input on my current idea for reviving this beer. Here is its history up to now.
I'm brewing a beefed up version of the Kentucky Breakfast Stout clone for the 2nd time. 1st time went great, went from 1.11 to 1.029 with only a vial of WLP001 being pitched (forgot to make a starter until too late).
Anyhow this time I pitched a 1L starter of WLP001 into a 1.115 wort on July 24th. On Aug 15th the grav was only at 1.042 and I'm aiming for a 1.030 FG. I tried rousing with no success. On Aug 22nd the grav was the same so I pitched another 1L of WLP001, well aerated, and at high Krausen. As of today, 8/30, she hasn't budged.
On 9/14 I racked her on to the yeast cake of a 6.4% IPA. The gravity still didn't budge. I'm thinking there was too little O2 and too much alcohol for the yeast to restart.
So now I've finally gotten around to getting a vial of wlp099 high grav yeast. I've already made a 1.5 liter starter with it. Now I'm going to make another 2 1.5 liter starters.
My idea is when these starters are at high krausen, aerate the hell out of them and put them in a carboy. Then add an equal amount of my stout w/o aerating. After 6-12 hours add an equal amount of stout. Repeat this method until all my stout is in the carboy. This will allow my starter yeast to ramp up to the high alcohol environment. Any thoughts???
Cheers!
I've posted about this beer a couple of months ago and I'm still fighting with it. I'd like some input on my current idea for reviving this beer. Here is its history up to now.
I'm brewing a beefed up version of the Kentucky Breakfast Stout clone for the 2nd time. 1st time went great, went from 1.11 to 1.029 with only a vial of WLP001 being pitched (forgot to make a starter until too late).
Anyhow this time I pitched a 1L starter of WLP001 into a 1.115 wort on July 24th. On Aug 15th the grav was only at 1.042 and I'm aiming for a 1.030 FG. I tried rousing with no success. On Aug 22nd the grav was the same so I pitched another 1L of WLP001, well aerated, and at high Krausen. As of today, 8/30, she hasn't budged.
On 9/14 I racked her on to the yeast cake of a 6.4% IPA. The gravity still didn't budge. I'm thinking there was too little O2 and too much alcohol for the yeast to restart.
So now I've finally gotten around to getting a vial of wlp099 high grav yeast. I've already made a 1.5 liter starter with it. Now I'm going to make another 2 1.5 liter starters.
My idea is when these starters are at high krausen, aerate the hell out of them and put them in a carboy. Then add an equal amount of my stout w/o aerating. After 6-12 hours add an equal amount of stout. Repeat this method until all my stout is in the carboy. This will allow my starter yeast to ramp up to the high alcohol environment. Any thoughts???
Cheers!