Very Wild Saison ECY20

[lawbadger]

Subscribed. I brewed a rye saison three weeks ago and pitched ECY20 into five gallons of the batch. Interested to hear how these turn out especially with the timeframe to get past the sick/ropiness phase.

 

[smokinghole]

As long as I can get more 29mm caps today or tomorrow I am bottling this up. I split off three gallons with 4lbs of cherries in a small keg for a few months. I'm just dragging my feet. I have about 11 gal of beer to bottle at this point so it'll be a long bottling day. I've become lazy with corking. Now I use regular wine corks and then crown cap the bottles I still have plenty of bottles that are the belgian cork only style so I still have to twist cages from time to time.

I never noticed an extreme level of rope in this beer but then again I only brewed the most recent batch to 1.036 and hopped the hell out of the beer with fresh and aged hops. I meant to bottle this up sometime last year but my life got super hectic starting in the fall and things didn't settle down until mid April this year.

 

[badlee]

So did you get around to taking the fg reading?
I am interested to know if you think the lack of "sickness" is due to the relativly low og of the beer.

 

[smokinghole]

I will grab a gravity reading today for you. I don't think the lack of rope is due to low gravity I think it's the culture mix. In beers of similar gravity brewed with ECY cultures they got ropy and this culture did not. I will brew up a higher gravity beer maybe something like 1.065ish and see how the culture ferments that. If it goes all the way it'll be a pretty high abv brew.

 

[badlee]

Cool.
Thanks for that.
Do you per chance remember what went into your culture?

 

[smokinghole]

Gravity sits at 1.0015.

As to whats in there hmm. Everything from lindenmans, cantillon, hannsens, if it was a lambic/gueuze and i drank it I saved it and pitched just that. I did not prop it up just pitched straight in and let it ride.

 

[badlee]

Wow.
You did not add one too many zeros in that reading right?
That is amazing attenuation.
I am going to have to think about this for the future.
Cheers

 

[smokinghole]

Not a typo. I have a two set lab precision hydrometers. So I can measure out 4 sig. figs. reliably. It was pretty quick too, this is a voracious mix of microbes.