Head not sticking around/or hardly forming

SwampassJ · Sep 10, 2010

I have two separate beers from Edwort. One is his Bavarian wheat and the other is the robust porter. While both have carbonation to style, neither want to hold a head ahead, and if it does it's a tiny layer of a head.

Any suggestions? Only these two beers seem to be having issues holding a head, all the others are good/too freaking much and the carbonation is good too.

Legin · Sep 10, 2010

That's odd about the Bavarian. Wheat ales usually have amazing head retention. Did you hit the mash temps dead on? Scratch that. For a second i was thinking protein rests for better head, but that shouldn't matter. I'm interested to see what the pros say.

Check this out:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/little-no-head-retention-137803/

DaveZ · Sep 10, 2010

I usually throw 4-8 oz's of carapils/dextrin to keep head reasonable. I also stick to common brewery cleaners(pbw,green oxiclean, etc) and away from any kind of soap/detergent as that seems to kill head retention too.
Cheers,
Dave

SwampassJ · Sep 10, 2010

Legin said:
That's odd about the Bavarian. Wheat ales usually have amazing head retention. Did you hit the mash temps dead on? Scratch that. For a second i was thinking protein rests for better head, but that shouldn't matter. I'm interested to see what the pros say.

Check this out:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/little-no-head-retention-137803/

The wheat I had a lot of issues maintaining mash temps, still finished higher than edworts did, and the Porter has a half pound of flaked barely in it but I did get crap effeciency on that one.

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