keithshead
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Hi, I have brewed a Baltic Porter as follows using my first ever lager yeast (that's the competition, any beer brewed with a bottom fermenting yeast);
19litre batch
3.3Kg Pils malt
0.3 Melanoiden (just to get rid of it)
1kg Brown malt
0.3kg Caramunich III
0.113kg Munich II
108g Black malt
108g Chocolate malt
500g Dry Amber Extract
500g Carapils (to boost up that head)
100g Saaz in total
Mashed at 66 degrees finishing at about 63 after 1 Hour
Fermented with plenty of White Labs German Bock Yeast
It started out as 1092 and was supposed to go all the way down to 1023 according to my Beersmith program but it has stopped around 1.030. I tried a little. it is nice but way too sweet.
It seemed to finish after 7days which i thought was kind of quick for a beer that heavy. The krausen totally collapsed back into the beer so it was definitely done.
I have raised the temperature for the diacatyle rest, i have roused it but to no avail.
I made a small starter with a pack of Saflager yeast to see if i can get it down anymore but there is no activity after a two days
So, can anyone suggest anything?
My local home brew store gave me a 3g pack of Copper Tun Dry Enzyme but i really don't want my beer to go way down 1.006 or something also feels like cheating. Perhaps if I put in a little? Anyone had any experience with this stuff?
Failing all this I was just going to lager it see what came out the other end and carbonate the hell out of it.
19litre batch
3.3Kg Pils malt
0.3 Melanoiden (just to get rid of it)
1kg Brown malt
0.3kg Caramunich III
0.113kg Munich II
108g Black malt
108g Chocolate malt
500g Dry Amber Extract
500g Carapils (to boost up that head)
100g Saaz in total
Mashed at 66 degrees finishing at about 63 after 1 Hour
Fermented with plenty of White Labs German Bock Yeast
It started out as 1092 and was supposed to go all the way down to 1023 according to my Beersmith program but it has stopped around 1.030. I tried a little. it is nice but way too sweet.
It seemed to finish after 7days which i thought was kind of quick for a beer that heavy. The krausen totally collapsed back into the beer so it was definitely done.
I have raised the temperature for the diacatyle rest, i have roused it but to no avail.
I made a small starter with a pack of Saflager yeast to see if i can get it down anymore but there is no activity after a two days
So, can anyone suggest anything?
My local home brew store gave me a 3g pack of Copper Tun Dry Enzyme but i really don't want my beer to go way down 1.006 or something also feels like cheating. Perhaps if I put in a little? Anyone had any experience with this stuff?
Failing all this I was just going to lager it see what came out the other end and carbonate the hell out of it.