BugAC
Well-Known Member
I've been having some temperature issues when attempting decoction and turbid mash's. I have a single infusion system (SS Brewtech's InfuSSion Mast Tun) and i've been doing turbid mash's and partial decoction mash's with the same temperature problems. My latest attempt was a munich helles with a hochkurz mash which is a sort of quick decoction. For a 5 gallon batch, i pulled off 1.1 gallons of the mash and boiled for 10 minutes, then added back to the mash tun. The readout via beersmith, was supposed to come back with a mash temp after the decoction of 160, however my actual temp was 150. I've had the same issues doing multistep turbid mash "decoctions". I can never quite hit all my final mash numbers. Anyone else have these issues and how did you solve them. The beer tastes fine but is drier than i expected. It finished at 1.005 rather than 1.011.