kiwipen
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It's a big beer. OG 1.085, FG 1.017, ABV 9%. 70 grams of hops. I used 4 packs of S04, not quite enough for this beer according to brewers friend with a pitch rate of 1 million cells/ml/degree plato. I've used the same amount of different dry yeast before, just not in such a strong beer.
The mash and sparge got stuck, resulting in me stirring a lot in the grain to try to fix it.
One fifth (1,3 gallons of 6,6 gallons) of the volume in the fermenter is trub.
The fermenter is a white bucket that's opaque enough for me to see how much is in it and how much trub is up against the walls, but not any more.
Is this because of all the yeast and the OG? Because of the stuck mash and sparge? Could it just be trub sticking to the wall making it look like it's more than it really is?
The mash and sparge got stuck, resulting in me stirring a lot in the grain to try to fix it.
One fifth (1,3 gallons of 6,6 gallons) of the volume in the fermenter is trub.
The fermenter is a white bucket that's opaque enough for me to see how much is in it and how much trub is up against the walls, but not any more.
Is this because of all the yeast and the OG? Because of the stuck mash and sparge? Could it just be trub sticking to the wall making it look like it's more than it really is?