Try a lb of oats too. It will make the head retention and mouthfeel amazing.
millaj92 said:I've never used oats before. Do you just use instant oats and add them to the mash?
brianbrau said:Gonna brew this today and im going over the posts again and noticed for yeast receipe calls for 2 packages of us-05. Is this over kill? Because I've used the 05 in a ag Og 1.075 and had fg of 1.007-1.010. Has any one used only 1 package of yeast?
brianbrau said:Never though of it like that. I just thought it either had enough to get the gravity low enough so its not too sweet or it did not. How would you explain the double ipa I had at og of 1.073 getting down to 1.010 on fg? Im confused :0
Cool. Today was a disaster I left out the rice hulls an ended up with a stuck sparge 2min in. The wort smelled great though and had an awesome orange color to it! Rather than vesting more time into it and ending up with sour beer in an account of it dropping temp and taking who knows how long I pitched it!! I will start this from scratch and do it right tomorrow it is already late in the evening
millaj92 said:My first two batches of this I only used one packet of US-05 and both times I had less than 12 hours lag time, no stuck fermentations, and no off flavors from underpitching. I'll be making my third batch this weekend and adding some oats at Reno_eNVy's suggestion just to see if it'll thicken it up a little with the mouth feel. I know I will since I say something but I've never had a problem with a stuck sparge, even on this beer. Just out of curiosity, what kind of design do you have on your lauder tun, brian brau?
It has a copper tube inside the braid w drilled holes... my air lock has slowed down drastically at only day 2! Feeling like I should pf pitched only 1 package of yeast. Might need to check gravity in a day or 2 and stir and areate more
Are u saying pre fab a false bottom w p/u tube?
millaj92 said:Is the ss braid just the standard mesh tube? If so, I think your setup is probably what's causing your stuck sparge. Nothing wrong with the cooler, but you might want to build a manifold instead, to increase your "false bottom" surface area to mash volume ratio. The higher the better.
Yeah I've used the same ss braid for a couple years now with zero problems.
KCBigDog said:I just tapped my keg of this that had been naturally carbing in the keg for 6 weeks. The beer tastes sour and is under carbed. This is the first beer I've made that didn't turn out excellent, so I'm trying to figure out what could cause the carbination issue.
The sour taste could be the spices, and it isn't sour enough to be brett or something like that.
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