A lot of Euro lagers and Euro style lagers are not fully attenuated - maybe to around ~94%. This is difficult for a homebrewer to work out excactly when you're at 94% so the easiest way is to add some wort back. Hop higher to compensate.vortex said:
citymorgue2 said:Brew day from hell MkII
Anyways im ramping to mash out and am about 2hrs behind schedule. ive then got to throw it in thew kettle and then run the gyle.
- late start as i was helping around the house (first mistake)
- anyway HLT is on and 30min later i come back and it hasnt budged 1C. pull it apart. wiring it fried. GOD DMAN MOFO HALF ARSED ELECTRICIAN!!! i knew i should have done it all myself. the wires he's used cant be 15amp as they have completely melted and buggered the terminals on the element. christ know how im going to fix that,
- Too late to abort and grian is crushed and rice is cerial mashed, polenta is in and cooking. THINK THINK THINK. Hot water from the laundry into the tun and ramp up with HERMS - THANK CHRIST FOR HERMS!!!! water isnt filtered from laundry but desperate times call for desperate measures.
- hook up gas bottle. FK no gas. fly down to servo...$38,50 for a swap and go (not fkn happy agian)
The gyle made me smile. 160g of hoppy goodness in 23Lhopmix of centenntial, chinook, colombus and cluster. smells awsome.
this beer Better be good Bribie!
glad you enjoyed it. heres the next chapter.raven19 said:
Slack bugger, sounds a bit like my efforts. I've still got one week holiday left - dunno how I will cope going back (currently looking whistfully at real estate ads from Agnes Water :unsure: ). Still a batch tomorrow and another on Weds should go someway to fixing the supply side of things.bradsbrew said:Last day of over three weeks holidays. Didnt get a single brew in, that makes it well over 2 months since my last brew. Just about to empty my last full cube into the fermenter. Only have a keg of cider and 1/3 keg of IPA left
You should brew as dry as possible, we can't always copy commercial, especially if you're adding sugar back. There's a bit here http://tinyurl.com/cavbdlh but be careful it kinda reads backwards if you're not on the ball!vortex said:
It appears you may be mistaken. Fermenting wort is added back after primary fermentation, the process is called krausening, and it allows the beer to fully attenuate and the CO2 is captured for carbonation - as it's against reinheitsgebot to carbonate with external CO2. The 6% above attenuation they're referring to is only for dark beers, lighter beers having 2 - 4% above the limit of attenuation means there is some residual sugar, to me it doesn't read that they've added unfermented wort to the beer specifically with the purpose of sweetening the beer. At least that's my understanding of what has been said there.labels said:
Not mistaken, not at all. Fully aware of what I do. The article was not the deifinitive resource, it's all I could lay my hands on from memory. I was asked for a reference probably not the best choice. The results are calculated and have been trialled successfully.vortex said:
Yeah at least once I get back to work i wont be so busywinkle said:
h34r: . Havn't been to agnes since about '95 almost bought a few acres for 30K back then.
Style: American Pale Ale
TYPE: All Grain
Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.051 SG
Estimated Color: 8.2 SRM
Estimated IBU: 35.5 IBUs
Boil Time: 60 Minutes
Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
4.00 kg Pale Malt (Weyermann) (3.3 SRM) Grain 1 76.2 %
1.00 kg Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 2 19.0 %
0.25 kg Crystal, Medium (Simpsons) (55.0 SRM) Grain 3 4.8 %
20.00 g Citra [12.00 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 4 26.2 IBUs
15.00 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 5 5.5 IBUs
10.00 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 6 1.2 IBUs
10.00 g Citra [12.00 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 7 2.6 IBUs
1.0 pkg American Ale II (Wyeast Labs #1272) [124 Yeast 8 -
20.00 g Cascade [5.50 %] - Dry Hop 3.0 Days Hop 9 0.0 IBUs
20.00 g Citra [12.00 %] - Dry Hop 3.0 Days Hop 10 0.0 IBUs
Mash Schedule: My Mash
Total Grain Weight: 5.25 kg
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