jdoiv
Well-Known Member
I brewed up a Wit awhile back and put it into my fridge this past week. Taste is great and the carbonation level seems good, but I'm not getting any real head or head retention with it. It will have a head on it only if I try and pour a head (not tilting the glass) but it will have large CO2 bubbles and then quickly fade and disappear. I don't use a rinse agent in the dishwasher, so I don't think that is the problem. At first I thought it just wasn't quite carbed up enough, but I can taste the carbonation on the sides of my tongue and see lots of small CO2 bubbles escaping up through the beer. I naturally carb my kegs and the keg was holding pressure before I put it in the fridge.
The recipe was:
9.67# Pilsen 2-row (from Canada Malting)
7.2# Flaked Wheat
1.8# Flaked Oats
Hallertau at 60 and Saaz at 5
Also had 2 oz coriander and 2 oz of dried bitter orange peel (which I rehydrated during the mash).
I did a protein rest at 127 (was shooting for 122) then direct heated the mash up to 154. Mashed out after an hour at 168 and sparged.
Could the protein rest have negatively affected the head retention? Or could it have been the rehydrating of the orange peel? In the past I've used regular 2-row Pale malt instead of the Pilsen and have had a tremendous white fluffy head with this beer. So could the Pilsen malt have a cause in this? I just brewed a tripple using a lot of this same Pilsen malt. I hope it doesn't have this problem as well.
Any thoughts?
The recipe was:
9.67# Pilsen 2-row (from Canada Malting)
7.2# Flaked Wheat
1.8# Flaked Oats
Hallertau at 60 and Saaz at 5
Also had 2 oz coriander and 2 oz of dried bitter orange peel (which I rehydrated during the mash).
I did a protein rest at 127 (was shooting for 122) then direct heated the mash up to 154. Mashed out after an hour at 168 and sparged.
Could the protein rest have negatively affected the head retention? Or could it have been the rehydrating of the orange peel? In the past I've used regular 2-row Pale malt instead of the Pilsen and have had a tremendous white fluffy head with this beer. So could the Pilsen malt have a cause in this? I just brewed a tripple using a lot of this same Pilsen malt. I hope it doesn't have this problem as well.
Any thoughts?