Droopy Brew
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I have what I think is autolysis. I brewed a Dunkleweizen on Saturday (which was bloody expensive and was my first double decoction so took 6.5hours) and the wort came out fantastic.
I pitched some 3068 which I had spun up over 3 days on the mixing plate, chilled, drained off the fermented wort and added 500ml of distilled water and LME to about 1.030. I didtn notice any off smells in the starter and the yeast cake had probably multiplied by 8-10 times the original.
2 days later and it was fermenting but instead of beautiful banana smells, Im getting some slightly surfactant type smells (which I put down to the idophor in my blow off vessel) but predominantly it tastes and smells of beef stock/dead yeast/vegemite.
Pretty sure I have autolysis.
So can it be saved?
Im thinking I could rack off the cake now (sitting at 1.020 so still some fermenting to be done) into secondary?
Any suggestions appreciated.
I pitched some 3068 which I had spun up over 3 days on the mixing plate, chilled, drained off the fermented wort and added 500ml of distilled water and LME to about 1.030. I didtn notice any off smells in the starter and the yeast cake had probably multiplied by 8-10 times the original.
2 days later and it was fermenting but instead of beautiful banana smells, Im getting some slightly surfactant type smells (which I put down to the idophor in my blow off vessel) but predominantly it tastes and smells of beef stock/dead yeast/vegemite.
Pretty sure I have autolysis.
So can it be saved?
Im thinking I could rack off the cake now (sitting at 1.020 so still some fermenting to be done) into secondary?
Any suggestions appreciated.