firebird400
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Hello.
I have been brewing all-grain since 2009 and have tried just about everything in the game with different success through out the years.
I have two temp controlled chest freezers for fermentation and lagering and loads of other brewing related gismos.
My brewing set-up is a lot different than must use. I have a home made computer controlled recirculated electric set-up with a giant stir-bar that tumbles the grain during mashing. This gives me efficiency of 90% every time.
This works great for just about everything I want to brew, other than styles that benefit from being decocted there is.
I could shut down the system and pull some grains from the mash to do a decotion but I worry that it could cause a blockage and ruin the whole thing.
What I want to do is pre-boil a portion of the grain bill to get the benefits of a decoction, mostly the added color but also all the other things a decotion gives. (not that I know for sure what that is)
I know that the grains I am using are very well modified and a dection is not needed but I want to include it.
So the question is, how much of the grain bill should be pre-boiled
I also know that a grain bill of mostly pilsner malt will not give me the 4 SRM color I am after.
I will include some Munich malt as well as CaraPils and acidulated malt, even some CaraMunich malt. I have not nailed down the grain bill yet. Adding some meanoidin malt will also darken the wort during the 90 min boil but I am not a fan of melanoidin malt. I find that it can be a bit over powering.
My local water is high in chloride so I have spent days making over 20 gal. of distilled water to build my own water. I make 15.5 gal batches.
So I have a lot invested in this.
I will also be making a giant starter from fresh WYeast Urquell yeast and controlling the fermentation and lagering temps, even for the starter.
Now I am no expert. Specially when it comes to making lagers. So if you find a fault to this plan of mine please feel free to throw some critique my way as well as some advice.
Thank you
Firebird400 from Iceland
I have been brewing all-grain since 2009 and have tried just about everything in the game with different success through out the years.
I have two temp controlled chest freezers for fermentation and lagering and loads of other brewing related gismos.
My brewing set-up is a lot different than must use. I have a home made computer controlled recirculated electric set-up with a giant stir-bar that tumbles the grain during mashing. This gives me efficiency of 90% every time.
This works great for just about everything I want to brew, other than styles that benefit from being decocted there is.
I could shut down the system and pull some grains from the mash to do a decotion but I worry that it could cause a blockage and ruin the whole thing.
What I want to do is pre-boil a portion of the grain bill to get the benefits of a decoction, mostly the added color but also all the other things a decotion gives. (not that I know for sure what that is)
I know that the grains I am using are very well modified and a dection is not needed but I want to include it.
So the question is, how much of the grain bill should be pre-boiled
I also know that a grain bill of mostly pilsner malt will not give me the 4 SRM color I am after.
I will include some Munich malt as well as CaraPils and acidulated malt, even some CaraMunich malt. I have not nailed down the grain bill yet. Adding some meanoidin malt will also darken the wort during the 90 min boil but I am not a fan of melanoidin malt. I find that it can be a bit over powering.
My local water is high in chloride so I have spent days making over 20 gal. of distilled water to build my own water. I make 15.5 gal batches.
So I have a lot invested in this.
I will also be making a giant starter from fresh WYeast Urquell yeast and controlling the fermentation and lagering temps, even for the starter.
Now I am no expert. Specially when it comes to making lagers. So if you find a fault to this plan of mine please feel free to throw some critique my way as well as some advice.
Thank you
Firebird400 from Iceland