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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Bottling and corking kegged beer for competition
« on: December 31, 2017, 04:17:59 PM »
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Mmm... strawberry blonde.......Bet that's way better than a bleach blonde
It's in here if someone wanted to dig. But sure...So I just had the most relaxing and relaxed brew day (morning really) in a long time. Kept it simple. Simple water locked in the pH (yeah I made the usual notes but maybe now I won't need to check things like that except for a totally new style.) Simple mash (153°F and mash off) gave a wort of superior quality and the usual yield. Went back to FWH so I could walk away and forget about most of the boil. I actually think this might be the best beer I have made in a long time, and most importantly, it was really fun again! Next stress reducer: I'm going to quit filtering my beer. Heck, I know it's clear and clean enough after lagering, I'm just wasting my time and stripping my beer. I just cut an inch off the dip tubes in my lagering kegs and made a jumper from spare tubing and parts! Thanks to Jim for his original post.You are most welcome. We may end up with an Alice's Restaurant type movement here!
Jim, are you up for relating the story you told me about your helles?
Odd, huh? Keep it up!Jim, I'm right there with you on my New Year's resolution -- thanks to your topic on "cruise control." See my latest reply there. Happy, happy brew year!
Ya know, it's kinda funny but Jim's post is exactly what I've been talking about for years.
So I just had the most relaxing and relaxed brew day (morning really) in a long time. Kept it simple. Simple water locked in the pH (yeah I made the usual notes but maybe now I won't need to check things like that except for a totally new style.) Simple mash (153°F and mash off) gave a wort of superior quality and the usual yield. Went back to FWH so I could walk away and forget about most of the boil. I actually think this might be the best beer I have made in a long time, and most importantly, it was really fun again! Next stress reducer: I'm going to quit filtering my beer. Heck, I know it's clear and clean enough after lagering, I'm just wasting my time and stripping my beer. I just cut an inch off the dip tubes in my lagering kegs and made a jumper from spare tubing and parts! Thanks to Jim for his original post.You are most welcome. We may end up with an Alice's Restaurant type movement here!
Thats my understanding too. I was straying from the german theme, but it stands to reason if you are not wanting aroma or flavor avoid late hops.I'll add that I recently heard Stan H say that 10 min additions are kind of a waste due to volitizing aromatics (My paraphrase). I tend to entirely agree. I bitter with FWH and flavor with whirlpool, which also brings some aroma, then big aroma comes from dry hopping if I think I want more.
IIRC he was talking about Myrcene being boiled off. In German beers that would be out of place, as that is a courser flavor/aroma to them. Most German breweries don’t add anything after 10 minutes.