les2point0
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Upon reading BYO's latest issue with an article in reference to kettle souring, I thought I would give it a try. Here's what I did. I mashed 95% pils and 5% wheat at 152 for 60. I oversparged an extra gallon, but the sparge was running at 7 Brix even at the end, so I didn't worry. I now have 8 gallons of wort at 1.048 preboil. The article said to do your boil and then add Lacto (Wyeast 5335) between 180 and 120 degrees and hold it there. Since I don't have an electric heating element I took the wort and poured it in my cooler, cylindrical mash tun at 150 degree and added the Lacto to the wort in the mash tun to attempt to sour it. The plan is to wait for it to get sour enough and then do my boil, chill, ferment. What I ran into was the heat did not hold. Its about 90 degrees in there, and on the second day there isnt much sour flavor. I realize this is all hard to decipher without a PH reading (I don't have a meter yet and I lent out my darn strips), but I was wondering should I just let it ride and wait a week? or should I perhaps throw it back on the burner, get it within range, and then toss it back into the cooler.
Included, I have zero experience with making sours.
Included, I have zero experience with making sours.