SweetMoFo
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Hi all,
I brewed a big IPA using US-05, I hand wrote the recipe on the fly and was planning a 90 min boil where I would add hops every 5 mins, this should of given me a nice 8-9% hoppy IPA.
This was my second brew of the day and I drank my way through the first one so writing a recipie for the second with no calculations was probably not the best idea, looking back at it now I realise my mistake. I worked out that 200 grams of hops over 90 mins was 5 grams every 5 mins with 10 grams FWH and 10 in the cube. Many beers later and 3 hours in to the boil I realised my error:wha:
Now instead of adding water to bring the gravity down a bit I just stuck it in a carboy and added some US-05. It started off at 1120 and finished off at 1030 making it 11.9%. I bottled it adding dextrose to carbonate it but 4 weeks on nothing. Tastes great but no carbonation.
It's in swing tops so I was thinking of adding some fresh yeast to see if it helps but I am a bit worried that if I use US-05 again it will do nothing as I read that it only works up to about 12% and if I use a yeast with a higher alcohol tolerance there is still plenty of sugars in there to make some great tasting bombs
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Chris
I brewed a big IPA using US-05, I hand wrote the recipe on the fly and was planning a 90 min boil where I would add hops every 5 mins, this should of given me a nice 8-9% hoppy IPA.
This was my second brew of the day and I drank my way through the first one so writing a recipie for the second with no calculations was probably not the best idea, looking back at it now I realise my mistake. I worked out that 200 grams of hops over 90 mins was 5 grams every 5 mins with 10 grams FWH and 10 in the cube. Many beers later and 3 hours in to the boil I realised my error:wha:
Now instead of adding water to bring the gravity down a bit I just stuck it in a carboy and added some US-05. It started off at 1120 and finished off at 1030 making it 11.9%. I bottled it adding dextrose to carbonate it but 4 weeks on nothing. Tastes great but no carbonation.
It's in swing tops so I was thinking of adding some fresh yeast to see if it helps but I am a bit worried that if I use US-05 again it will do nothing as I read that it only works up to about 12% and if I use a yeast with a higher alcohol tolerance there is still plenty of sugars in there to make some great tasting bombs
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Chris