Anyone share their experience with #WLP320?

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Tomp
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Anyone share their experience with #WLP320?

Post by Tomp » Mon Jul 31, 2017 4:19 pm

I'm interested to know others experience with White Labs Pure Pitch #WLP320.

Is is a slow worker?

I pitched a wheat beer about 2 weeks ago and it's still dropping the gravity (slowly). Not a major issue, as it's fine in the fermenter, but I've seldom had a yeast that takes this long to finish its job. Anyone else find the same issue with this yeast?
It started with kits to save money and now look........!!!

Lots of kit, too many ingredients and not enough time, but a patient wife.... who loves my beer...........

Could be worse :-)

Jambo
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Re: Anyone share their experience with #WLP320?

Post by Jambo » Mon Jul 31, 2017 7:38 pm

I have found several of the wheat beer strains can need a stir now and again. Is it hefe temperature range of 24 degC or so?

Tomp
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Re: Anyone share their experience with #WLP320?

Post by Tomp » Tue Aug 01, 2017 2:24 pm

Pitched at about 25 and fermented at 21. Could have been higher, but pack says down to 17.

Did take a while to get going (48 hours before any evidence of action).

Reading around, despite the manufacturers claim to be able to pitch direct, seems a starter would have helped.

We live and learn :)

An excuse to make another brew me thinks.


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It started with kits to save money and now look........!!!

Lots of kit, too many ingredients and not enough time, but a patient wife.... who loves my beer...........

Could be worse :-)

Bigbud78
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Re: Anyone share their experience with #WLP320?

Post by Bigbud78 » Tue Aug 01, 2017 2:37 pm

I did one recently, made a starter and it was off like a rocket. Fermented out in 3 or 4 days

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