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All Grain Brewing / Re: Mashing confusion
« on: December 17, 2010, 06:04:55 AM »
If you have limited access to the interwebs for a few days, a discussion like this breaks out, and makes for good reading. I learned a little on the melanoidin and Malliard discussion.
One can change the mash procedure for the style of beer being made and malts used in that beer. For the British beers with the British malts, single infusion. A Cereal mash for a CAP. For a beer that uses a large portion of Vienna or Munich from continental Europe as the base, I might choose to do a step mash, and that is easy to do on my system. For a Pilsner we have done single decoctions. For the next Doppelbock, I might consider a double decoction, or if I want to do that much work, a tripple decoction.
You can make your beer anyway you want.
One of the benefits of going to the AHA BIg Brew is to see all of the systems in one place, and to talk to the others to see what they are doing. I find it a great way to learn new techniques. One guy was doing a brew in a bag.
One can change the mash procedure for the style of beer being made and malts used in that beer. For the British beers with the British malts, single infusion. A Cereal mash for a CAP. For a beer that uses a large portion of Vienna or Munich from continental Europe as the base, I might choose to do a step mash, and that is easy to do on my system. For a Pilsner we have done single decoctions. For the next Doppelbock, I might consider a double decoction, or if I want to do that much work, a tripple decoction.
You can make your beer anyway you want.
One of the benefits of going to the AHA BIg Brew is to see all of the systems in one place, and to talk to the others to see what they are doing. I find it a great way to learn new techniques. One guy was doing a brew in a bag.