Comments on: Hazy Daze Wit – Transfer to Secondary http://www.brewerman.com/2007/08/hazy-daze-wit-transfer-secondary/ Craft beer, Homebrewing, Reviews Fri, 15 May 2009 00:57:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: brewer http://www.brewerman.com/2007/08/hazy-daze-wit-transfer-secondary/comment-page-1/#comment-21637 brewer Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:59:01 +0000 http://www.brewerman.com/2007/08/hazy-daze-wit-transfer-to-secondary/#comment-21637 Yeah ... Not my best beer, but still very drinkable. Just hard to deal with a multi-step mash when you're not able to apply direct heat. Decoction is one of those things that takes practice. I think, with the right mash schedule and a better decoction execution, the small negatives with the final product could be addressed. Don't think there's anything wrong with the recipe. I think, when I brew it next, I'm going to ratchet back the wheat to a 60% barley/40% wheat ratio. May give it a bit less of the bready, viscous characteristics that made it into the final beer and were a bit distracting. The spicing was perhaps just a bit aggressive ... But only a bit. Thought it gave some astringency, but that very well could have come from the decoctions pulling tannins out of the crushed malt hulls / rice hulls that were in the mash. Again, very drinkable. Good tartness, spice flavor, great color, good base beer flavor. Just would have been a hell of a lot easier with a direct heat mash. Yeah … Not my best beer, but still very drinkable. Just hard to deal with a multi-step mash when you’re not able to apply direct heat. Decoction is one of those things that takes practice. I think, with the right mash schedule and a better decoction execution, the small negatives with the final product could be addressed. Don’t think there’s anything wrong with the recipe. I think, when I brew it next, I’m going to ratchet back the wheat to a 60% barley/40% wheat ratio. May give it a bit less of the bready, viscous characteristics that made it into the final beer and were a bit distracting.

The spicing was perhaps just a bit aggressive … But only a bit. Thought it gave some astringency, but that very well could have come from the decoctions pulling tannins out of the crushed malt hulls / rice hulls that were in the mash.

Again, very drinkable. Good tartness, spice flavor, great color, good base beer flavor. Just would have been a hell of a lot easier with a direct heat mash.

]]> By: John http://www.brewerman.com/2007/08/hazy-daze-wit-transfer-secondary/comment-page-1/#comment-21481 John Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:51:01 +0000 http://www.brewerman.com/2007/08/hazy-daze-wit-transfer-to-secondary/#comment-21481 Whatever happened with the Wit? How did it turn out? Whatever happened with the Wit? How did it turn out?

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