rochefort 8 clone

[straight cash homey]

thanks for the tips, i'm gonna follow your lead and try making this in smaller batches until I get the process down because I have 5 gallons that is crap. I tried upping the carbonation to cut some of the excess residual malt but it still sucks.

[Skeeter]

I listened to the Jamil show on Belgian Golden Strong Ale the other day and he mentioned that in inorder for the yeast you add the second time to be effective you should make a starter and pitch the entire thing when it is most active and then it is able to deal with the conditions of partially fermented beer and he talks about increasing te fermentability of your extract by steeping some two or six row in it mabye that could help I have not tried it but I plan to

[koalasprint]

The cool thing about the method they spoke about on the R'fort show (the method i used) is that by adding a portion of the wort every 24 hrs or so, you're kind of progressively feeding the yeast.

At the start, there's enough yeast for 100% of the wort, but it's only dealing with 25% of the wort, so numbers pump in that first period.

Then add another quarter of the total wort a day later, again boosting yeast numbers.

The whole process kind of turns fermentation into a type of yeast starter, constantly feeding the yeast with small addtions of wort.

Doing this I didn't need to add any extra yeast at the end which i might have needed to if i'd added my yeast to the entire (1.102) wort. I only added fresh yeast at bottling time and carbonation has been good.

Tried adding extract to my mini mash to make it more fermentable, didn't notice a great difference, but still getting my partial process together, so will try again down the track.

Cheers

Kev