DrinkNoH2O

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Drinking: Simarillo Pale Ale, Rye Saison

Primary: Hopped up German Pils

JBrady

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I personally am not going to worry with a 90 minute boil. If there was more pilsner malt in it then I would, but for just a few pounds I'm just going to boil hard for 60 min. and make sure that I cool fast too. Thats just my opinion though.

I'm going to brew this in a few weeks with crystal hops. I have a crap load on hand from hops direct and their supposedly a substitute for hallerteu.

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Bottled: Janet's Brown, Session Dry Stout, Yellow Fly Cream Ale

Gallons Brewed In 2011-40

motobrewer

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is 0.5lb rice hulls enough? How is the lauter with 7 pounds of wheat?

I'm scared, i've done a dunkel with 5.5 lb wheat and a cream ale with 1.2 lb flaked corn; both had stuck sparges. but, i didn't mashout either of those, i can't really with my system, unless i decoct.

hinke

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I use 1 pound of rice hulls. Has worked for me.

motobrewer

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ok, cool.

I was thinking of decocting to get to mashout, does anyone see a prob with this?

I have a 5 gallon mash tun, and with 11.5 lb grain and ~14 quarts of water, there's no room for the extra gallon of boiling water it'd take to get to mashout.

edit: i guess it's an even 11 pounds of grain; anyone know how to NOT include rice hulls in the grain bill on beersmith?

hinke

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I don't do a mashout for this recipe, and with 1 pound of rice hulls it has worked fine so far. I have done the recipe twice.

iijakii

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Going to make this on Sunday, quick question about a yeast starter with 3068/WLP300:

Will it coldcrash/settle down like a normal starter so you can decant all of the liquid off? This will be my first time using hefe yeast. I just know in hefeweizens there's a tonne of suspended yeast so I was wondering if you really have to pitch the whole starter due to wanting those floaties still.

hinke

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Just make a 750ml starter, and dump the whole thing in.

I was also thinking that a starter might not be needed for the hefe, since you kind of want the yeast to work harder to produce the flavors....but it's just a thought I have.

iijakii

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Well I only have extra dark DME on hand, so I'm unsure if I want to dump that into a precious light hefe. Maybe this will be a good time to try out real-wort starters. I no-chill cube so that should be doable, just throws off my schedule.

hinke

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Ok. Did not know you only had dark DME.

I used the wyeast 3068 in my last 5 gallon batch, and I did NOT do a yeast starter for that one. It turned out just fine.