Averagely Perfect American Brown Ale - Poll #2 - Final Gravity

I voted 1.015. Should give the sweet and feel I like in a brown without being too thin.

 

Perhaps apparent attenuation should have been voted on first. The attenuations as seen within the voting choices presented to us via this poll seem almost lager yeast high to me.

 

I'm afraid that using 1056 I will surpass these attenuation predictions.

 

I voted 12. That is 78% attenuation. Well within reach. I did not realize we voted on yeast yet.

I would say the water profile is more important but again getting ahead of ourselves.

Also, as of this post the data curve is pretty interesting if you plot gravity on x and votes on y. Looks like a wedding night dick after you cross the threshold.

Sorry mods.

 

I also voted for 1.012. I changed it from an earlier 1.013 vote.

 

Who said anything about using 1056?

 

Nobody!

 

Since it's an American brown ale I simply assumed a neutral American yeast.

 

I'm hoping for West Yorkshire.

 

Seems a bit premature to be worried about this. We haven't tried to address the various dials that influence attenuation. Yeast selection is just one of them.

 

If this heads in a hoppy direction I’d like to see WLP028 as a yeast option. You can hop the heck out of it you want but it leaves plenty of malt behind. Very versatile and I think a strong candidate for a brown, hoppy or not.

 

Just jumped on the 1.014 bandwagon. 1.012 seems to dry for me

 

Changed my vote to 1.017 from 1.015 in the hopes to skew the results towards 1.014-15

 

So, you know, not a big deal, but I do think the process works better if people vote their true preferences. (This doesn't apply to a plurality-wins poll, where strategic voting is baked into the cake.) First, what is VikeMan supposed to do with a vote like this? It amounts to making an especially emphatic vote, one that counts more than other votes. If the scale went high enough, and VikeMan took the votes at face value, then the last person to vote could effectively cast the only vote that matters, by voting arbitrarily high. (I guess there's a limit to how far down the last voter could push the results.) Of course VikeMan might respond by excluding outliers, but that's a little unfair to true outliers (that is, people who are voting extreme values because of a sincere desire to implement then). I guess in a sense if you're going to do it, it helps to say so in the thread so VikeMan knows what he's dealing with.

Second, it risks an arms race where the people who prefer 1.012 respond by lowering their votes to balance it out. Then you could get a false bimodal pattern where people are voting extreme values even though the actual disputed territory is only a few gravity points.

(Any resemblance to the U.S. political system is purely coincidental.)

So anyway I think it's probably better on the whole if people vote their true preferences and bow to the will of the majority (again, excluding plurality-wins polls).

 

Or you can just vote in Maine where they made sure second place will win...

 

1.014

 

Well, it's looking pretty bimodal right now, with 2 points separating the modes. I'm skeptical that I would notice a difference.