Lactose addition??

[duboman]

His weekend I am brewing the AHA recipe of the month- Peaches and Cream Hefeweizen and it calls for an addition of lactose powder.

The recipe calls for this to be added at the bottling in the bottling bucket.

I am wondering if this needs to be sanitized or prepared in any way prior or can it be added at flame out as well.

I've never used this stuff, is it fermentable and is that why it's added at bottling?

Appreciate the input!

 

[kapbrew13]

I've added at15 minutes to flameout. Not fermentable if I remember correctly.

 

[VinceF]

I've added at15 minutes to flameout. Not fermentable if I remember correctly.

Agree, not fermentable. You can probably save a step and add toward the end of the boil.

 

[duboman]

Thanks for the follow up, since this is not fermentable and the recipe called for addition at bottling and I add it at the end of the boil should I assume then and calculate accordingly that the OG will be different from the recipe? I assume also the OG will be higher than the recipe states?
Also to assume the FG will correspondingly be higher as well due to the non fermentable addition?

 

[kapbrew13]

Sounds good. Won't add alcohol but sweetness and mouth feel or something.