LordofMisrule
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Hi Forum-users!
So. I started a barleywine in honour of almost completing my doctorate. After mashing and a long ass-boil, I got the OG to 1.150 and started it off with an ale yeast and a red wine yeast mixed with some yeast nutrient, figuring that the ale yeast would break down the long malt sugars, and the wine yeast would give it some oomph once the ale yeast had been subdued by the alcohol.
Naive, right? So it got to a gravity of c. 1.100 and both yeasts conked out. I added half a bag of turbo distillers yeast, thinking that they had both been conked out. In the time since, I have read that red wine yeast is referred to as a 'killer' yeast, meaning that the yeasty relationship at the start was possibly less buddy comedy and more pycho thriller. Further, unless I've read wrong, it means that the wine yeast has also killed the distillers yeast before it could do any good.
This morning, I gave the bin a good shake around, whisked the top and added a bottle of Puck Goat, my Lambic Dark Ale, hoping that the Brett and other bugs would be resistant to the wine yeasts' poison. I somehow doubt that anyone would be willing to drink a beer which is 5% ABV, flat, and sweet as treacle. Bearing in mind that Convertase seems to be unobtainable in the UK, is there anything I can do, or do I have 2 gallons of expensive BBQ marinade?
So. I started a barleywine in honour of almost completing my doctorate. After mashing and a long ass-boil, I got the OG to 1.150 and started it off with an ale yeast and a red wine yeast mixed with some yeast nutrient, figuring that the ale yeast would break down the long malt sugars, and the wine yeast would give it some oomph once the ale yeast had been subdued by the alcohol.
Naive, right? So it got to a gravity of c. 1.100 and both yeasts conked out. I added half a bag of turbo distillers yeast, thinking that they had both been conked out. In the time since, I have read that red wine yeast is referred to as a 'killer' yeast, meaning that the yeasty relationship at the start was possibly less buddy comedy and more pycho thriller. Further, unless I've read wrong, it means that the wine yeast has also killed the distillers yeast before it could do any good.
This morning, I gave the bin a good shake around, whisked the top and added a bottle of Puck Goat, my Lambic Dark Ale, hoping that the Brett and other bugs would be resistant to the wine yeasts' poison. I somehow doubt that anyone would be willing to drink a beer which is 5% ABV, flat, and sweet as treacle. Bearing in mind that Convertase seems to be unobtainable in the UK, is there anything I can do, or do I have 2 gallons of expensive BBQ marinade?