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The lager-brewing tradition is full of received wisdom and rules of thumb about how long it’s supposed to take to condition a beer. In reality, however, there’s no magic formula.
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“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes” is wisdom as applicable to brewing as it is to any other 13,000-year-old pursuit. There is nobody quite like experienced brewers, however, to help you sort the scientific fact from myths and apocryphal history.
You may have heard this one: Lagers need one week of lagering time per degree Plato. So, a 10°P lager would need 10 weeks, an 18°P bock would need 18 weeks, and so on.
Says who?
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