Two weeks ago on a marathon brew day, i did a russian imperial coffee stout with the first runnings of a recipe i made and then added a pot of coffee after cooling wort. I added a slurry of WLP 001 that i got from my friend who is the brewer at right brain brewery in Traverse city. He collected the yeast from one of his tanks just a few hours before pitching. All is sanitary, fermentation went off like crazy, and after a week i checked the grav, 1.040(started at 1.095). OK not bad i though, but i want to get it down to about 1.020. A week ago i added a little more 001 slurry and nothing has really changed. I added another bit of 001 today and swirled around some.
The beer tastes good right now, but way to sweet and too much body. Still almost syrupy.
This is my first big stout and need your thoughts on it. I bumped up the temp to 69-70 to get it going and D-rest the other brews.
-Crut
