Re: Boiled krausen beer by mistake: what to do with it?
- From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar <spam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Jun 2006 20:27:14 GMT
On 30 Jun 2006 12:24:34 -0700, <leonidli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I kept in a fridge two mason jars for priming the Weizen: one of a
sweet wort ("speise") and one of a krausen beer. Being upset with stuck
fermentation I decided to prepare a new starter and then in a moment of
blackout took from a fridge a jar with krausening beer and heated it
almost to the boiling.
This former krausening and now perfectly dead beer is once more in a
fridge waiting for your verdict. It doesn't smell as a fresh beer. Can
it be used for priming the Weizen?
Well, first off it is much simpler and more controllable to just prime
the beer using simple priming sugar. Krausening is a practice that
commercial breweries use that just doesn't make much sense for
homebrewers. There's really no benefit to doing it, and it will
add in a lot of variables that you won't be able to easily control that
will make the carbonation results unpredictable.
However, boiling the wort you were keeping in the fridge should not have
done any significant harm. I still wouldn't recommend using it for
priming though, just use simple sugar.
John.
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