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  • Brewed one day earlier, the beer already has a thick, lacey cap of foam, called krausen, covering its entire surface.

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  • Reinheitsgebot forbids the use of corn sugar or other adjuncts, so stick to malt extract if bottling, or krausen.

    SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998

  • Allow the beer to expel krausen for 2 to 3 hours, to let some residual proteins and hops resins be expelled.

    SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998

  • When using closed fermentation, rack the beer off of the flocculated yeast when the krausen stops flowing out of the blow-off hose.

    SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998

  • Reinheitsgebot forbids the use of corn sugar or other adjuncts, so stick to malt extract if bottling, or krausen.

    SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998

  • Allow the beer to expel krausen for 2 to 3 hours, to let some residual proteins and hops resins be expelled.

    SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998

  • When using closed fermentation, rack the beer off of the flocculated yeast when the krausen stops flowing out of the blow-off hose.

    SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998

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