OUTSTANDING videos, Kai! Really professionally done (thanks a ton for translating to °F for those of us who are less Euro-focused ). I'm going to be getting to that Pilsner next weekend, this helps a lot (especially seeing how much thinner you're doing these mashes).
That was great! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I learned a lot about decoctions, I might even try one. I just have one question: what do you think a protein rest contributes to the wort?
Please pardon my naivete, as this is the first time I've actually seen this done; but, I kept wondering during the video if boiling the decoction would extract the tannins from the malt husks? I know that I must be wrong to think this. So how does that work?
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Absolutely fantastic Kai, I have always wanted to see this done and have tried it before but you make it a lot easier to understand and implement. I loved the music and want to go to Germany before my life is done and enjoy some good German beer and food and go to some brewery's and see the masters of brewing at work. What amaizes me the most is that before we had all these fancy measuring devices and labs to find out what is actually happening in a mash the old world brewers had perfected brewing and made fantastic beer. Good work Kai.
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Very nicely done I have done 1 double decoction and Really liked the beer that I came up with but DAMN the time... the time it takes is crazy.
again well done
JJ
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Even though I have no plans to do a decoction, double or otherwise, in the forseeable future it was a real pleasure to watch such a well done video and learn how to do decoction mashing. The accent and music really contributed a lot to the presentation.
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what do you think a protein rest contributes to the wort?
Not much these days and mine are starting to get shorter as well. The more I read about that, the more I realize that even European malts don't need them anymore.
Excellent videos... Never have done a decoction, but its on my to-do list and this really helps...
Prost this thread!
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). I'm going to be getting to that Pilsner next weekend, this helps a lot (especially seeing how much thinner you're doing these mashes).
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