bctdi
Well-Known Member
This is the 1st time using 1469 yeast. I have an ordinary english bitter in the fermentor (3.7%) abv beer. It's almost down to terminal gravity 1.014 last night and I have been ramping up temps as usual to allow the yeast to finish, but I want to brew an english barleywine this thurs and pitch onto the yeast cake of the bitter. My question is how long will it take to get the yeast to floc to the bottom so that I have plenty to pitch onto for the barleywine? I am planning on dropping the temp tomorrow to 50f, then thurs morning transfer the beer to keg, then raise the temp back up to 65f prior to adding the barleywine. Does this sound like a good plan? or can I wait another day to crash the yeast and still have good flocculation? I want to let the yeast finish the current beer as much as possible though.