Wyeast 1275 Question

[acepilot]

Not many of us do have actual thermowells in our wort constantly monitoring and adjusting temps. But you should at least have a fermometer strip stuck to the side of EVERY fermenter that you use. They are cheap and help you to at least attempt to control the temp of the fermentation.

Actually, I have a 2 stage Ranco Temp Controller on the way. Once it arrives, I will be able to cool or heat the wort with a heating element mounted inside my fermenting refrigerator. I have the thermowell...the next batch of brew will have full temp control as well as data acqusition from an A/D converter and can log wort temps up to about 200 times per second! Actually, I will log every 5 minutes to see the trends and to help make decisions about any changes I make to the fermenting chamber (refrigerator)...overkill, yes, but not for a beer geek

[brewinhard]

Sweet! Sounds like a nice setup. That should definitely help with beer quality and attenuation.

[acepilot]

OK, here's the final deal...I swirled the wort in the fermenter a couple of times and the krausen finally "mostly" fell back in to the beer. The final gravity was measured at 1.010, so it appears to have finished just fine. It tasted very clean with no off flavors. It's now in the keg, slowly carbonating. Life IS good

Ace

[brewinhard]

Those german ale yeasts like to rage the wort! They seem like they never want to settle down!

[acepilot]

Those german ale yeasts like to rage the wort! They seem like they never want to settle down!

Wyeast 1275 is called Thames Valley Ale yeast, an English yeast. Regardless, it was a little wiley, but all came out fine in the end.

[acepilot]

Those german ale yeasts like to rage the wort! They seem like they never want to settle down!

Wyeast 1275 is called Thames Valley Ale yeast, an English yeast. Regardless, it was a little wiley, but all came out fine in the end.

Has anyone who has used 1275 noticed it doesn't seem to give the beer much "character" or yeast flavor? I made a simple beer using 7 pounds of English Pale Ale malt, 0.75 pound of American Victory malt and 0.25 pound American Crystal 40 with 2 Oz. EKG hops. Pretty bland tasting...not very exciting. Maybe a little more Crystal would have helped...

Ace