FreeLordBrewing
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I'm trying to formulate a recipe for an Imperial Black Kölsch. I am using the beer calculus from hopville. I did some online research/searching these forums and got some ideas but with the ingredients I have placed into the recipe calculator I got the OG at 1.078 and FG down to 1.019 making a 7.9% abv (which is where abouts I'd like to be or more is ok too lol). According to hopville the attenuation is set to 75% (average among most yeasts from what I read). Is that apparent, or actual attenuation?? I'd like to get the FG down to about 1.010-1.013 but will require the yeast to be at a minimal of 83% attenuation. and at current recipe at 83% I'll have a 8.7% beer!! thats still ok with me ha ha.
I just started keg'n and love it!! my last batch (kit from brewers best with extra hops i put in it) came out amazing!! it was my first Imperial, and first keg!! my first time using a 2 day starter, and yeast nutrient. (still using extract at this point) but according to a attenuation calculator I only achieved 75% apparent and 61% actual but I did hit the both the target OG (1.085) and just a tad bit off of the FG 1.021 (target was 1.017-1.020). coming in at 8.4%
for my last batch I used mrmalty to determine pitch rate, based my starter off of that and used a yeast nutrient in the boil, and in the starter, aerated the wort by pouring it heavily/fast through a wired colander producing a TON of wort foam!! (it was so much that I had a hard time reading OG) I use starstan as it breaks down into a yeast nutrient, and fermented at about 66-68 degrees.
how do I get more alcohol, keep the body light?? my only thought would be better attenuation....I attempted to put table sugar into the beer calculator off of hopville but found my Final gravity to be higher, than that of the same amount of light DME, which from what I read seems contradictory. Any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance - Shawn
I just started keg'n and love it!! my last batch (kit from brewers best with extra hops i put in it) came out amazing!! it was my first Imperial, and first keg!! my first time using a 2 day starter, and yeast nutrient. (still using extract at this point) but according to a attenuation calculator I only achieved 75% apparent and 61% actual but I did hit the both the target OG (1.085) and just a tad bit off of the FG 1.021 (target was 1.017-1.020). coming in at 8.4%
for my last batch I used mrmalty to determine pitch rate, based my starter off of that and used a yeast nutrient in the boil, and in the starter, aerated the wort by pouring it heavily/fast through a wired colander producing a TON of wort foam!! (it was so much that I had a hard time reading OG) I use starstan as it breaks down into a yeast nutrient, and fermented at about 66-68 degrees.
how do I get more alcohol, keep the body light?? my only thought would be better attenuation....I attempted to put table sugar into the beer calculator off of hopville but found my Final gravity to be higher, than that of the same amount of light DME, which from what I read seems contradictory. Any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance - Shawn