Pumpkin beer without the spice Brewed November 10, 2020
Brewed 10/4/20 Never brewed the second half of the Festbier yeast experiment, so I went back to the recipe and used Imperilal Pilgrimage instead of WLP820. Decocted around 136-138 then mashed really low around 146-148. pH was a bit high around 5.6-5.7 even with 4g LA and 3g CaCL. Added more LA during the boil but only got down to 5.4ish. Added some more during the chill to get it down to 5.2-5.25. Transferred onto the yeast cake of a Helles but the volume was a bit low and gravity high ...
Intended to brew this twice, but only did the S23 version. Brewed twice with two different yeasts: Saflager 23 and WLP820 Only difference was mash temp given vastly different attenuation rates of the yeasts S-23 was high (156-58) to keep FG up, 820 was mashed low (148) to ferment out