Averagely Perfect Dubbel - Poll #28 - Fermentation Temperature

-> Poll #27 <- determined that the recommended boil length will be 60 minutes.

This poll will determine the fermentation temperature. When this poll is done, I will look at the data a few different ways to determine the central tendency. It may or may not be as simple as a plurality would indicate. There may or may not be a runoff. It all depends on the data.

For those looking ahead, the next poll(s) will look at water profiles.

This poll will be open for 48 hours.

If you have issues with or suggestions for methodologies used in this project, please send them via beermail. Let's keep the threads themselves on topic to the question at hand and not about how you would have asked the question differently. Lobbying for votes and intelligent discussion of each choice's relative merits is encouraged.

The Averagely Perfect Dubbel Recipe so far...

5 Gallons into the fermenter
Target ABV: 7.0%
OG: 1.065
FG: 1.012
IBUs: 24 (Tinseth)
Yeast: Wyeast 3787 or WLP530
Mash (recommended): 60 Minutes @ 152F
Assumed Mash Efficiency: 70%
Boil Length (recommended): 60 minutes

Grains/Fermentables:
---Belgian Pilsner Malt (86%)
---D-90 Syrup (8%)
---Caramunich (4% Total)
---Special B (2%)

Hops:
60 minutes: Styrian Goldings (Qty to be calculated when I get around to it, 5% AA)
10 minutes: Styrian Goldings (0.5 ounces, 5% AA)

 

For everyone's awareness...to go with steps/ramps/etc. we'll need a majority (i.e. more than 50%) voting for that. Otherwise, 50% or more will have voted for a single temperature. IOW, steps/ramps/etc. encompasses at least as many different possibilities as a single fermentation temp approach does, so a simple plurality won't get it, since the single temp votes are being split among several discrete temps.)

 

Alrighty. Looks like we have some step/ramp polls coming.