Current awesome example has 5.6 mash ph and no extra in boil.
1.032 @ 66c mash was really good
other riff is lowered OG and higher FG (71c mash)
also, 2.5g or 5.g per keg of gypsum
VERY close to perfect for such a small beer
v4? Overshot gravity with lower eff settings (1.029 w/ malto). Lowering base grain from 3kg to 2.5kg. Wort tastes great at 74c mash for 45 mins and had good efficiency too. Backing down flaked barley to .25kg as it's a little husky/grainy early on. Very good three days in. Riff upon riff eliminate 2.5g gypsum in favor of extra CaCL in mash (high chloride in favor of high sulfate)
V5 - Backed down the initial salting 3g & 3g in mash. Backed down flaked from 15 to 7.5% is perfect. Smooth all the way around. Love the keg additions of salt and maltodextrine. Mosaic is clutch. More impressionable than centennial. A 1/2 mosiac / 1/2 simcoe DH sounds great. To take this from hazy IPA territory to slightly more bitey session IPA it needs some boiled hops somewhere.
V6 = salting is perfect both mash and keg wise. Gonna bring down the mash temp slightly to 76c. Voss is great. Bringing down base grain to 1.5kg
V7 = 1.018 is great with 79c 30 minute mash. 2g of table salt per keg is undetectable taste wise but helps with mouth feel. 33c is the max ferment I can muster. Fermentation was done in 12 hours. 60 hours ferment time total. Keg hopped then in the fridge. awesome.
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V2 Fermented at 35c. Keg hopped at 24 hours w/ dry Voss. Fast. Sweet on the nose. Fruity pebbles. Surprisingly dense body for 3.3%. Voss orange is strong. Maybe Voss + another kveik for 10 gallon. .5 oz for hops that accenuate bitterness1 oz for voss
V3 - Subbed in Vienna. Tried Ebbegarden. Lacks voss creamsicle (That's a positive). Centennial is my hop. Went with 2oz FWH but.
Could pull back to 1oz FWH. Full bodied enough. Maybe pull back boil gypsum to 5g? This is reviewing a 4 day beer
V4 - Could pull back to 3.5kg Vienna for even more sessionability + 5g gypsum?
V5 - 8g gypsum in the boil is fine. Prefer Ebbegarden for less oranges esters than voss. Somewhere between 1 and 2 oz for FWH. Back down fermentation down to 30c because I can and pick up smokeyness from high DH temp depending on the day. Will try Ebbegarden vs Framgarden.
V6 - Heat stick sharted out so beer wasn't exactly boiled. Vienna -> MO in this beer. 8g gypsum in the boil is fine. Framgarden is legit. 1.25-1.5 oz FWH is nice too. 67-69c is a nice mash temp. Reducing baking soda by 50% (in glass with some lactic really pulls out the fruityness and sharpens up the body). Next time half XYZ (voss, ebb, fram) and half Olso. Going to try a little dextrose with the high mash to retain body but crisp up the ass end. 1.034 w/ grain conditioning
V7 - 5g gyp, 2.5g of baking soda in the boil. 3oz of DH in the keg. 68-69c mash. From fresh dry Voss, 18 hours DH and 48 hours into fridge!
V8. Going to try and mash slightly lower: 69c. Errored and added 500g of crystal. Is this a good thing? Would like to finish at 1.006ish. Battling between .5 oz and 1oz FWH. What I'm drinking now at 1 oz is pretty awesome (voss? framgarden? not ebbegarden?). With some age, 5oz is the right call. Love the 500g of crystal. Oslo worked out well with some time.
V9: Going .5 oz. 500g of crystal. Oslo/Lutra vs Framgarden. Salting is perfect, body good. DH 18 hours in .
V10: with maltodextrine, extra crystal and flaked barley, need to mash at 66 to get slightly better attenuation. Otherwise, getting VERY close to perfect!
