_Keven
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Hello, I'm brewing a Belgian quad using wyeast 3787 and its now reached FG at 1.018 (OG was 1.091) so its roughly 9.6%. Now we're 9 weeks out from brew day so I'm planning on adding yeast for bottling as its likely the Belgian yeast has gone dormant. My local home brew shop says they only have US-05 for bottling yeast which has a slightly higher attenuation than the wyeast 3787 (about 3-4% higher attenuation). I'm a bit concerned that I may run the risk of bottle bombs if I use this strain of yeast. One question I have is can I just pitch a pack of US-05 into my fermenter and let it get to a slightly lower FG and then bottle the beer? Or at this high alc percentage would the yeast go dormant pretty fast? Would it just be better to bottle with the yeast immediately?