Kai Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 What alcohol content will your bottle ale yeast ferment to before it gives up the ghost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB2 Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 We know it copes with 7.5% because that's the alcohol content of our latest Vintage. Don't have exact figures but given the right conditions it would probably ferment to at least another 2% higher, say around 9.5%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kai Posted April 11, 2005 Author Share Posted April 11, 2005 Thanks, Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kai Posted April 21, 2006 Author Share Posted April 21, 2006 I'm going to be testing the yeast's limits sometime in the next month or so, will brew a barleywine up to around 10% or so. I'm looking forward to see how it fares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieran Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 Hey Kai, are you going to pitch and leave it go - or give it a second shot of yeast later on to boost fermentation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kai Posted August 9, 2006 Author Share Posted August 9, 2006 Hey hey, My barleywine fermentation is almost done, so far it has gone from 1.100 to 1.026 in five days. That's more or less bang-on 10% ABV. I did end up doing a second pitching, kieran, yesterday when the wort was at 1.040. I have my doubts over whether it needed it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PB2 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Did you use the Coopers culture for the first and second pitching? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kai Posted August 10, 2006 Author Share Posted August 10, 2006 Sure did, I fermented a small (OG 1.042) brown ale and reclaimed two cups of slurry from the yeast cake. [edit] SG 1.023 tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kai Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 Racked to secondary tonight after roughly ten days. Final gravity 1.021, around 10.7%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieran Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 not a bad effort that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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