Barrel Project - Summary Thread

[Ciderhead]

Lmfaool indeedy!


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[Rossa]

No darling 004 or wlp004 to give it its full name is Irish ale yeast, only the very best for Wicklow ;-)


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After 5 days my 5-05 beer is still going but the Wlp 004 which went bonkers until now has all but stopped. Haven't tested either yet.

[Ciderhead]

Hope 004 isn't all fur and no knickers!


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[Rossa]

Hope 004 isn't all fur and no knickers!


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Me too !

[andrewL46]

Grain's crushed, ready to go first thing in the morning!!

[Bubbles]

Great stuff Andrew. Let us know how you go.

Oh, and don't get your yeasts mixed up... We don't want any of that "WLPS04" shite in the South Dublin Barrel.... 

[andrewL46]

All done, except clean up. Didnt go too bad considering i dove straight into it after
coming home from a night shift. Pretty shattered now.
No real feck ups, and the right yeasties have just been pitched, came in a little short
on OG and had to add a little bit of DME, surprised though cos my efficiency wasnt as
bad on the Bray beer. Anyway came in bang on 1.099 with around 21L in carboy.
Hard to tell if its gonna rocket off like the Bray one, lost a good bit with that one.
South Dublin on bottom, aerating the shite outta it!! 

[Bubbles]

Great job andrew, thanks for updating.

[Ciderhead]

I have glass carboys but thought better of it and used the buckets instead, they will be ok for secondary.
The US05 is a real plodder and you wont have anything like the issues of the 004, mines still workong like a little trojan and pop pop popping this morning.

[Ciderhead]

Oh, and don't get your yeasts mixed up... We don't want any of that "WLPS04" shite in the South Dublin Barrel.... 

I'm pissing in mine for that comment now 

[Bubbles]

Oh, and don't get your yeasts mixed up... We don't want any of that "WLPS04" shite in the South Dublin Barrel.... 

I'm pissing in mine for that comment now 

Just get a piss gravity reading first - I want to make sure we're still around the 1098 mark...

[Bubbles]

The US05 is a real plodder

+1

It is a bit of a plodder on first pitch, but it's like lightening on subsequent pitches, I find. I love re-pitching US-05 slurry - I've just bottled an 8% IPA which was fermented with about 400ml of thick US-05 slurry and it was done in 3 or 4 days. Fantastic.

It's also extremely attenuative, which is one of the reasons why it's perfect for a 10% stout. I'm led to believe it's even slightly more attenuative than it's liquid equivalents (like WLP001) which are no slouches in the attenuation department themselves.

(Edit: Just to allay any fears, my pitches for the barrel porter were freshly opened and rehydrated sachets!! Which is why they're also plodding along.    )

[Ciderhead]

Oh, and don't get your yeasts mixed up... We don't want any of that "WLPS04" shite in the South Dublin Barrel.... 

I'm pissing in mine for that comment now 

Just get a piss gravity reading first - I want to make sure we're still around the 1098 mark...

it was 1300 last time I measured, that was after I drank some of the contents from the barrel mind.

[Ciderhead]

The US05 is a real plodder

+1

It is a bit of a plodder on first pitch, but it's like lightening on subsequent pitches, I find. I love re-pitching US-05 slurry - I've just bottled an 8% IPA which was fermented with about 400ml of thick US-05 slurry and it was done in 3 or 4 days. Fantastic.

Yeast from high gravity beers is usually binned as its shot right?

From Wyeast
"Yeast harvested from a high gravity fermentation will be in poor health and should not be used in subsequent fermentations."

Of course they have a vested interest.

[Bubbles]

Yeast from high gravity beers is usually binned as its shot right?

Yes.

I'd routinely repitch slurry (without washing it) from beers around the 1.050 mark. Anything higher than that, and I now tend to chuck it. I certainly wouldn't re-pitch from our 10% barrel porter. The yeast are completely knackered at that point.

The same is said to apply to very hoppy beers. The hop resins coat the yeast cells and decrease their viability. It's never been an issue for me, however - I always repitch yeast from hop bombs.