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This is a technique developed by old style European brewers for brewing lager beers. Mostly used on undermodified malts that can't fully convert the starches to sugar. Boiling the grains for a short time, 10 mins. will break down molecules and make them more convertable into sugars for the yeast to eat. Raising your effiency. It will also give the beer slightly more color, and a deeper malt flavor, creating a compound called melonoidin. Think of searing a steak on a grill.


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==Notes==
This is a technique developed by old style European brewers for brewing lager beers. Mostly used on undermodified malts that can't fully convert the starches to sugar. Boiling the grains for a short time, 10 mins. will break down molecules and make them more convertable into sugars for the yeast to eat. Raising your effiency. It will also give the beer slightly more color, and a deeper malt flavor, creating a compound called melonoidin. Think of searing a steak on a grill.

Revision as of 17:06, 15 January 2007

Decoction is a way to raise mash temperature by removing a portion of the mash, heating it,and returning it to the mash vessel.

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Notes

This is a technique developed by old style European brewers for brewing lager beers. Mostly used on undermodified malts that can't fully convert the starches to sugar. Boiling the grains for a short time, 10 mins. will break down molecules and make them more convertable into sugars for the yeast to eat. Raising your effiency. It will also give the beer slightly more color, and a deeper malt flavor, creating a compound called melonoidin. Think of searing a steak on a grill.