Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Kölsch update

I bottled the Kölsch after 15 days.  I fermented in the low 70's for 3 days, then I moved it to the garage where the fermentation temperatures were upper 50's to mid 60's.  Who'd have thunk that we'd have consistent 80º days in March?!  I was worried about getting too much Ester character from the higher fermentation temps, so I bottled.  Fermentation had slowed to a crawl.  I took a final gravity (FG) reading of 1.007 adjusted.  With an OG of 1.052 and a FG of 1.007, I calculate a 5.9% ABV.  (OG-FG)*133.  I sampled during bottling, as any good homebrewer would.  Delicious!

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