I started a wherry off on sunday, but rehydrated a Safale 04 instead of the kit yeast. Had to guess at the temp of the water to add it to cos I bust my thermometer, but it felt ok. 24 hours later nothing had happened, so I rehydrated 2 6g packs of kit yeast and addded some yeast vit and pitched. That got it going and it's had a good krausen (is that the word?) since tuesday. But, could using this much yeast cause any problems, or affect the taste in any bad way?
Cheers.
too much yeast?
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PeteH
Cheers Daab. This was down to 1011 yesterday, which surprised me as I expected it to get stuck, and i think it says fg will be around 1014 in the instructions. So I boiled up 10 ginger and lemon tea bags in about 1/2 pint of water and added the strong tea to my other FV, repeated the process with the same bags, and then siphoned 10 litres of the wherry into the FV. A quick taste told me the lemon and ginger taste was very subtle, so I put the previously boiled bags into a boiled washing tablet bag and suspended it in the wort for a day. I removed it this morning so as not to risk an overpowering taste. I'll check the gravity today/tomorrow and probably bottle both Wherry versions on Wednesday.