@RPh_Guy In the next few days I'll be making a post-souring sour pale ale and will add some Orval dregs to the bottling bucket for the last few bottles and see what happens.
100% Vienna
3oz each of Citra & Amarillo for dry hopping after a week
Voss kveik
Will mash @152, bring wort to...
Crush my own. From a good crush to flour, hasn't changed much. I'm at a loss to explain. I've been all grain brewing since the mid 1990's, never had a problem until I moved here. I now buy extra grains and do no-sparge to up my OG.
I moved to Texas and my efficiency went from the low 70's% to the low 50's%. I've tried RO water and mineral additions and it got me to the high 50's. Can't figure out WTF the problem is, other people here do just fine....
I used it once, it gave a very "deep" sour that had no flavors. No lactic twang. No citrusy flavors from what I could tell either. I would love to keep a starter of it next time. I would use it all the time but it's not offered very often and is more expensive than plantarum.
I believe it's...
Yep, it was plenty. No need for a 2L starter. A couple teaspoons would have been enough, the lid blew off at around 12hrs! :rock: Now I have a blowoff in! My whole 97F garage smells like orange marmalade:yes:
I'm really just looking to use the kveik I have in some other styles of beer. I have made a couple NEIPA's, pale ales, IPA, etc... I will be brewing this in a few days, a big strong dark with orange peel esters sounds pretty OK to me!
I have been using your Voss! I love it!! My quad recipe is super simple:
Between 17 and 20lbs of base malt
2-3 lbs candi syrup added at high krausen(~48 hours), usually D-180
HUGE pitch of active yeast
OG 1.08 to 1.1, FG 1.02 down to 1.002 depending on yeast
That's it. Temp control is key...
Bottled at 11.94%! Sticky sweet and flavorful, can't wait until Thanksgiving:)
I used a half bottle of Pyrat to melt the sugar for the ferment, and added a whole bottle of Pusser's to the bottling bucket!
This has to be my favorite recipe from this site :rock: