3.5 gallons of free wort (time sensitive thread)

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  1. Daemose

    Daemose Maven (1,407) Oct 3, 2011 Texas

    Okay, I so I have 3.5 gallons of wheat/2row wort left over from a buddy's brew day earlier this evening.

    What to do? Lol

    My ideas:

    Topping off my sours.

    Doing a full carboy of my year old coolship that tastes like a bad Fantome bottle.

    Pitching Cali ale yeast then dumping some bottle dregs into a new sour tomorrow.
     
    #1 Daemose, Oct 12, 2014
  2. FeDUBBELFIST

    FeDUBBELFIST Pooh-Bah (1,765) Oct 31, 2009 Pennsylvania
    Pooh-Bah

    Save it for starters.
     
    #2 FeDUBBELFIST, Oct 12, 2014
  3. FATC1TY

    FATC1TY Pooh-Bah (2,564) Feb 12, 2012 Georgia
    Pooh-Bah

    I'd do that.. save it for starters.

    You can boil it up, put it in jars, and then seal it up.

    When you go to use it, you can boil it again for a quick minute if you are worried about contamination, and roll as usual.
     
    #3 FATC1TY, Oct 12, 2014
  4. mikehartigan

    mikehartigan Maven (1,421) Apr 9, 2007 Illinois

    I'd be inclined to pitch a yeast suitable to the grain bill for a cheap 3.5 gals of beer.
     
    #4 mikehartigan, Oct 12, 2014
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  5. Bwhamon

    Bwhamon Initiate (0) Aug 29, 2014 Kentucky

    Wow, I am impressed. I never have leftover wort. I always come up a little short (no bad jokes please ;-) and end up adding a little water to the primary. How big of a boil is he doing?
     
    #5 Bwhamon, Oct 12, 2014
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  6. Daemose

    Daemose Maven (1,407) Oct 3, 2011 Texas

    He did four 6 gallon batches but got a little drunk by the last two.
     
    #6 Daemose, Oct 13, 2014
  7. Daemose

    Daemose Maven (1,407) Oct 3, 2011 Texas

    I ended up just topping off my sours since they had the same grain bill.
     
    #7 Daemose, Oct 13, 2014
  8. sarcastro

    sarcastro Savant (1,133) Sep 20, 2006 Michigan

    This is what I usually do.
     
    #8 sarcastro, Oct 13, 2014
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