Repitching in secondary after adding coconut

[Armen_Tamzarian]

I just had a crazy idea and I'm seeking advice!

I brewed a batch of porter, and basically Murphy's law was enacted. I had a stuck sparge, sparged too much. My OG was 1.070 ish once I finally got it together. Then a heat wave struck a day after pitching my yeast (wyeast 1028/no starter) and the smack pack never really swelled up, I'm assuming because it was out in my hot house too long. Too top it off I drove 15 miles while moving, with my primary fermenter riding shot gun!

After all of this abuse, I tasted it roughly 3 weeks into primary and it tasted pretty good, sweet, but good. It was at 1.040 and instead of repitching, I just decided to rack it on top of 12 oz of toasted coconut.

So this is pretty much an awesomely experimental batch! I've never repitched and am thinking of throwing in some dry yeast on this tonight and see what happens. My yield is currently at about 3 gallons - whatever the coconut absorbs.

Any advice on if repitching will help/hurt or do anything. Or is this sweet coconut porter ready to be kegged?

fwiw, it's named Murphy's Coconut Porter: "Fermented at 60 mph"

I'm having a blast!

 

[JasontheBeaver]

Why do you want to repitch? To increase your abv? If it tastes good now I would say leave it until you're ready to take it off the coconut. You might be on your way to a GREAT beer and I doubt repitching will take it in a direction you want to go. Either way, keep us updated. A coconut porter is soon on list to make.

 

[Armen_Tamzarian]

Yea I was thinking ABV. Didn't know if it would be way too sweet. I'll give it a taste and meditate on it. It's been on coconut for a week, so I may be kegging after tasting.

 

[Armen_Tamzarian]

Also, I've never repitched and was kinda interested by it. I've just started doing starters (last two batches) so hopefully I won't have high FG's in the future