srcossens
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I brewed a RIS the other week, throwing plenty of yeast at it. Enough that it went from 1.105 to 1.026 in four days at 17c. I used Nottingham which is always a monster. Basically I washed a previous Nottingham brew, pitching that and adding an extra packet of Nottingham.
Initially I was hoping that the yeast would still be lively enough to bottle condition, which I'm sure it will be after the good ferment. I'm going to keep this in the fermenter for a few weeks to clean everything up and to hopefully drop out a bit of the yeast, so that I'm left with a minimum 1-2 mill cells per ml. I brewed 38ltrs, so I am wanting to keep some for atleast 5 years, possibly longer. Some people that know me may laugh at this last comment, "You... Beer... 5 years... Ha not likely."
I've decided that if I go down the route of CPBFing, that I will get the craftbrewer CPBF and some oxygen absorbing caps. If I go the other way and bottle condition, I'm worried that I may start to get off flavours from dying yeast after a few years. I read somewhere on one of the CPBFing posts that someone had brewed a barley wine (bottle conditioned) and won a comp 3 years in a row, but after that it started to taste like vegemite.
The question I have is whether the beer will last 5 years CPBFing or will it last longer bottle carbed?
Initially I was hoping that the yeast would still be lively enough to bottle condition, which I'm sure it will be after the good ferment. I'm going to keep this in the fermenter for a few weeks to clean everything up and to hopefully drop out a bit of the yeast, so that I'm left with a minimum 1-2 mill cells per ml. I brewed 38ltrs, so I am wanting to keep some for atleast 5 years, possibly longer. Some people that know me may laugh at this last comment, "You... Beer... 5 years... Ha not likely."
I've decided that if I go down the route of CPBFing, that I will get the craftbrewer CPBF and some oxygen absorbing caps. If I go the other way and bottle condition, I'm worried that I may start to get off flavours from dying yeast after a few years. I read somewhere on one of the CPBFing posts that someone had brewed a barley wine (bottle conditioned) and won a comp 3 years in a row, but after that it started to taste like vegemite.
The question I have is whether the beer will last 5 years CPBFing or will it last longer bottle carbed?