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 recipe for the second without using the calculator 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
Now as it was 2am by this point and I'd been drinking all day instead of being sensible and adding water to bring the gravity down a bit I thought this could be a great beer so I stuck it in the cube. The next day I put it in the carboy and added some US-05. It started at 1120 and finished at 1030 making it 11.9%. I bottled it adding dextrose to carbonate but 4 weeks on nothing. Tastes great but no carbonation. A bit of research suggests that the US-05 only works up to about 12% so I'm guessing that's my problem.
The beer is in swing tops so I was thinking of adding some fresh yeast to see if it helps but I have 2 concerns.
1) If I use US-05 again it will do nothing as its 12% already
2) If I use a yeast with a higher alcohol tolerance there is still plenty of sugars in there to make some great tasting bottle bombs
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Chris
Carbonation Problem (or lack of) in a BIG beer
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