Ringwood woes...

[Chris Craig]

A bitter is exactly what I want to brew with it, so if that's the style you want to keep to, I'm good.

[Ian Grant]

Ya the lighter beers would probably be best.  Someone might not like getting the yeast from a stout and use it on there pale ale.(I did that with 1056 though and had no problems)

[Kyle]

I cultured the yeast from a Picaroons Best Bitter bottle. It is krausening at the moment. I'll get some to Thomas when I have time.

[Chris Craig]

I guess that's an easier way to go about it.

[Richard]

I'd be curious to see if it's ringwood or just something arbitrary that floated by that you've got in there

[Ian Grant]

Kyle did you try smelling it?   That'll probably give ya a good idea.

[HappyHax0r]

It's likely whatever yeast picaroons actually uses as Kyle left some beer in the bottom of the bottle the night I was there. (I'm assuming it's the same bottle Kyle?)...

As such it should make a good slant .

[Kyle]

yep, same bottle, had an inch of best bitter in it and I added wort on top.

It is always possible that it is some other strain of wild yeast, but unlikely. It just roused it to get a good amount of activity in the airlock, and it does smell like ringwood yeast!

[HappyHax0r]

Hey Kyle, how's the ryeIIPA coming?

[fakr]

This thread is still going?

for the record, the ringwood yeast I used wasn't viable.  Had to add additional yeast to finish the fermentation.  Unfortunately it wasn't ringwood.  a combo of 04, 05 and ringwood.  

ok, go back to whatever you guys were talking about in the thread!  hehe!

[Richard]

If it smells like ringwood then it probably is... good job

Fakr: this thread is still about ringwood Did it attenuate properly when you shoved the 05/04 in?

[fakr]

Just joking, no worries.

I'm not very confident that this 12GAL batch is going to turn out.  The whole fermentation took too long I think.

I pitched with two packs of ringwood on day 1.  OG 1.050
Day 6 - SG 1.040 - I pitched a pack of 05 and left the house for 4 days.
Day 10 - SG 1.030 - I pitched a pack of 04.
Day 14 - SG 1.-18 - I racked off to secondaries to clarify.

Made the big mistake of not pitching 2 packs of yeast on day 6.  Was in a rush to leave town for 4 days.  

I'm going to keg and bottle it all tonight or tomorrow.  I'll post how it turned out shortly.

[fakr]

Update on this...

This brew's SG bottomed out at 1.014 in the secondary, from 1.018.  Beer tastes great, which is a relief as I made 12GAL of the stuff.

This batch was an attempt at a Picaroons best bitter clone, and I must say, I think I'm bang on with the grain and hop quantities.   I'll have to have a second taste when it's finished carbonating, but the initial room temperature taste really closely resembles picaroons.  Again, I'll need a second taste, or a side by side comparison to confirm.  

If it is very close, then it makes me wonder if picaroons doesn't mix ringwood with other yeast to get their signature taste.  

I bottled 10L so I'll have some to bring to a meeting to share.

[Chris Craig]

Hmmm.  Recipe please  :mrgreen:

[fakr]

I'll check my brew notes and post the recipe tonight.