Well it's early days but promising so far , I'll report.MHB said:Helles can be delicious, tasted Les (the wheaty ones) Helles at the club last Friday, bloody good, dangerously so if you are driving.
Sounds like a fair investment on your O2 system, at 9oC you finished faster, got better attenuation and the beer tastes better.
Be interesting to see how it responds to the bigger yeast cake/pitch.
Mark
Latest batch of helles, did double batch in gf , grav was a bit lower than first, batch last month due to my El Crapo mill from ebay seizing up and not crushing properly, I've since bought a mashmaster mini fluted roller mill today to get a more consistant crush , I ended up siphoning 44 ltrs at 1044 straight onto the yeast cake of 34/70 in my kegmenter that was left at 10 degrees and under pressure from a week ago after first batch. Brewed the wort on Sunday morning, chilled to 10, siphoned into kegmenter,Sunday night, 02 for 2 minutes the. Sealed up and set temp to 12.
Was away and hissing good Monday night, so 24 hrs lag compared to 36 for first batch that only used 3 x 3 ltr decanted starters.
Today, 3 days into full action, hissing almost gone, I've adjusted temp to 14, will rise this to 17 by Sunday so 1 week from pitch to d-rest.
Tested grav, tonight, down to 1010, still got another few points I recon by Sunday with temp rise.
Now the big one, tasted it after hydro test, was slightly carbed and 12 degrees, clean as a whistle , still cloudy but it's still going. I'm really happy with this lager. 1 week, 1 week of cc, then pressure transfer through my filter into cornies, 2 weeks and drinking a quality clean lager, yeah ha....
Cheers