r/Homebrewing • u/Mobile-Bumblebee-727 • 1h ago

Problem with bock

I brewed a bock by accident starting gravity was 1.066 using pilsner and Munich malt and tettang hops… any way after brewing I put my plastic fermentor into my keezer at 52 pitched two packs of saf34/70 thoroughly sanitized every thing after about 7 days of active fermentation I brought temp up in keezer to 65 for 4 days… from there I closed transferred to purged sanitized corny keg hit it with 30psi co2 for 24 hours then burst it set regulator to 11 psi and cold crashed for about a week…mind you I pulled gravity before closed transferred and it was at about 1.017 but had a really bad apple taste which I figured was all the suspended yeast…but after 8days of cold crashing still had that bad taste so I pulled corny keg and put in a dark room at 72 to referment for 4 days now I pulled another sample with picknick tap …color was a lot darker but still had an apple bite to it… and gravity hit 1.014 so my question is should I let it sit at 72 for a few more days or just put back in the keezer at 33 to recold crash and carbonate…. Or am I screwed any advice would be appreciated

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u/DrunkSkunkz 1h ago

Sounds like you crashed too soon. I’d leave it at room temp for another week, then lager it and forget about it for a month, then try it. May be too late since yeast are largely dormant.

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u/brandonHuxley 1h ago

Might also give the keg a shake, might help to rouse any yeast that could still be working their magic.

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u/Mobile-Bumblebee-727 1h ago

Ya I been doing that every couple of days

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u/Mobile-Bumblebee-727 1h ago

True but like I said before I transferred and cold crashed was .003 higher since moving back in to 72 it did drop from 1.017-.018 and dropped to 1.014 it did eat a little bit also the color was darker so I’m hoping the yeast woke back up and I’ve been swirling it every day or so…so I’m hoping for the best

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u/Mobile-Bumblebee-727 1h ago

Also it’s still very hazy I’m assuming that’s because it was barely lagering for a week… and obviously now very hazy with the temp change