Yeast starter to re-pitch another brew

[gnresende]

Hi.

I have a Barley wine that has a stuck fermentation (OG: 1.052 FG: 1.020)

I am going to brew a Brewferm Abdji Beer kit and I am thinking of doing a Yeast Starter and to pour some of this starter in the Barley Wine and pour the rest to the Abji ferment.

Should I do this or is there a better way to deal with this issue?

 

[ColoHox]

Try swirling the yeast around and warming up your fermenter.

Was this an extract batch?

 

[m00ps]

wait....what? a barleywine with an OG of 1.052???

 

[Gavin C]

If it's a barley wine there is no way your OG was 1.05ish. Was this an extract kit? Did you measure gravity after adding the top up water. This commonly leads to under measuring the OG.

What was the OG listed on the kit instructions (if it was a kit with extract). That's your OG assuming the vloume in the FV was correct.

if so. and FG of 1.020 is fine for a Barley wine. No problem to solve. The OG on the other hand. That's the questionable reading.

Adding a few hundred Billion yeast at this stage to an FV containing trillions of yeast will do nothing unless you tried a champagne yeas. That would not be a good idea though.

 

[gnresende]

Hi.

This was a Beer Kit. This kit shows that the OG should be between 1060° and 1064.

This kit should do 13 L but I top up to almost 14 L. I added 1 KG of Light Malt Extract to this Kit. I took a Hydrometer reading and it showed OG: 1,052... Should I make this different??

The temperature was about 70 F and the next day was 75 F (effect of the fermentation, I think)

After one week, the temperature was about 70 F and the FG: 1,020.
Today I took another sample and the FG is 1,020 but the beer tastes really well and appears to be clean. I wonder what a well-made barley wine should taste.


But I am not sure if I should bottle it...

 

[gnresende]

Try swirling the yeast around and warming up your fermenter.

Was this an extract batch?

I tried to do it... but it didn't start to bubble... :|

 

[gnresende]

If it's a barley wine there is no way your OG was 1.05ish. Was this an extract kit? Did you measure gravity after adding the top up water. This commonly leads to under measuring the OG.

Hi.

When should I measure gravity? I measured after pitching the Yeast but when I saw that the OG was 1.052... that seems too low... and I put 1Kg of Light Dry Malt Extract.

 

[eadavis80]

You are to measure your OG prior to pitching yeast.

 

[gnresende]

You are to measure your OG prior to pitching yeast.

If I measure after pitching the Yeast, the value of OG will be significantly lower?

 

[brewkinger]

If I measure after pitching the Yeast, the value of OG will be significantly lower?

If you measure soon after pitching yeast, it will not matter.
Once fermentation starts then the gravity will be lower.

Back to the OG discussion...
A barley wine recipe with an OG of 1.060-1.064 sounds wierd to me.
I think something is wrong here.
My barley wine recipe has an OG of 1.100

 

[gnresende]

Yes, I measured just after pitching.

I bought this beer kit (OG: 1.060-1.064):
http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/acatalog/Muntons_Barley_Wine_24_pint.html#.VhZF2vlViko

I would like to do a real barley wine recipe but I still didn't do all-grain brew.


If we use Light Malt Extract, the FG will be higher than using dextrose, right?
Could this explain the FG of 1.020?

 

[eadavis80]

Yeah, if you take the gravity right after pitching, it's no big deal - fermentation would not have started yet. To find ABV, take OG-FG x 131.5. I always try to take my OG right before I pitch though. Good luck on the barley wine. Never done one, but that OG did seem low from what I've read.

 

[gnresende]

Yeah... I hope that it gets to be a good beer, although it won't be a great barley wine.

Thanks for your help