Questions tagged [wort]
The liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky. Wort contains the sugars that will be fermented by the brewing yeast to produce alcohol.
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Home-made LME&DME-is it achievable?
Pretty often when you brew an all-grain batch you get a quantity of extra wort with no apparent use. A common practice is to keep some of that wort for a starter for the next batch. Could someone ...
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Is this wort infected? (*Picture)
This is my 30th or so batch and I've never seen this before.
The best way I can describe it is that it looks like summer in the Arctic and pieces of ice are breaking off the ice caps.
Any idea as ...
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Would you trust this starter?
I had one WLP001 vial of yeast that was only 14 days past its "best buy" date. I made a starter on a stir plate 2 full days before brewing. I got good growth as estimated by an increase in creamy ...
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How much wort should be left in the brew pot?
I just did a 3 Gallon boil with about 100g of hops.
It felt like I left a lot of wort in the brew pot when transferring to the fermenter. It was a struggle to keep the flow in the siphon due to all ...
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My cooled wort got contaminated by tap water. What are the primary consequences of re-boiling?
One of the hose clamps for the cooling spiral malfunctioned, so my cooled wort got contaminated by roughly 10 liters of tap water (in a 55 L batch). This is a lager beer which will be stored for five ...
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Where do you brew?
This Saturday (1/2/09) will be my very first time brewing and I am considering my options as far as location.
I have seen some folks boiling their wort outside on a gas grill and the smiling people ...
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How much will initial oxygen in wort affect final alcohol in beer?
According to White and Zainasheff: Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation
By Chris White and Jamil Zainasheff, wort should have 10 mg/L (10 ppm) with dissolved oxygen before pitching. This ...
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Potential causes of unreliable pre-boil gravity measurement
I usually take a hydrometer reading immediately after sparge so that I can calculate total points of gravity (i.e. gravity reading * volume), and from there calculate what volume of wort I should ...
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Does the amount of Diastatic Power of the grains influence the alcohol content of the beer?
If one grain bill has a combined amount diastatic power equal to 70 degrees Lintner and the other one 90 does this influence the amount of alcohol the end product will have?
I guess the potency of ...
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Speed to collect wort from the mash tun for maximum efficiency
I want to optimize my efficiency, and I was wondering is the speed at which I collect my wort has an incidence on it.
Right now I would say that I collect 1 liter of wort each 30-45 seconds. I get ...
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What amount of taste customization can I do with pre-prepared wort (from a kit)?
I really enjoy bitter beers, and would really like to add hops to my next brew. However, I've only done one homebrew so far and it was using a pre-made kit (I used the Edme Bitter wort and malt ...
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How to store sugar wort?
Do you guys have best plan to store longer for sugar wort to propagate yeast ?
I usually take wort after boiling step during brewing and stored at 5 C inside 20 liter container.
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Boil with DME for ...
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Can wort layering significantly affect OG reading?
A few days ago I brewed a 5-gallon recipe with the following fermentables:
8 oz Crystal 20
8 oz Crystal 40
One 3.3 lb can Briess Munich LME
2.5 lb Light LME
Beer Calculus predicts an OG of 1.046.
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Whirfloc shelf life and use
Making a batch and for the first time the recipe calls for a whirfloc tablet. From what I understand the tablet assists with settling the haze produced by proteins. I've read a half tablet to 5 gals. ...
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What could cause a significant increase in proteins?
During today's brew, my wort looked like hot and sour soup, there was an incredible amount of floating proteins, like somebody dropped a small loaf of bread in there and it was breaking apart. This ...
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How to chill wort
I have made a few batches of beer from those home brew kits sold at Brew n Grow. When I cook the beer, I only am boiling 2.5 gallons instead of the whole 5, per instructions, and then I add the other ...
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How to reduce head when aerating wort with an aquarium pump
Last night I embarked on a fun adventure to create a 14-16% ABV beer (Dema Goddess Ale), and it calls for aeration via an air pump that you would typically use in an aquarium. Due to the high ...
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Is there a maximum theoretical solubility of brewing sugars in Malt water?
I normally use 10# pounds of grain in a 7.5 gallon boil, and normally hit between 1.045 and 1.055 OG, after it evaporates down to 6+ gallons, depending on the amount of dark grains used. My stove ...
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Extract Brewing - Cooling down wort by adding cold water?
I don't have a wort chiller yet. I always cool down my wort with 20 pounds of ice and bucket that I place my kettle into.
Since I am extract brewing and will be adding 2.5 gallons of water anyways, I ...
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How long can beer be exposed in a primary fermentation bucket?
I was recently doing a batch of beer and for some reason the temp of the beer after I put it in the primary fermentation bucket wasn't low enough to pinch the yeast right away. I left the top off of ...
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GCB Materials on Cold Wort Aeration
Currently studying for the General Certificate in Brewing from the IBD.
The section on wort oxygenation/aeration states that a disadvantage of in-line cold wort aeration is the
need to increase ...
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Acid production in sugar wash fermentation vs wort/beer fermentations
I have been experimenting with sugar wash fermentations. I've tried sucrose (cane sugar) as well as dextrose (corn sugar) and observed stalled fermentations in both, in spite of sufficient yeast ...
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Mold on wort pre-pitch
I've got a bit of mold on top of my wort. My situation is a bit different than what others seem to have encountered... I made the wort about 5 days ago and hadn't gotten around to pitching the yeast....
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Does this look infected?
Trying out my first batch of home brew... it's a central smash IPA one gallon recipe boiled over on me, so this is a very small 3/4 gallon batch ha. I see a lot of floating green. Nothing's moving ...
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After the Ice Bath of the Wort, should I pour the sludge from the kettle into the carboy?
I am just an extract brewer; I buy everything from NB. The instructions say:
"Fill primary fermenter with 2 gallons of cold water, then pour in the cooled wort. Leave any thick sludge in the bottom ...
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FG dropped after wort cooled
Did a brew yesterday, hit the desired SG after the boil time - or so I thought. After cooling the wort, the SG dropped 2 points. What would cause this?
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Why would I add water to a cooling wort?
I'm refering specifically to this question:
Should I boil water before adding it to the cooled wort?
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Sanitizing the wort pot
Should i sanitize the pot that i will be using the prepare the wort before i use it? I will be using one of Mr. Beer hopped malt extracts and this is my first brew. The manual does not say anything ...
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How to add DME to the wort
I typically use LME for my wort, with no prblems, but this time I am trying a slightly bigger beer and want to add DME to boost the OG.
The one time I tried adding DME to my wort, I just dumped it ...
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5 gallon recipe calls for 3 gallon wort, rest added. Can I use all 5 to make wort?
Relatively new brewer here. I have a recipe that says to boil three gallons of the water in a five gallon pot (to create the wort). And then later to add in the remaining water. I bought an eight ...
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PPG tables online?
Does anybody know if a table of ppg for various common ingredients can be found online somewhere?
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How low an original gravity is too low?
I just brewed this extract IPA. I had 4.6 gal in the fermentor when I measured original gravity at 1.053 (@80 degrees), on the low end of the target range for 5 gallons (target 1.059, or 1.053-1.062)....
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Did I correctly add fruit flavour to my beer?
On a whim, I decided to make a raspberry flavoured IPA. I bought a pre-made wort and some liquid malt extract.
Basically, I boiled about 1.5L of water with some raspberries in one of those hop mesh ...
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What to do with blowout Krausen/wort
Surprised I couldn't find an answer to this so I'm posting the question.
I brewed my first imperial stout. Fermentation was super happy, krausen went wild and my airlock blew out (from what I'm seeing ...
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Can I move the beer to another location while its fermenting?
I have my equipment in a town that is 2 hours from where I live, this last month is being hard to travel there too often so it is making very complicate the fermenting and bottling process. So I'm ...
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Best time to transport wort in a car
I'm planning on brewing my first batch of beer soon, but I will have to do the cooking part at my parents house, which is an hour drive away, and then ferment the beer at my apartment. At what stage ...
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Is it ok if my transferred wort has some undissolved hops in it?
Today I brewed my first 5 gallon batch. A pumpkin ale! Super stoked, but it was hard to avoid getting some of the undissolved hops in it as I transferred the force chilled wort to the primary ...
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How can I determine why some all-grain wort is cloudy and if I should do anything about it?
TL;DR How can I tell what this cloudiness in my wort is? will it cause off flavors? if so, how do I get rid of it? and most importantly, if this is a problem, how can I prevent this from happening ...
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Pitched Yeast at 80-85 deg. Problem?
I pitched English Ale yeast (white labs) around 80 deg, not realizing it was that warm. Relative temp in the room is 68, but wort will not cool down below 80....strange! Its been about 24 hours at ...
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how well to strain wort after boil
Just wondering how well you folks strain your wort when transferring to primary.
I brewed my first batch last night and, aside from forgetting to take an OG reading, everything went well. However, ...
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New batch of wort in primary for 24hrs now and no "krausen" forming. Trouble?
This is my second batch of wort. My first went so smoothly I decided to start another in the primary after racking the fisrt over to the carboy. It's been sitting in the primary now for 24hrs and ...
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Suggestions for inline heating unit housing for wort circulator?
I built an inline heating element assembly using some 1" copper pipe, a 1" threaded female fitting and some 1/2" fittings. The idea is, wort comes in from the bottom 1/2" fitting, flows over the ...
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After how long of a boil will LPT1 and other head retention proteins denature?
I've read that certain proteins denatured during the wort boil is responsible for causing great, delicious foam.
I don't get me no foam.
I'm also doing partial boils using extract.
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How to store wort without hops
I forgot to pick up the hops from the homebrew store I was at and have the mashed wort ready to boil but no hops. Are there certain precautions or a certain way to store the unboiled wort until I pick ...
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Thermal expansion of wort
Does anybody know an algorithm or a calculator to compute thermal expansion of worts?
Most of the time in homebrewing materials, it is said that in volume calculations one should account for 4% ...
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What does scorched wort taste like?
I just did my first batch on a campchef propane burner http://cascadeclimbers.com/gear/hiking/product/Camp-Chef-Yukon-Stove.html Problem is that in the during the boil it never crossed my mind that ...
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Best way to rack to fermenter [duplicate]
After the wort is chilled and ready to rack to the fermenter, I run into a problem. When pouring wort into the strainer in the funnel, a ton of hop gunk gets stuck. Then I need to scrape and repeat ...
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can I top off at 5.25 gallons instead of 5?
I have been brewing extract kits and was wondering if it'd be al right to top off at 5.25 gallons?
Directions say 5 but I have never kegged a full 5 gallons, was hoping the extra quarter would get me ...
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Why is my wort dark?
I recently brewed a beer with 70% pilsner malt, 28% light munich malt, and 2% chocolate malt. I used RO water, a 1 hour rest at 156 deg, and fly sparged. I had no means to check PH.
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Wort Contamination?
Making my first beer and during my last temp check I dropped the thermometer into my wort bucket, instinctively i immediately reached in and pulled it out. My hands were cleaned and sanitized and my ...
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