I brew on a 3 bbl electric system and use plastic conicals. This beer uses Lallemand's lovely Belle Saison yeast.
Brewed a really big Triple using the Belle Saison. Fermented to just under 12% ABV which was more attenuation that what I was expecting based on software. I don't have my info in front of me this second, but it was an over 1.1 OG and down to 1.011 if I remember right. Nothing fancy, tons of grain (~125 lbs per bbl) and some belgian sugar.
After about a month in the tank it was lovely in every way and at that time I acquired a Kendal Jackson oak chardonnay barrel. Decided to use this beer for the barrel and transferred 53 gallons into the barrel and the other 40-ish stayed in the tank. My intent has been to blend the barreled and unbarreled beers together in my brite.
After letting the 40 gals sit in the tank for a month or two I decided to put it into kegs (uncarbed) for storage until I was ready to blend. During the second transfer I pulled a sample and it was straight up jolly rancher. Very strong green apple. I have never had Acetaldehyde but reading up it seems it is due to un-finished fermentation. I cant imagine this is unfinished. The beer that I transferred to the chard barrel is simply epic and not in anyway suffering the same fate.
So any ideas how this happened? I cant say enough how much I regret not kegging the ballance right away, but still it is a mystery to me. Will it age away? I'm thinking about bottling 10 or so gallons of the affected beer and popping one every now and again to test and see if it improves. This beer is due to be released as my holiday beer, so a month or so away from release.
Thanks in advance
Matt
D14 Brewery & Pub
Brewed a really big Triple using the Belle Saison. Fermented to just under 12% ABV which was more attenuation that what I was expecting based on software. I don't have my info in front of me this second, but it was an over 1.1 OG and down to 1.011 if I remember right. Nothing fancy, tons of grain (~125 lbs per bbl) and some belgian sugar.
After about a month in the tank it was lovely in every way and at that time I acquired a Kendal Jackson oak chardonnay barrel. Decided to use this beer for the barrel and transferred 53 gallons into the barrel and the other 40-ish stayed in the tank. My intent has been to blend the barreled and unbarreled beers together in my brite.
After letting the 40 gals sit in the tank for a month or two I decided to put it into kegs (uncarbed) for storage until I was ready to blend. During the second transfer I pulled a sample and it was straight up jolly rancher. Very strong green apple. I have never had Acetaldehyde but reading up it seems it is due to un-finished fermentation. I cant imagine this is unfinished. The beer that I transferred to the chard barrel is simply epic and not in anyway suffering the same fate.
So any ideas how this happened? I cant say enough how much I regret not kegging the ballance right away, but still it is a mystery to me. Will it age away? I'm thinking about bottling 10 or so gallons of the affected beer and popping one every now and again to test and see if it improves. This beer is due to be released as my holiday beer, so a month or so away from release.
Thanks in advance
Matt
D14 Brewery & Pub
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