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Date: 30 Jul 2006 17:55:17
From: Rick Knight
Subject: First AG, has very sweet taste.
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I just racked my first AG to secondary, after 1 week in primary. The
krausen has fallen and the gravity is at 1.010 and has been since
Thursday, SG was 1.064. I tasted the contents of the test jar and boy is
it sweet. The recipe is an Irish Red Ale and called for 11 pounds of
grain. My efficiency, according to ProMash, is 82%, but I wasn't expecting
so much sweet taste. I plan to leave it in secondary for 2 weeks and then
bottle half of it and keg the other half. Any chance the sweetness will
fade or soften in the secondary? Any idea why it is so sweet?
Thanks,
Rick Knight
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Date: 30 Jul 2006 13:01:18
From: Karl S
Subject: Re: Moldy malted wheat?
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Ric wrote:
> Unless it's ergot - from which he might 'enjoy' some lysergic acid!
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>>Maybe what you're dealing with is just root hairs. One function of the
>>root is absorbtion and that occurs in the root hairs.
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>>I would taste one kernal; the mold taste would be very noticeable and
>>nothing esle growing there will hurt you unless you used barnyard
>>fertilizer to enhance germination. :-)
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>>Have a good brew,
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>>Peter
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Sorry if this is off-topic. I've just heard so many fairy-tales
regarding ergot that I felt I should toss this in. Ergot is not an
otherwise harmless "trip" drug that gives people hallucinations, it is a
deadly toxin that causes hallucinations during the last stages of its
progress in killing a person.
Ergot does not look like the fuzzy mold growing on stuff in the
refrigerator. It looks like an oversized kernal of grain, and is usually
found growing in mature heads of rye. Ergot poisoning causes extreme
constriction of blood vessels throughout the body, causing convulsions,
nausea, gangrene from loss of blood flow to the extremities, and mental
effects from loss of blood flow to the brain combined with the effects
of lysergic acid, one of the substances from which LSD is synthesized.
OK, about the fuzz on those root? If it washes off under running water
it might be mildew. If it looks like tiny individual hairs growing from
the main root and doesn't wash off, it's probably just root hairs.
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