MrManifesto
Well-Known Member
...at brooklyn homebrew! they just started doing classes and the last one caught my eye. it's since sold out so i'm happy i got my ticket early. this experiment will test the effects of overpitch/underpitch, we will be the guinea pigs!
"The experiment will based on the following criteria:
Beer style: Blond ale. I chose a blond ale because any off flavors will have little to hide behind.
Yeast strain: Wyeast 1056. I had a tough time choosing the yeast. I could have gone with a very expressive yeast to detect changes in flavor. I eventually went with a popular strain that many brewers use for their batches.
Every sample will be treated the same and the test batches will be fermented in 1 gallon batches. The original gravity of the beer will be 1.046 and only one hop will be used (see recipe below).
Samples:
Control pitch: 0.75 million cells/ml/º Plato – 32.9 billion cells.
Overpitch: 2.5 million cells/ml/º Plato – 112.8 billion cells.
Underpitch: 0.1 million cells/ml/º Plato – 4.7 billion cells.
The recipe (4.5 gallon batch to be split into 1 gallon fermentors):
7 pounds 2-row Pale malt
1 pound of Carapils
Mashed in at 153ºF for one hour. Raised temps to 168ºF for mashout and recirculated as usual. First runnings at 1.063. Second runnings at 1.018. Collected a total of 5.9 gallons at 1.034. Boiled for 60 minutes:
0.5 oz of Centennial at 60 minutes.
0.5 oz of Centennial at 0 minutes (flameout).
Whirlfloc and yeast nutrient at 15 minutes.
Cooled to 62ºF and pitched the amount of yeast noted above. I did not oxygenate the wort in any sample. Fermented cool (62ºF) until fermentation slowed then slowly ramped up to 70ºF.
On December 14th the class is scheduled and I will post the results, including flavor and fermentation profiles. I’m also thinking of polling the students to see how each beer scored."
http://sciencebrewer.com/2011/11/29/pitching-rate-experiment/
"The experiment will based on the following criteria:
Beer style: Blond ale. I chose a blond ale because any off flavors will have little to hide behind.
Yeast strain: Wyeast 1056. I had a tough time choosing the yeast. I could have gone with a very expressive yeast to detect changes in flavor. I eventually went with a popular strain that many brewers use for their batches.
Every sample will be treated the same and the test batches will be fermented in 1 gallon batches. The original gravity of the beer will be 1.046 and only one hop will be used (see recipe below).
Samples:
Control pitch: 0.75 million cells/ml/º Plato – 32.9 billion cells.
Overpitch: 2.5 million cells/ml/º Plato – 112.8 billion cells.
Underpitch: 0.1 million cells/ml/º Plato – 4.7 billion cells.
The recipe (4.5 gallon batch to be split into 1 gallon fermentors):
7 pounds 2-row Pale malt
1 pound of Carapils
Mashed in at 153ºF for one hour. Raised temps to 168ºF for mashout and recirculated as usual. First runnings at 1.063. Second runnings at 1.018. Collected a total of 5.9 gallons at 1.034. Boiled for 60 minutes:
0.5 oz of Centennial at 60 minutes.
0.5 oz of Centennial at 0 minutes (flameout).
Whirlfloc and yeast nutrient at 15 minutes.
Cooled to 62ºF and pitched the amount of yeast noted above. I did not oxygenate the wort in any sample. Fermented cool (62ºF) until fermentation slowed then slowly ramped up to 70ºF.
On December 14th the class is scheduled and I will post the results, including flavor and fermentation profiles. I’m also thinking of polling the students to see how each beer scored."
http://sciencebrewer.com/2011/11/29/pitching-rate-experiment/