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Just a warning from my last lager. Which turned out good. But, taste the oktoberfest before you package/keg. Taste it a couple times. If you notice any diacetyl (butter) you have a few options to cure it prior to kegging

Oh it's already been cold crashed, kegged, and about halfway empty now. No off flavors that I could appreciate. I was going to take out of the kegerator so I could raise the temp of the fridge to ferment the pale ale at the correct and stable temperature. I know that letting the already carbed and chilled keg come to room temperature will let co2 out of solution which may require an increase in psi to keep carbonation up. Just figured it's better to have to adjust the pressure and chill growlers when needed rather than potentially ruin 5g of a new beer.

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assuming the base malt is 2 row? The recipe i used was 85% 2 row, and like i said, tasted a little thin, but that is likely due to a lower FG, not the malt bill. Try it and see how you like it.

I figured it's basically like doing a SMaSH beer. It can't hurt to have a good command of a classic hop like cascade.

Regarding hop additions I may hold that dry hop addition as a keg hop. I'm now fermenting in a keg and doing o2 free transfers. I figure I can push the sanitizer out of the serving keg, add the keg hops, purge, and then transfer the beer over. This might reduce the chance of oxidizing. I have one of those metal tea straining balls that might help avoid hops clogging up the dip tube. So I'm now thinking boil hop, 1oz 10 min addition, larger flameout, 2oz bio trans in fermenting keg, and 2 oz keg hop. I want to avoid grassy/vegetal flavors and hop burn. Also I've read that 5g reaches saturation with about 4 oz dry hop.

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Posted by BugAC

St. George

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Posted on 9/24/20 at 9:51 am to puffulufogous

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I have one of those metal tea straining balls that might help avoid hops clogging up the dip tube.

I bought a few of those and used them once. They didn't hold much hops at all. Remember, the pellets will expand when they get wet. The expansion broke a few of the teaballs. I ended up trashing them and bought some of these filters. Works fantastic, both for keg hopping (on the dip tube), and racking from the fermenter for a hop heavy beer, or a fruited beer.

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A tip though, if using with a sterile siphon starter (pictured below), you'll need to trim the filter down. I cut a few inches from the top with some scissors so the filter will fit all the way into the fermenter. Also, remove the red plug cap at the bottom of the siphon starter, if not you'll likely have some stuck transfers.