This is still very much at the planning stage at the moment but I'm thinking I might try my hand at a double IPA at some point this year. I'm not usually one for super strong beers but I think that it might be a fun experiment.
I've been playing around trying to formulate a recipe and I have one which comes in at a little over 10% abv.
I'm not a big fan of US-05/wlp001 and it's variants as I like some English yeast character in my beer. I'm also not a fan of Nottingham yeast. It's fine but doesn't really add much to a beer and I like a nice estery English strain.
I'm looking for an English yeast that will ferment up to 10 or 11% and also finish dry. I'm going to add two tins of golden syrup to help dry it out but I don't want something that gets to 8% and drops out leaving me with a gravity of 1.030 or similar.
Any suggestions?
Alternatively, what about using a second yeast? Maybe ferment with my preferred English strain then add something like Saflager S-189 which is good to 14% to finish off.
I've been playing around trying to formulate a recipe and I have one which comes in at a little over 10% abv.
I'm not a big fan of US-05/wlp001 and it's variants as I like some English yeast character in my beer. I'm also not a fan of Nottingham yeast. It's fine but doesn't really add much to a beer and I like a nice estery English strain.
I'm looking for an English yeast that will ferment up to 10 or 11% and also finish dry. I'm going to add two tins of golden syrup to help dry it out but I don't want something that gets to 8% and drops out leaving me with a gravity of 1.030 or similar.
Any suggestions?
Alternatively, what about using a second yeast? Maybe ferment with my preferred English strain then add something like Saflager S-189 which is good to 14% to finish off.