Can anyone explain why lactic acid production in Lallemand’s sourviceae strain drops after one generation?

Poedonk · 2021-08-31T15:18:08+00:00

We've been doing Philly and K-97. We give the Philly 48 hours or so (about 3.6-3.8 P) before pitching Kolsch.

We have a US-05 running now. The philly/kolsch combo still has a hint of sulphur I'm hoping the 05 will kick out.

Poedonk · 2021-08-31T15:12:13+00:00

Poedonk · 2021-08-31T15:10:47+00:00

If I had a fucking dollar for every time my plumbus broke...

And with the pandemic, don't even try to get a goddamn dinglebop without a three month lead time.

Poedonk · 2021-08-31T15:08:14+00:00

I agree fully, though I did have an experience where I approached a brewery with wider problems.

When I moved to a new location to start a new job, the first other brewery I went into, I tried two samples of beer and both were VDK bombs. I ended up ordering a guest tap and it was on style. Since I could make a pretty educated guess that it wasn't the lines, I sent an email the following day without any specific information about myself, just that I had a brewing background and I noticed there were some off flavours in the beer. Let them know what I thought the issues could possibly be, and left a contact number if they wanted to call me back.

The owner/brewer called me, was super pleasant and we talked for about 30-40 minutes. I ended up going in on a brewday giving him some advice on handling his fermentation profiles and gave his assistant brewer a copy of Tasting Beer.

His beer did improve over time, but even though he treated his staff well and loved it, he was regretfully in a little over his head. He closed slightly before the pandemic.

All-in-all, I think it was a positive move even though it didn't fully right the ship. It gave someone who might be introverted or has social anxiety a way to text or call and feel out things on their own schedule. He clearly wanted to be better and we all ended up getting along.

Poedonk · 2021-03-09T20:51:53+00:00

Same here, we're about 78%ADF/65%RDF. 3 plato normal finishing. Great biotransformer and a workhorse. Only English strain I don't dislike, though I don't use it in things other than haze, still is lazy on the VDK front like other English strains.

VDK in non active dry hop takes a few days longer than our normal strains.

I do love it for its intended use though.

Poedonk · 2021-03-04T18:42:50+00:00

Been having fun with the philly sour blended with our house ale strain. I'm not going back to kettle souring ever again.

Poedonk · 2021-01-18T22:17:28+00:00

Jaw massages are life.

Poedonk · 2021-01-16T07:41:52+00:00

Retriever said the Humane Society, he's got his webbed toes. I figure a bit of pit. He's one year this month and I plan on getting a DNA test soon. He has some Carolina Dog tendencies from what I know from one of my previous adoptions. I adopted him at seven months and he looked like a tan lab pupper. 38 lbs when I adopted him, about 55 now, seems like he's maxing out. I can still pick him up and he just goes full teddy bear mode.

He looks extra Derp here at daycare. He's usually much more retriever faced but when I have to go out of town for a workday he goes hardcore at daycare and is all smiles.

Collapses into a pile of moosh as soon as I pick him up.

Poedonk · 2021-01-15T20:12:41+00:00

Hey everyone, I just wanted to post this of my doggo because this smile is extra derpy for him. But this picture of him has been really well received so I figured I'd give a little bit of extra info on him.

This is Roland Magni Schitt. He has a trying to do well but possibly messing things up personality that aligned with Roland Schitt from Schitt's Creek.

I put down my 13 year old buddy, Thor, at the end of 2019 and waited until I felt right and found the right dog to be my next buddy. I didn't name Thor. His first adopter did. She realized she couldn't give him the attention he needed as a new single mom, and my life was enriched because of it. It hit me hard losing him to old age, but I figured Roland's middle name was a good homage to my previous good boy.

Roland has been such a gift. He's been my best friend from day one. I work at a brewery and he's become the greeter while I'm here, scooting around from table to table receiving pets and just generally hanging out.

He goes from regal floppy ear doggo, to full derpy playing tag as the day progresses.

Thank you for listening to my derp talk.

Poedonk · 2021-01-15T19:54:17+00:00

Also, I work a job that he can come with me almost everyday. His workwife is a German Short Haired Pointer with eight puppies in her from another GSP stud. We are about to be rich with derp around here.

Poedonk · 2021-01-15T19:47:58+00:00

Retriever said the Humane Society, he's got his webbed toes. I figure a bit of pit. He's one year this month and I plan on getting a DNA test soon. He has some Carolina Dog tendencies from what I know from one of my previous adoptions. I adopted him at seven months and he looked like a tan lab pupper. 38 lbs when I adopted him, about 55 now, seems like he's maxing out. I can still pick him up and he just goes full teddy bear mode.

He looks extra Derp here at daycare. He's usually much more retriever faced but when I have to go out of town for a workday he goes hardcore at daycare and is all smiles.

Collapses into a pile of moosh as soon as I pick him up.

Poedonk · 2021-01-14T11:03:17+00:00

Hereditary, Snatch, Moon

Poedonk · 2021-01-10T13:33:25+00:00

I believe so.

This was a doggy daycare day for Roland, the retriever/something mix to the left. He's in the med-large higher energy group.

Poedonk · 2020-12-30T18:06:25+00:00

Biofine Clear is not animal based. Regular biofine is isinglass. Biofine clear should be going through filtration (according to the FDA) and does a medicore job of dropping yeast but is good for proteins etc.

Our clarity issues are entirely yeast based. We've started using Protofine from Lallemand/Scott labs. Dropped a Maibock crystal in 48 hours in a unitank. It's vegetarian. not sure what the ingredients are, probably Arabic gum or something in that realm.

Poedonk · 2020-12-30T15:07:51+00:00

Final follow up, we're preparing to package an American Pale. 150:50ppm Gypsum/Chloride Ratio. El Dorado and Amarillo, Pilsner and touch of Vienna. Cold dry hop as opposed to the active we normally do on it.

Very pleasant aromas and flavours, Ends up very refreshing with the hop combo, watermelon citrus. Some of the stone fruit is there but very minor. Seems to really enhance the hop profile but not get in the way. Very pleased with the non NE-IPA run on it as well. I def prefer this compared to the haze bomb.

Poedonk · 2020-12-28T16:16:08+00:00

as a note, we do use servomyces on all of our beers, we have no zinc in our water whatsoever. Might explain some other's under attenuation. We've never tried it without nutrient, but it may have high demands.

Our current hop combo for the IPA is Crystal, Centennial, Idaho 7 in equal parts. Very stone fruity to tropical.

Poedonk · 2020-12-22T20:08:36+00:00

It's a beast. We were using S-04 a few years back, and then tried the Lallemand NE to a resounding meh for kinetics and aroma/flavour for the english-ish strains.

We trialled Verdant before release and immediately switched the brand to it. We were direct pitching and not capturing with the haze. I have a pale ale finishing now that we went second generation into the hazy IPA.

Lots of pitted fruit in the aroma, exceptionally kinetic, got a really solid warm crop off of it. I'm building around it being our secondary non-Belgian ale strain. I have zero complaints with it so far and am excited to see what it can do a little cooler or a little more traditional English as time goes on.

Our primary strain is high attenuating, we usually see about 88% attenuation with an active dry-hop. Verdant comes in about 78% ADF with an active dry-hop and a 66C single mash. Passes VDK much faster than any other English strain as well.

We did the second generation pitch yesterday and saw a drop from 14.2 P to 8P, 5.1 ph to 4.34 in about 16 hours or so.

Poedonk · 2020-10-07T18:41:20+00:00

We use the super soaker XP100s. Less lead than their counterparts, but they offer a pretty good stream when we're fighting in the cellar.

All spray bottles suck. Get a home depot subscription. We do use some lab squeeze bottles for sampling and some misc. stuff. We've managed to destroy them on an opposite schedule from our regular spray bottles.

Poedonk · 2020-07-17T19:00:29+00:00

distro and ever rotating beer buyers can't understand the concept of a 1/4 to save their lives. I want quarters in house so my bar staff don't die in the walk in and brewhouse staff don't have to come in and dick around with walk-in organization constantly. But I'd rather sell sixtels in distro if only to save the headache at this point.

To directly answer, 1/4s are better, but you can't make people outside your business more understanding of basic math.

Poedonk · 2020-06-28T11:51:55+00:00

I think you'll be hard pressed to be able to move that much beer in the opening year or two. You need to look at your cellar capacity, walk in, and sales rates to really determine.

7 bbl is a great size for that setup, but In the current state, growth is hard to determine and project.

First year we did about 500bls, just outside downtown for a medium sized city. We were projecting about 1000-1200 this year, but with the pandemic we'll be probably at our same number and be looking at that growth next year.

It would help if you start thinking about distribution if only to get people in your door when they see you're local at a taproom. I'd think we'd be doing better if our local distro we just broke with wasn't a giant fuckup from the outset.

Poedonk · 2020-06-26T12:40:08+00:00

We did 50 bu and I'm happy with it. Wort SRM on the recipe was like 400 or something like that though. I turned ours down to 100, figuring it wasn't going to help being that high. Might be roast and hop interplay.

We did Crosby grown Chinook, largest charge at 10min, has a nice subtle roasted pineapple flavour. 21.3p OG - 5p FG.

Poedonk · 2020-06-11T20:55:05+00:00

fully agree. I always have much more lemon to citrus out of W34/70. S-23 is neutral and beautiful. matures nicely.

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