jcojr72
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I plan on brewing a batch of Hennepin this weekend, and I wanted to start brewing some experimental sour beers. I currently have the dregs from a Jolly Pumpkin Bam Biere and Oud Beersel Geuze waiting in my fridge. My thoughts were to try and make 2 separate SOUR Hennepins. I was going to bump my normal 5 gallon batch up to 7 gallons, so I could have (2) 1 gallon sour hennepins and a normal 5 gallon Hennepin. I have a few questions about how to accomplish this.
(1)Should I dillute the base Hennepin batch before pitching the dregs? The Hennepin recipe should be about 1.073 OG.
(2)Should I make a starter for the dregs or simply directly pitch them?
(3) What is the ideal IBU for the sour batches? The base Hennepin will be about 30 IBUs, but I think this is too high and may interfere with souring. I was thinking I could pull off the 2 gallon sour batches prior to boiling the main batch, and then boil them separately. Any other ideas?
Thanks.
(1)Should I dillute the base Hennepin batch before pitching the dregs? The Hennepin recipe should be about 1.073 OG.
(2)Should I make a starter for the dregs or simply directly pitch them?
(3) What is the ideal IBU for the sour batches? The base Hennepin will be about 30 IBUs, but I think this is too high and may interfere with souring. I was thinking I could pull off the 2 gallon sour batches prior to boiling the main batch, and then boil them separately. Any other ideas?
Thanks.