For the first time in several brews we’re finding ourselves up on a stuck fermentation with both our Brown Ale and our Egg Nog Milk Stout. I wasn’t terribly surprised by the Stout getting stuck, it’s a higher ABV beer than we’ve brewed before and I was curious to find out if my brute force [...]
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Fixing Crummy Attenuation in Our Beers
Posted in Beer, Instructional Also tagged beano, Brown Ale, BYO.com, Egg Nog Milk Stout, Homebrewing, Stuck fermentation, Washing Yeast, yeast starter Leave a comment
Understanding Attenuation in Home Brewing
We recently brewed a maibock using Rogue’s Pacman yeast as distributed by wYeast that we picked up from the nice folks at Homebrewer’s Outpost. Today when we checked our gravity after about 5 days of fermenting we were a bit below our goal of 1.016, coming in at about 1.023. Knowing that PacMan yeast is [...]
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