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Lawn Darts...an in experiment sugars. how very scientific.
whoops, meant to write 1.074.
SG today is 1.010 and looked to be finished. Racked to secondary to await priming sugar (somethin I forgot to order). I don't know if it's done fermenting for sure as i just got back from Vegas after 5 days. SO I'll be shooting gravity measurements for a few days. The house was around 65 the whole time so I think that may have slowed the process a bit.
I have heard from a master brewer at a micro brewery in the next town that safe-ale 04 throws of a lot of banana like flavors. Might have to try some in a Heffe.
crap. those banana esters haunt me wherever i turn. they seem to be getting more intense. i will drink this because i brewed it, but if the banana flavor gets any more intense i will be developing character as i drink it.
What was your estimated ABV? I am wondering if the alcohol level prematurely knocked your yeast out, so they left too much diacetyl behind etc etc. Such a vigorous fermentation may have stressed the yeast so much that when fermentation was done they couldn't do that typical "clean-up" that occurs with still healthy yeast.
DO you know what I am talking about?
Regardless, this is good information.
If its really that bad, blend it with something else. Life is to short to drink bad beer.
BTW the brown sugar brew is getting kicked off tonight, maybe I'll do another sugar too, just to make up for my super tardiness.
my ABV was about 7.5. it was a very vigorous fermentation intitially, but it still kept the engine running for three or four days afterwards, so i woul dhope that those little yeasties did some house cleaning. the beer is clear as all get out and has a good yellow gold color. maybe it is because my bottle storing is at about 74 degrees F. i didn't sweat this initially since i think that it is still a reasonable temperature, but perhaps that is it.
i don't know what i am going to do. the little missus wants to give a bottle or two to some people she works with, so i am going to chill another bottle right now and give it a taste test. we will see where we are at. if it stinks, i will let her give it away and let someone else do all the drinking...i just can't bring myself to pour it out.
Well my gravities have held rock steady at 1.01 for the last couple days. So from 1.074 to 1.01 seems to be it. Anybody out there handier with the calculations than me care to figure my ABV???? The beer has a distinct molasses aroma, not hoppy at all. The flavor before carbonation is slightly spiced rum like. Will bottle Thursday when my priming sugar arrives.
brewskinewbski, calculating ABV is easy: ABV = (OG-FG) x 129.
in your case, if your FG was 1.010, you have an ABV of 8.2% or so.
krausenator wrote:
brewskinewbski, calculating ABV is easy: ABV = (OG-FG) x 129.
in your case, if your FG was 1.010, you have an ABV of 8.2% or so.
Beat me too it...
Although I tend to use 131 not 129.... I don't know why though.
I'll need to look into it.
Thank ya.... thank ya..... thank ya.......
Looks to be a fairly stiff beer, eh???
Hey Krause... I am wondering if your yeast starved out??? Think adding a yeast nutrient would help??? I figured your brew would come out on top in the ABV department due to the fact that it had the highest dose of fermentable sugars.
brewchez, i read somwheres that ABV can be calculated using anything from 125 to 131, so i split the difference and just use 129. it may have been papazian's book, not too sure.
i thought about that, but i had a finish of 0.998, i'd say those critters did a decent job gobbling up the fermentables. and my OG may be a little off, i am not too particular about the temperature i read the hydrometer at, so it was probably still in the 70+ F range. and i am too lazy to do that adjustments, so i always use the the reading as is. i pitched the yeast in this brew at 78 F, so the temperature of the beer when i drew my hydrometer sample was probably 78 F, as i grab a sample post-aeration but pre-pitch.
i need to get a stick-on thermometer and paste it to my hydrometer tube, but i havent yet. why, you ask? i am lazy.