first pilsner - decoction questions.

[aStoutObserver]

Did anything get settled on here? I am going to be doing my first lager soon and am very interested in what some of the smarter minds on here have to say on this still. I may just have to do an infusion and decoction with the same recipe and decide for myself.

 

[stpug]

Did anything get settled on here? I am going to be doing my first lager soon and am very interested in what some of the smarter minds on here have to say on this still. I may just have to do an infusion and decoction with the same recipe and decide for myself.

Yes. Denny is wrong, and everyone else is right. Decoctions make a difference for the better (unless you f*ck it up, then it's for the worse ).

But you should do both for yourself and decide for yourself. That's the only way you'll ever really know if it makes a difference to you.

 

[ajdelange]

Well he was right in the sense that the only way to tell is by the double blind triangle test but he is wrong if he concludes that decoctions do not produce better beer than other means based on the tests that were linked to in this thread because those tests were not triangle tests.