the force is strong with US-05

[odie]

brewed an RIS with maple...

OG was 1.102 when I pitched 22 grams of US-05 on 6 August.

After a few days I dumped in a quart/32 oz of pure maple syrup. was about 4.5 in the keg/fermenter so now about 4.75 gal total volume.

I'm guessing the maple added about 12-13 points...so estimated/corrected OG is 1.114/1.115 ???

On the 14th...only 8 days...

gravity check is 1.032

I'm at 10.7% and maybe still going?

 

[hotbeer]

You might have added 19 or 20 points. While US-05's attenuation rate is within that, it's already in it's limits for alcohol tolerance. So hope that you get every bit of the 11% they claim and more. Or it's going to be very sweet.

Curious why you went with US-05. I like it for regular pale ales and things that aren't big beers.

I'm at 10.7% and maybe still going?

Hopefully maybe!

 

[Tartan1]

brewed an RIS with maple

What grain/hop bill did you use for your RIS? The addition of maple syrup is an interesting one, looking forward to any followup reports on this post fermentation.

 

[odie]

You might have added 19 or 20 points. While US-05's attenuation rate is within that, it's already in it's limits for alcohol tolerance. So hope that you get every bit of the 11% they claim and more. Or it's going to be very sweet.

Curious why you went with US-05. I like it for regular pale ales and things that aren't big beers.


Hopefully maybe!

maple is supposedly 1.031 PPG so 31/5 is 6.2 points.. I used 2 pounds and slightly less than 5 gallons...I really don't see 19-20 points.

I've used 05 to go over 13%. give it time....time...

 

[mac_1103]

I just kegged a 5 gallon batch of Imperial IPA fermented with two packs of US-05 and my experience suggests that it is not hard to get attenuation and ABV beyond the specs if you pitch enough. And now that I have a clear fermenter I realize that there's also very little lag if you pitch enough - yeast rafts were forming and small bubbles rising with two hours, even if it was a full day before the blow-off was bubbling.

But more on topic for this thread -



edit - so that's OG around 1.121 and FG around 1.023 for those of you who can't covert plato to SG in your heads.