Maggie Kolsch - Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Ingredients
11 lbs. German Pilsner - 95%
9.30 ozs. Vienna - 5%
17 g German Magnum - 12.7% AA at 60 min.
56.70 g Saaz - 2.8% AA at 170 F during chilling.
28.35 g Hallertauer dry hopped 5 days before kegging.
Escarpment Labs Kolsch
Water Profile
CA - 50
S04 - 70
CI - 70
PH - 5.30
O.G. - 1.047
F.G. -
% -
SRM - 3
BU - 25
Looks a lot lighter than using UCM.
FERMENTATION NOTES
Next Day - Nothing, not a thing. I thought I washed the yeast the right way, now I am rethinking that.
I am pretty sure I did it right. I added a couple of litres of water, swirled it around, and
tossed it in the gallon jug. Let it sit until the next day in the fridge. I added everything. I
let it warm up, shook it good, and added everything in the new wort. Hmmm, not a thing.
Temp is 17.3 C. I think I will bring it out and put it on the bench and turn the wall heater
on. May swirl it around with a spoon to help it along.
UPDATE
It is going now at 9 am. Only 18 hours later.
April 18 - Day 3
Going real good. No krausen over flow yet, but this is a cool fermentation so that may not happen at all.
April 20
Slowed down and shut keezer off. Cover with garbage bag and maybe the temp will rise for a d rest. Most likely not as it is still bloody cold outside. 5 C and raining for days now.
April 21
Left it in the keezer, shut it off and that is it. Will be done soon. Will brew this again and toss new wort on top of this and that will be it for this yeast. I am good until mid May.
April 23
Up in my shower now to warm up a bit and maybe finish drier. It is still bubbling away, but very slow. It might get a point or two. No sample was taken. This beer always starts out great when I take a sample. The last one had no flavour and what flavour it did have was not to my liking.
ADDED SOME HALLERTAUER TO CARBOY
ON APRIL 27. KEG IT IN 4 DAYS.
I have to do something to get some sort of flavour out of it. Had to be an ounce, maybe more. It has that kind of unpleasant flavour the last one had with this yeast. Done, going back to White Labs. Yea, should not of added the dry hops. This was also the clearest beer I have ever made. Do not blame the yeast with this brew. You dry hopped which made it taste like shit. You also used Vienna malt which you hate. So, change the recipe and brew some more.
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