Anybody can brew beer, but it can be like handling plutonium to create great beer that is repeatable. Your two greatest allies in that pursuit are time and temperature. Giving the beer the time it needs to fully bloom is essential, and something that took a lot – and I mean a lot – of [...]
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Understanding Attenuation in Home Brewing
We recently brewed a maibock using Rogue’s Pacman yeast as distributed by wYeast that we picked up from the nice folks at Homebrewer’s Outpost. Today when we checked our gravity after about 5 days of fermenting we were a bit below our goal of 1.016, coming in at about 1.023. Knowing that PacMan yeast is [...]
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