Went to California for a week, and left two unmarked primary buckets in the fridge. Today I came back and decided to bottle up my Belhaven. Well, too many Plinys and too little sleep over the week kept me from noticing that I pulled my DT bucket out! :cross: Boiled the corn sugar and sanitized the bottles on total autopilot....
So now I have 5 gallons of big, green Belgian beer in longnecks, Belhaven boppers, and Guinness 22s with only 3oz priming sugar! Right now I'm guessing I just have a LONG time to wait for a sorta flat beer that isn't horribly, bitterly green. It just takes longer to age in bottles, but they eventually get there, right? Should I pop them open and add some carbtabs?
Vitalstats:
OG 1.082 FG 1.010 - 88% apparent, 9.4% abv(!)
WLP530 67F for two days then slowly raised to 75F over two weeks (or as close as I can get with swapping ice bottles in a cooler). Cold conditioned at 45F for a week in the primary. Bottled while still cool, 50-55F?
And the hydro sample I just took of the Belhaven is so clean..
So now I have 5 gallons of big, green Belgian beer in longnecks, Belhaven boppers, and Guinness 22s with only 3oz priming sugar! Right now I'm guessing I just have a LONG time to wait for a sorta flat beer that isn't horribly, bitterly green. It just takes longer to age in bottles, but they eventually get there, right? Should I pop them open and add some carbtabs?
Vitalstats:
OG 1.082 FG 1.010 - 88% apparent, 9.4% abv(!)
WLP530 67F for two days then slowly raised to 75F over two weeks (or as close as I can get with swapping ice bottles in a cooler). Cold conditioned at 45F for a week in the primary. Bottled while still cool, 50-55F?
And the hydro sample I just took of the Belhaven is so clean..