I’ve been saving different steps and single infusion Pils and comparing them recently. As I said earlier, one thing that’s trending is the body and foam retention and foam density. Interesting is that single infusion 148f for 90 min and the step at 30-45 min at 144F and 45min at 158f as Compared to step of 60min st 143-144f and 60mins at 163f are thinner in mouthfeel and noticeably thinner foam and shorter foam retention time. The single infusion is FG of 1.008, the shorter step 30-45/45 is 1.012, and the 60/60 step is 1.008. The higher gravity beers actually have thinner mouthfeel then the 1.008 60/60 step…this is very interesting to me.
That’s really interesting. It makes me wonder if anyone has ever graphed these time/temp combos against the “commonly accepted” understanding of beta and alpha activity curves. I’m still naive enough to think that while this is really complex, you might eventually be able to map a pattern with a fixed grainbill (from the same lots) and different time/temp curves. Anyone ever seen anything like that? Am I being really stupid and overlooking 20 other things that would make this kind of data irrelevant?