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We brewed what could be a unique beer the other day: a "Dunkel Weiss Wien" (?). It's a barleywine (a bit on the light side with OG ~ 1.086) made with German dark wheat and Munich malt. The long boil hop is Apollo ( an awesome super alpha/ dual purpose hop), with 10 OZ of Fuggle and 10 OZ of EKG (10 gallon batch) dumped in at 15 minutes. We were a tad short on rice hulls, so the sparge took forever, but it all worked out.
My buddy (his recipe) made the questionable decision of dumping Burton salts in the mash (not sure what he was thinking) and we subsequently had a low ph problem which led to an interesting discovery; a small (VERY small, so be careful) amount of 'pickling salt', Calcium hydroxide, is good for raising ph. The small bag we picked up at the grocery store is probably a lifetime supply. It all worked out, pitched a hyperactive starter of Danstar Windsor into it.
What have you guys brewed lately?
My buddy (his recipe) made the questionable decision of dumping Burton salts in the mash (not sure what he was thinking) and we subsequently had a low ph problem which led to an interesting discovery; a small (VERY small, so be careful) amount of 'pickling salt', Calcium hydroxide, is good for raising ph. The small bag we picked up at the grocery store is probably a lifetime supply. It all worked out, pitched a hyperactive starter of Danstar Windsor into it.
What have you guys brewed lately?