Yeast Question

[Kirkwooder]

You mean Troglodytarum Fororum, right? That would have been my first guess too.

Yes, exactly!

 

[brownni5]

So just so we're all on the same page, you're willing to send a sample off to a lab for evaluation, but not willing to take the most rudimentary home measurement because you, as an engineer mind you, find a hydrometer hard to read?

Yes, I'm sure wild speculation is far more valuable at this point. Nothing about this is suspect at all.

 

[Cash Is King]

So just so we're all on the same page, you're willing to send a sample off to a lab for evaluation, but not willing to take the most rudimentary home measurement because you, as an engineer mind you, find a hydrometer hard to read?

Yes, I'm sure wild speculation is far more valuable at this point. Nothing about this is suspect at all.

I'll put a hydrometer in it later tonight and get back with a SG reading... I am certain it will be a reading of unfermented oatmeal stout or somewhere there about.

I taste wort before, during and after fermentation... it has always been reliable enough for my needs.

Yes, exactly!

Thanks guys... I dig around on the web some

 

[brownni5]

I'll put a hydrometer in it later tonight and get back with a SG reading... I am certain it will be a reading of unfermented oatmeal stout or somewhere there about.

For those of you who may not understand gravity readings, what the exercise outlined here will tell us is exactly nothing. After admittedly pitching yeast more than 6 months ago, and without a gravity reading at that time, you simply cannot refer to a gravity reading now as "SG."

You know what has a gravity of unfermented oatmeal stout (for those keeping track, 1.045 - 1.065 according to BJCP guidelines)? Three Floyd's Dark Lord (I've heard it reported as 1.047). And since people line up to get it, I'll go ahead and assume that it has fermented.

 

[Vale71]

I'll put a hydrometer in it later tonight and get back with a SG reading... I am certain it will be a reading of unfermented oatmeal stout or somewhere there about.

Make sure you use the right type of hydrometer, you wouldn't want to get a reading of unfermented Pale Ale by mistake.

 

[Cash Is King]

SG is 1.058... and just like before very sweet with plenty of malt/chocolate on my tongue. Zero fermentation evident.

Pitched a Belle Saison Danstar I had in the refrigerator (it is 2 months out of date, but whatever).

Temp is 67 degrees... verified with three thermometers.

We shall see.

 

[Qhrumphf]

For those of you who may not understand gravity readings, what the exercise outlined here will tell us is exactly nothing. After admittedly pitching yeast more than 6 months ago, and without a gravity reading at that time, you simply cannot refer to a gravity reading now as "SG."

You know what has a gravity of unfermented oatmeal stout (for those keeping track, 1.045 - 1.065 according to BJCP guidelines)? Three Floyd's Dark Lord (I've heard it reported as 1.047). And since people line up to get it, I'll go ahead and assume that it has fermented.

What on earth are you talking about?

Specific gravity is specific gravity. As long as it's degassed and temp accounted for, a hydrometer will read it.

May not be the *original* gravity. But the gravity can indeed be read.

 

[Soulshine2]

maybe its not original gravity at all and just slightly used or a reproduction gravity. I take wild speculation readings with a calibrated zymurgation device. In fact , I got mine on Craigslist, rare and barely used , got a great deal on it.

 

[brownni5]

What on earth are you talking about?

Specific gravity is specific gravity. As long as it's degassed and temp accounted for, a hydrometer will read it.

May not be the *original* gravity. But the gravity can indeed be read.

My mistake - I meant OG - was thinking "starting" gravity.

 

[Comfort_Zone]

For those of you who may not understand gravity readings, what the exercise outlined here will tell us is exactly nothing. After admittedly pitching yeast more than 6 months ago, and without a gravity reading at that time, you simply cannot refer to a gravity reading now as "SG."

You know what has a gravity of unfermented oatmeal stout (for those keeping track, 1.045 - 1.065 according to BJCP guidelines)? Three Floyd's Dark Lord (I've heard it reported as 1.047). And since people line up to get it, I'll go ahead and assume that it has fermented.

Dark Lord is far higher than 1.047

 

[Comfort_Zone]

Also, now that belle saison has been pitched we can determine a few things. If no fermentation happens that means that either there's No fermentables or there's something killing the yeast because not only is it diastatic but if memory serves me well most saison and Belgian yeasts are unique in that they are often killer neutral.

 

[Comfort_Zone]

Bump?
Any luck? Are we to assume from the silence that this has been a failure?

 

[Cash Is King]

We do a lot of home brews... most are good to great...

But every once in a while... they suck!

We save those for the bears...

 

[Cash Is King]

ABV was good, but the flavor was all wrong... don't know... don't care... bears need love too.