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Maggie Kolsch - Wednesday, March 26 - Mr. Robobrew

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If my Kolsch seems fine, go ahead and make another one to keep the yeast slurry active and not  too old. You have 25 B cells. Make a 2.75 L hybrid yeast starter and put 2.5 L of starter in your flask. I am keeping the same water profile I used before and adding some Vienna malt. Hopefully, the new hops I got work better than my old 1.8% AA no flavour hops. Turning up my mill a bit to get slightly better efficiency. Your over build yeast starter is in your 500 ml flask. Use 263 grams of DME in a 2.75 L starter. Boil off should get you to 2.5 L of starter wort.  As of March 21st, I am not getting a lot of slurry on the bottom of my 500 ml flask. Too early? Not sure, but this is where my 50 ml flask comes in handy. I will use a sharpie to mark levels in it so I can figure out an approx of slurry for future starters. I do have over 3 weeks to make another one, so let it settle out in the fridge. The last Kolsch was very clean so this should be the same. More malt and more hops wer...