High Gravity Beer problem

[jjp36]

How does it taste? Also, i would let it sit for a while. That is a huge beer. The gravity still might drop some more.

Alright checked yesterday on the gravity and it is at 1.060. So I checked two days later and still at 1.060

Can i borrow your delorean sometime?

 

[phatuna]

My vote is for you to pitch again! Last time you were able to drop it by .030

I show your abv @ 6.56% right now.

Even if you can't get it to drop any further, bottle it up and feed it to your friends. Somebody will probably like it.

 

[Yooper]

My vote is for you to pitch again! Last time you were able to drop it by .030

I show your abv @ 6.56% right now.

Even if you can't get it to drop any further, bottle it up and feed it to your friends. Somebody will probably like it.

Maybe hold onto it, and start a new beer. Once the new beer is done, rack this maple beer onto the yeast cake of the new beer. That might get it going again.

 

[Adam78K]

K I will repitch it tonight and see what happens thanks again and I will update the status of the beer in a week or so.

 

[Yooper]

K I will repitch it tonight and see what happens thanks again and I will update the status of the beer in a week or so.

I wouldn't bother repitching. You already have a high alcohol environment, and you'll need a huge yeast starter to even think about fermenting what you've got. I'd either make a ginormous starter, or pitch on a finished cake. Otherwise, you're just wasting yeast.

 

[Adam78K]

Lol now I'm confused by repitching I mean pitching a new packet of dry nottingham yeast into the fermentor.

 

[Adam78K]

Lol now I'm confused by repitching I mean pitching a new packet of dry nottingham yeast into the fermentor.

 

[Yooper]

Lol now I'm confused by repitching I mean pitching a new packet of dry nottingham yeast into the fermentor.

Yes, I know that's what you meant. You can do that, of course- but I'm almost certain it won't work.

You've got an alcohol environment now, plus some preservatives in there. There's corn syrup, etc. If you just add some yeast, I don't think it'll reproduce well and ferment your beer.

I'd make a different beer. Once that beer is done, you can rack your maple beer right onto the yeast cake left behind from the new beer. That might be the only thing that would get this beer going again.

 

[slomo]

Adam I think its time to RDWAHAHB, and chalk it up to a learn experience. I do agree with Yooper you will need a big starter to get it going again, and the biggest one would be from another batch of beer.

 

[Adam78K]

I appreciate all of the help guys. I made a belgium wit beer today and its in the fermentor fermenting so hopefully in a week and a hlaf or so I can rack the mapple beer onto the yeast cake of the wit beer. Ill let you guys know how it goes.

 

[Adam78K]

I appreciate all of the help guys. I made a belgium wit beer today and its in the fermentor fermenting so hopefully in a week and a hlaf or so I can rack the mapple beer onto the yeast cake of the wit beer. Ill let you guys know how it goes.

 

[broadbill]

Good deal...I'm interested to hear how it goes.

For future reference, when pitching on a yeast cake keep in mind the type of yeast and the beer color of both of the beer that is producing the yeast cake and of the beer/wort you plan to pitch onto that cake afterward.

You always want to start with a lighter color/lower OG beer to produce the yeast cake (first beer) and pitch a darker/higher OG beer onto the cake (second beer).

Also consider beer styles. Here, you are going to pitch a Nut brown ale onto a Wit beer yeast cake. I know you are in salvage mode for the Nut brown, but that is probably not the right kind of yeast for that beer. Belgian Wits are made with some fairly specific yeast strains and produce some fairly distinct flavor/aromas. Not the kind of flavors/aromas you would necessarily want in that Nut Brown.

Pitching onto yeast cakes works best when you are either producing multiple batches of the same styles of beer, or the yeast is a neutral yeast that can be used in multiple styles.

Good luck!

 

[Adam78K]

racked it onto the cake about 4 days ago and checked the hydrometer, it's down to 1.050, .010 down from the last reading. I'm going to keep letting it go.

 

[Adam78K]

its down to 1.040 time to rack or should I continue to let it go?

 

[smitty2324]

You may also want to check your Ph. I've seen several people that have said that their Ph was off on a big beer. Once they got it back on range it can get the yeast to fully attenuate.

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

ROOKIE QUESTION COMIMG.......... by yeast cake, are you talking about the sediment in the bottom of the primary after fermenting the original batch?

 

[Jkane101]

its down to 1.040 time to rack or should I continue to let it go?

let it go...put the cover on it and walk away from it for another two weeks.

 

[HillbillyDeluxe]

Give it at least a week and take a reading

 

[corvax13]

its down to 1.040 time to rack or should I continue to let it go?

Let it go... ignore it, RDWHAHB, for a month. When it does indeed finish, chances are you are going to have all sorts of. . . interesting flavors that you may not necessarily want in your beer. This beer is huge, and it is my understanding that big beers need a few months to settle out.

ROOKIE QUESTION COMIMG.......... by yeast cake, are you talking about the sediment in the bottom of the primary after fermenting the original batch?

Yes.

 

[neosapien]

I know it's been 3 years since this thread was active, but I've been surprised by getting responses here before

I just brewed my first high gravity beer (big IIPA), and as all rookies do I get all scared and think "omgibrokedit" about everything. I've prowled around these parts enough to know that RDWHAHB really is the answer about 80% of the time; so that's what I do.

I appreciate this thread on here though and all the updates/feedback. This was a good informative one for me. I'm curious though how this one ended up. A follow up would be great. It sounds like...an adventure...of a beer.

 

[PoorBoy]

Hell, i'd be curious to how this played out. reading it was like watching daytime tv.