{"id":103,"date":"2007-05-06T15:01:12","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T19:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2007-05-19T21:39:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-20T01:39:06","slug":"blow-off-tube-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Blow off tube removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I removed the blow off tube, and placed an airlock on the carboy. The SG reading was 1.009 @ 72 F (1.010 corrected). The taste has a very hot (alcohol flavor) and is dry.<\/p>\n<p>The flavor can be attributed to the following<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The yeast strain (Wyeast 1028) seems to attenuate very well, and usually produces a dry beer.  As a result the beer is less sweet because the yeast has converted a lot of the sugars into alcohol.<\/li>\n<li>I mashed at much lower temperatures which produces a wort with more fermentable sugars<\/li>\n<li>I used 2 lbs of sugar in the raw. (can contribute a cidery flavor)<\/li>\n<li>I aerated the yeast starter and the wort before I pitched the yeast. This would result in healthier yeast and better attenuation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This one will need to age a bit for the alcohol &#8220;Hottness&#8221; to subside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I removed the blow off tube, and placed an airlock on the carboy. The SG reading was 1.009 @ 72 F (1.010 corrected). The taste has a very hot (alcohol flavor) and is dry. The flavor can be attributed to the following The yeast strain (Wyeast 1028) seems to attenuate very well, and usually produces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strong-bitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}