Hopefully it is not an issue. I will likely not open the fermenter until I am ready to bottle and just give fermentation some extra time to finish.
These ones better? My Friday night plans changes and what is a guy to do...but brew some more beer?? The Hallertauer vs Hersbrucker shootout. (I will admit that the German hop naming convention confuses me.)
The motivation for these batches were 1) I am planning to brew a few Belgian beers this year and wanted to try out some common hops 2) I have some harvested WLP530 that I want to build up and 3) I wanted to see how I liked WLP530 in a Single-style beer (I loved it in a Dubbel last year). WLP530 can be an aggressive fermenter, so hopefully I have enough headroom in these. I will swap to a bung and airlock once fermentation starts to slow.
These are just 1 lb Pilsner DME, 3.5 quarts of water pre-boil (to target 3 quarts post boil), 20 min boil with 0.5 oz hops at 20 min, and 0.5 oz hops at 2 min. The other batches were the same with just using Pale Ale DME instead.
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