agentbud
Well-Known Member
I am usually of the mind that if something goes wrong on brew day, it's ok - it'll still be beer. So, this question is not "is my beer messed up?", it's more of a technical question of how the faux pas might change the beer. I have a NEIPA recipe I have brewed several times that I really like. In addition to the 2-row and a few specialty grains, it calls for 1 lb of flaked oats and 1 lb of flaked wheat. I finished the mash and was about 30 minutes into a 75 minute boil when I realized I had left the 2 lbs of flaked grains out of the mash. No hops had been added so far, so I decided to cool the wort back down to mash temp, add the flaked oats and wheat and mash for an additional 20-25 minutes. Then drained and removed the flaked grains and continued on with the boil. Any thoughts on how that might affect the beer, specifically the re-cooling phase back down to mash temp and the shorter mash time for the flaked oats/wheat?