08-19-2022, 11:17 PM
(08-17-2022, 11:48 PM)Gusso Wrote:(07-19-2022, 11:25 PM)dj in kc Wrote: Shaking it up a bit tomorrow. 30 min mash and boil. Glucoamylase goes in the mask and fermenter - all centennial FWH. And OYL Star Party. After a talk with young Drew this sounded like a good approach for a fruity dry summer slammer.......... We'll see in a few weeks. Shooting for an FG of 1.002 and 50+ IBUs but who knows with FWH. I used to treat a FWH as a 20 min addition and was happy with those.
So, how did it turn out? Not Star Party but I used Cosmic Punch. It didn't deliver the extreme hop difference I was expecting. Nice yeast but didn't meet the description. If I use it again, I will try more mash hops.
Disappointing. The most unbalanced beer I have ever brewed. Huge hop bite with a little fruity thing going and totally dried out. It does have alcohol though.... so I'll finish it
My kegged beer inventory got trashed a couple months ago so I brewed one to catch up. My window AC cooled chamber went down. AC died and a US-05 batch finished up at over 80df. Smelled like fusels when I dumped it. I have another AC to wire up (I'll rewire the defrosting fan to run when I want it to). Anyway I revived some Kveik Voss from last summer and used a spare ranco and space heater in the fermentation chamber. Just kegged it yesterday when I started another batch. It's nice finishing a beer quick. I forgot that last year that yeast (which I kept reusing either slurry or my usual reserving 600ml of starter for the next batch) was not floccing very well. I got remined when I kegged during the sparge. Tasted just fine. Yesterday I got a disappointing harvest from the dump valve but it still rallied the same day. I guess I can drink cloudy beer for a month or so. The first few batches last year with the KV cleared reasonably well as I remember.