Doing my first closed transfer keg to keg now. I found a leaky keg filled with Dunkelweizen I need to fix, and I have several good clean kegs sitting around.
Down from 1.072 to 1.014 for 80% apparently attenuation, which is significantly more than I would have expected from either part of my co-pitch. Lallemand claim up to 83% with Köln but I've never actually got close to that, usually more like 77%.
A 70°C mash with 15% unmalted grains should have pushed FG up to the high teens. Hence the confusion. This is a pretty typical grist for me and Köln is my house NEIPA yeast so I usually have a pretty good feeling for where it lands attenuation wise.The problem with yeast manufacturer published attenuation ranges is that yeast strain is not the only factor. Grain bill and mash parameters are also big drivers.
Sounds like fun.Yesterday, I cleaned, sanitized and purged 17 kegs
I hope that oxygen is for pre-pitch...I am working late tonight, it's 10:30 PM and I am replacing a defective warning LED light.
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Interested in how this recipe turns out. I'm going to give Kveik one more try this summer.Today I brewed 21 litres of American Amber Ale
Recipe
3500g Maris Otter
1000g Munich light
250g Special B
50g Carapils
10g Columbus @ 60 m
18g Chinook @ 15 m
20g Cascade & 8g Willamette for 20 minutes whirlpool at 85 C
CML Voss Kveik yeast fermenting at 30C
OG 1052 BHE 73%
Bleach is easy, will do the job and at the right concentration is no rinse.sanitize
That sounds delicious and it inspired me to try a way of getting dark rum flavor in a porter. It could be done using barrel chips from an aged rum barrel. Thanks for the inspiration.Boiled 69g of my rum barrel oak staves up in preparation for my BA Red Rye IPA.
Added them to a jar with about 300ml of cheapish 5-year rum to sit for a while.
When it comes time for them to go into the fermenter, they'll get a few days in Plantation OFTD to maximise the "oh f*ck, that's delicious".
I've also been having trouble finding enough consecutive hours to do an all grain brew day. Extract can make some good beers though.Gave up on finding a AG brew day, so I stopped at my LHBS and picked up some DME for an extract brew. I can do that after work.
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