drewseslu
05-25-2009, 10:01 AM
I am working on a plan to brew up a Baltic Porter, but I am totally maxed out on production on our tiny brewery for our tiny restaurant.
The plan is to get the beer fermented, d-rested, crashed to drop 'enough' of the yeast out, carbonated and keg it for lagering until winter.
I am shooting for around 9% ABV and have no filter, so I will need to just crash the yeast out. Whirlfloc T will be used in the kettle.
The plan is to pitch 5 gallons of WL 830 German Lager into 4.5bbls of 21 Plato wort.
Is it reasonable to assume that this amount of this strain (very healthy from a 11.5 Plato ferment at a neighboring brewery) could ferment this out to 4 Plato (apparent) in about a week, starting at 55 dF and ramping up to 60-ish dF at the end of fermentation? Ramping up at the end should shorten the D-rest a bit, as well.
That puts the beer at around 1.5 weeks and maybe 3-3.5 weeks for crashed cold conditiong before kegging to lager the remaining time.
Does this all seem reasonable? Or should I just continue my cries of "WE NEED MORE TANKS!!"?
The plan is to get the beer fermented, d-rested, crashed to drop 'enough' of the yeast out, carbonated and keg it for lagering until winter.
I am shooting for around 9% ABV and have no filter, so I will need to just crash the yeast out. Whirlfloc T will be used in the kettle.
The plan is to pitch 5 gallons of WL 830 German Lager into 4.5bbls of 21 Plato wort.
Is it reasonable to assume that this amount of this strain (very healthy from a 11.5 Plato ferment at a neighboring brewery) could ferment this out to 4 Plato (apparent) in about a week, starting at 55 dF and ramping up to 60-ish dF at the end of fermentation? Ramping up at the end should shorten the D-rest a bit, as well.
That puts the beer at around 1.5 weeks and maybe 3-3.5 weeks for crashed cold conditiong before kegging to lager the remaining time.
Does this all seem reasonable? Or should I just continue my cries of "WE NEED MORE TANKS!!"?