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Offline reverseapachemaster

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Re: Carbing up a 9.5% IBA
« Reply #15 on: November 17, 2015, 09:22:31 am »
I would be inclined to open the bottles and add fresh yeast and additional priming sugar and then store the recapped bottles at a warmer temperature. By cold crashing you reduced the number of yeast and left them behind in a stressful environment. That's not a recipe for fast carbonation. You've also added enough priming sugar to get around 1.5-1.7 carbonation assuming your temperature reading at 68F represents the actual beer temperature. Even if you get the beer to maximum possible carbonation you'll still have a beer with carbonation closer to a gravity pour and less like a fully carbonated beer.
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Re: Carbing up a 9.5% IBA
« Reply #16 on: November 17, 2015, 09:40:18 am »
off to get the bottling yeast!  Thanks guys!! I really appreciate the help!
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Re: Carbing up a 9.5% IBA
« Reply #17 on: November 17, 2015, 11:03:46 am »
Lalvin EC-1118 (dry yeast) is a good choice for bottling yeast if you don't have one already picked out. Works well in a huge range of temperatures, drops like a stone once cooled and contributes zero flavor to the beer.

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Re: Carbing up a 9.5% IBA
« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2015, 07:32:31 am »
I picked up some CBC-1
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