... that I didn't ask myself, when I moved a two month barrel aged stout from barrel to bottle.
Took a FG on it, showed about 8.5ABV, figured there would be enough yeast kicking around for bottle conditioning, added priming sugars, bottled and put it in the closet.
Been doing some "after the bottle" reading, and finding that I may have been off base and might have just bottled 5 gallons of beer that will be as flat in 4 weeks as they were when they went in the bottle.
S-04 was the strain used.
Generally just looking for thoughts/speculation from anyone who's experience with barrel aging is greater than "This is my first one." I know the only way to know for sure is to wait it out, but now I'm getting antsy to crack one (two days in bottle) and see if there is any carb.
Just one more reason I need to cough up the cash and move to forced carb...
Thanks.
Took a FG on it, showed about 8.5ABV, figured there would be enough yeast kicking around for bottle conditioning, added priming sugars, bottled and put it in the closet.
Been doing some "after the bottle" reading, and finding that I may have been off base and might have just bottled 5 gallons of beer that will be as flat in 4 weeks as they were when they went in the bottle.
S-04 was the strain used.
Generally just looking for thoughts/speculation from anyone who's experience with barrel aging is greater than "This is my first one." I know the only way to know for sure is to wait it out, but now I'm getting antsy to crack one (two days in bottle) and see if there is any carb.
Just one more reason I need to cough up the cash and move to forced carb...
Thanks.