Well, it didn’t work quite as I had hoped. The up side is it turns out we’re getting most of our mileage from our mash, washing the majority of the fermentable sugars from our grains in the first runnings. The down side is that that means we’re only going to get 1 batch per grain [...]
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Follow Up on 2nd Runnings Brew…
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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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