Will souring the wort in my current mash tun make it unusable later? I know fermenting sours makes the plastic buckets a huge crapshoot for the next brew if its not a sour so I assume that my cooler tun will do the same no?
Will souring the wort in my current mash tun make it unusable later? I know fermenting sours makes the plastic buckets a huge crapshoot for the next brew if its not a sour so I assume that my cooler tun will do the same no?
NO, your mash tun does not need to be sanitary! Souring a batch in it is no risk IMHO. Of course, a good cleaning and maybe a dash of sanitizer will do fine afterwards.
Most anything preboil is infected, grain has the lacto souring bacteria on it naturally, hence why we need to boil.
The MT is preboil...RDWHWHB
Awesome, so the biggest thing is instead of killing off the bugs right away you let them do their thing for 2-3 days and then kill them off good to know thanks!
Never did one, but I thought one method is to do the mash, let cool to around 120 and add a few cups of fresh grain to introduce the souring lacto... I think you can purchase specific cultures as well.....
Thinking I would like to try this as well, so please post your experience, good and bad.
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