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Lager Pitching Temperatures
I would like to add my thanks to you for your generous contributions, and to the previous posters for their thoughtful questions. From previous discussions on the HBD and a number of brewing texts, there appears to be two schools of thought regarding lager yeast pitching temperatures.
Lambic and Lightstruck
Dr. Cone asked: "I am curious why are you interested in a procedure for rapidly increasing the cell density of Brett? Lambic beer?"
Maximum Strength
Recently a reader asked me to determine the alcohol content of a barley wine of his (and a very fine one it was too) which his calculations showed should have an ABV of about 23.8% using the Balling formula. The OG was about 43P and TE came in at 9.58P (lower than his estimate), which actually implies almost 26% again using the Balling formula.