I've been looking at and trying to brew by recipes inspired by late 1800's-early 1900's porters/stouts and most often the AA is listed as rather low, usually in the low-mid 60's range.
I brewed a porter that finished at 67%AA, mostly because I mashed to end up there abouts as I believed that would be the most accurate.
But then I started thinking, are those the actual FG for the finished for consumption beers or just racking gravities?
I know they aged even normal gravity porters for about 6 months in wood cask before shipping it out to be either put in smaller casks for publicans or bottled, and by that time they definitely knew what Brett was and wich ageing casks were "infected" and wich were not.
I know Imperial stouts were most often secondary fermented with brett and I have a historical one that will be aged on wood and brett, but what about ordinary stouts and porters? Where those "bretted" aswell to dry them out a little?
If I don't want to go through the hassle of brett ageing my ordinary porters, should I try to mash to try to achieve more like mid-medium high 70's levels of AA to achieve a more correct FG or where those high gravities the actual FG?
I brewed a porter that finished at 67%AA, mostly because I mashed to end up there abouts as I believed that would be the most accurate.
But then I started thinking, are those the actual FG for the finished for consumption beers or just racking gravities?
I know they aged even normal gravity porters for about 6 months in wood cask before shipping it out to be either put in smaller casks for publicans or bottled, and by that time they definitely knew what Brett was and wich ageing casks were "infected" and wich were not.
I know Imperial stouts were most often secondary fermented with brett and I have a historical one that will be aged on wood and brett, but what about ordinary stouts and porters? Where those "bretted" aswell to dry them out a little?
If I don't want to go through the hassle of brett ageing my ordinary porters, should I try to mash to try to achieve more like mid-medium high 70's levels of AA to achieve a more correct FG or where those high gravities the actual FG?