Wyeast 3711: a BEAST!

Yes, 3711 is a beast and will take your gravity down extremely low. I generally end up in the 1.002-1.004 range with it while I have seen people say they were below 1.000 with it. I love that this yeast is not finicky in any way shape or form.

 

+1 to: “I love that this yeast is not finicky in any way shape or form.”

Cheers!

 

I have my 3711 saison nicely bubbling away too =) My first try at the style, very keen to get it into a bottle.

 

I used 3711 and it was incredibly fast...probably helped that I added honey to the boil. I used a blow-off tube, which I use regardless of the OG, and I'd encourage everyone to do...I don't even use an air-lock for most of my beer...just a blow-off for the 2-3 weeks of ferm.

Anyway, I forgot to take an FG, and when I took it after the addition of priming sugar it was 1.003...a beast indeed!

 

You used 100ml of yeast slurry in 1 gallon?
No wonder it blew the airlock off. It wasn't 3711 it was the amount of yeast you pitched. Any yeast would have blown up.

 

I don't like fermcaps, in the sense that I don't like adding chemicals to a beer if I don't have to. It's not a quality concern or anything...it's just that it rubs me the wrong way.

 

By slurry I mean the cake at the bottom of a cold crashed starter. I am not sure we are defining that term the same.
I assume 4.5 billion cells/ml of slurry. How much slurry I add depends on the OG of the beer I am brewing.

 

So each one gallon fermenter had one gallon of wort, with little/no headspace?

 

By my reckoning you seem to have a 20% headspace. That seem small to me. I primary ferment my 5 gallon batches in a 7.9 gallon bucket (>50% headspace).

Cheers!

 

Thanks for that picture. My only ‘test instrument’ is my eyeballs but:

· It appears that you have plenty of headspace there

· I would guess that your fermenter is a 1.5 gallon jug

My guess is that you have something like 50% headspace there.

Have you ever actually measured the volume of your jug?

Cheers!

 

I've got another pouch of 3711, gonna make another beast-beer soon. I don't think there's anything 3711 won't gobble down in record time. If you forgot the wort, they'd probably eat the bucket.

 

Not gonna get in a pissing match here, but there is visually (at most) 50% more headspace than the wort height there (recall there is a picture from above affecting our perception of height). Based on the narrowing, that is nowhere near 1.5 US gallons. My guess is that is a 1 imperial gallon jug (which is 1.2 original gallons)...

 

I'm not really a stickler for numbers, and I'm not trying to be a dick, but this one was bothering me for some weird reason.

I think your percentage numbers are even smaller than you are calculating. I'll start off with a base example of "a glass half full" which means it is 50% full, therefore, 50% (of that vessel) is headspace. In the OP's 1.2gal fermenter with 1gal of wort the headspace will be 16%. Your fermenter of 7.9gal with 5gal of liquid has ~37% headspace.

Back to the OP, I'm glad you brought this up b/c I am using this yeast this weekend and I'll be putting a blow off tube on from the start.

Cheers!