Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Your Attenuation, Please!

So, in an attempt to better understand my brewing process and to help me formulate recipes, I've gone through and calculated the attenuation rates for my first five brews. The results are interesting:

BeerYeastMash TempOGFGAttenuation
Blackacre Butte #11318 London Ale III152°*1.030**1.006**80%
Blackacre Butte #21318 London Ale III152°1.050**1.008**84%
Seven-Eleven Porter1028 London Ale156°1.046**1.010**78%
Foam Dome Stout1084 Irish Ale154°1.0511.00982%
Mulligan ESB1968 London ESB148°1.0561.01279%


* This was hardly a "mash" in the traditional sense, really more of a long steep.
** These hydrometer readings do not account for temperature, so they may be off one or two points.

So, 152° appears to be the butter zone for creating fermentable sugars. I'll have to keep this in mind.

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