Maggie Kolsch - Saturday, November 21, 2020
Conical
I completely dissembled the Conical to give all of the parts a good clean. The dump elbow had a layer of calcium inside it which looked like it was put in there on purpose. Oxiclean overnight took it all away, which surprised me since it was there for what? 15 years? This will be cleaned on a regular basis. Blickmann suggests that after every 5-6 brews, you should not brew for 2 weeks to let it passivate, so I should do this again at that time.
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22 lbs. GTA Pils Malt
1 lb. Wheat
8 ozs. Acid Malt - ( 2.1% )
20.5 g German Magnum at 60 min.
56.70 g Hallertauer at 60 min.
113 g Hallertauer at 10
Imperial G03 Dieter ( 4 L starter with over build in a 500 ml jar ) * yeast pitched at 8 am Nov 22 ) *
Water Profile - 75/25 RO/Spring
6.75 gallons RO in mash
2.25 gallons spring in mash
7.50 gallons RO in sparge
2.50 gallons Spring in sparge
O.G. - 1.054 - ( 85% mash efficiency )
F.G. - 1.012
% - 5.5
SRM - 3.3
BU - 27
Thinking on adding a lb. ( 4% ) of Munich malt down the road. I think it will give it some tasty malt flavour which seems to be lacking in the Robobrew Kolsch. However, Kolsch isn't supposed to have a lot of malt or hop taste. I find it is very close to a Helles but with different yeast. Maybe in a Robobrew Helles.
BREW NOTES
Not sure, but I think I may of got my 75/25 water ratio wrong this morning. No coffee, half awake. I added 1.5 gallons of water to my sparge tank and checking my records I didn't need to do that. Next time I will add all water to tanks the night before. Other than that, a good brew day, but messy. I need to get better at cleaning my boiler as I got too much on the floor. Fermenting activity on Sunday night and going good on Monday morning. Steady blow off at 62F. Will do a d rest but late in the fermentation, like day 12-14 or when it starts to get real slow. Personally, I don't need to do one, but will do one anyway, can't hurt.
Day 6 - Steady activity, seems normal compared to my first one with this yeast. Painting Reign's room
after Christmas, so I can brew as much beer as I want before then.
Seems to be done on Sat Nov 28
Letting is sit for a day or so to see if there is any more activity, then slowly cool it down and keg on day 16 or around there. I won't need the Conical until Dec 18 for another big system Kolsch. Not totally done, one bubble every minute or so. It is done now. I am going to keg this on day 14, which is Dec. 6. I know it is kind of early, but this yeast is a real work horse and finishes on day 6-7. It takes another week or so to finally finish at 62F.
KEGGED ON SUNDAY, DEC. 6
This tasted great when I kegged it. All closed transfer, no peeking in the keg to see where the level is. I wait until it spirts out of the gas disconnect and immediately remove a litre to make room for my gelatin. I really over did the late addition of aroma hops. I didn't taste this when I kegged it. Maybe it was the first part from the bottom of the conical when I kegged it. Whatever the reason, I changed the recipe for Dec. 18 and lowered the amount by 50%. I can't sample the other keg as I can't get a beer connect on to it without shaking the dregs of gelatin on the bottom to see if it is the same or better. I can always go half and half when I trasnfer to other kegs before carbing up.
UPDATE ON FRIDAY DEC 11
Seems to be mellowing out a bit. So, hopefully by Dec. 26, it will be a good normal beer. Do not sample it until then. I gather this will not mellow out that much for boxing day, but you never know. It is drinkable any way. Going to transfer to new kegs on Dec. 12 and carb up. I am getting low on C02, great!
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