{"id":334,"date":"2007-05-13T20:39:37","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T04:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=334"},"modified":"2007-05-13T20:39:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T04:39:37","slug":"lagering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Lagering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I racked the pilsner that Joe &amp; I brewed to the lagering vessel tonight. To avoid oxidization, I filled the carboy with CO<sub>2<\/sub> first, then pushed the beer from secondary to the lagering carboy using CO<sub>2<\/sub> as well. Seemed to work alright, though it&#8217;s sad to see only 4 gallons of the initial 5 make it this far. Maybe if I had dry hopped it in primary instead of secondary, we&#8217;d have both a clearer beer and a tad more available for labor day.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess the lesson I learned from this batch was not to dry hop a lager with loose leaf hops. Pellets would have at least settled out.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, the beer tasted nice and had a nice color, though the turbidity was a little high. Hopefully a month or so lagering will solve some of that.<\/p>\n<p>On the home front, we&#8217;ll be moving to <abbr title=\"North Portland\">NoPo<\/abbr> to a place that has both an ideal garage and an ideal basement for brewing. Just have to choose. Given the lack of good pubs in the area, I may need to brew more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I racked the pilsner that Joe &amp; I brewed to the lagering vessel tonight. To avoid oxidization, I filled the carboy with CO2 first, then pushed the beer from secondary to the lagering carboy using CO2 as well. Seemed to work alright, though it&#8217;s sad to see only 4 gallons of the initial 5 make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=334\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lagering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homebrew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}