Maggie Marzen - Wednesday, Oct.31, 2018
5.5 Gallons - Lost my malt pipe extension. Used a silicone hose to get by.
One of my favourite styles of beer. Should of brewed this in Sept though. Will next time.
Ingredients
7 lbs. Castle Pils
3 lbs. Weyermann Munich I
2 lbs. Weyermann Vienna
1 lb. Caramunich III
51 g Hallertauer - 4% AA @ 60 min.
20 g Hallertauer - 4% AA @ 20 min
WLP833 German Bock - ( 3 L starter - 51 days old, no step up )
Water Profile - Amber Full
CA - 50
MG - 5
NA - 4
S04 - 54
CI - 66
O.G. - 1.052
F.G. -
% -
SRM - 8.8
BU - 26.7
I need to keep a careful watch on the fermentation and not do a D-rest too early. Day 5 - 7 is fine. Go as long as you can to keep that Pils malt flavour in the beer. That is my theory about quick lager brewing. No odd taste on brew day. We will see.
FERMENTATION NOTES
Brew Day - 68 F in the carboy. A long way to go for 52 F. Cleaning up now.
64 F at 3 pm. May as well pitch the yeast tomorrow morning.
Nov 1st - Pitched yeast @ 8:30 am. Take note: Do not put too much wort
in the carboy as you need room for aeration and liquid yeast.
P.S. The wort smelled great when I added the yeast. My fermcap
did nothing to minimize the foam when I aerated. Either it is done
since it is old, or I am going to get great beer head when it is done...
Nov 2 - Starting to ferment. Nice. Glad it is not 72 hours, but that beer was
the best yet. Checked it at 5 pm and the air lock was full of krausen.
Love the smell, hate the mess. Had to put a blow off hose on and it
kept pushing the bung out. Need a slightly bigger bung.
Nov. 3 - This is acting like an ale. Tons of krausen coming out of the blow off
hose. Fridge seems to be always on.
Nov. 4 - Krausen stopped, but still a steady bubbling. I am going to take a
hydrometer reading soon and if it is 50% done, time for a d - rest.
Nov. 5 - Same. Either do a d rest tonight, and or check the gravity. I should
check the gravity but only once and go with that. Checked gravity
today. 1.030. Not yet, soon though. If it slows down real slow, shut
off fridge, turn wall heater up and give it a good D rest.
Nov. 6 - D rest today. Lots of sulphur coming from air lock.
Nov. 7 - Same but temp now at 68 F. Should be done by the weekend. Very
steady activity in the air lock.
Nov. 9 - Still bubbling, but very, very slow. Fine, I am patient.
Nov. 14 - Sampled. 1.014. No June 23 Storey Steamer taste, but it is a diferent
beer. Very clean with just the right amount of hops for the recipe.
Make it again?
Nov. 29 - Should be carbed up by now. Taste is very clean for the style. This is
not a mega-brewers beer nor should it be. I would buy this for sure. I
have never come close to the taste of this beer, except Beaus Marzen.
I still can't taste any Pils malt taste, but I think it was doing the d
rest too early.
Dec. 1 - Up in Pub room for Storey Xmas. Hope no one likes it as I want it all.
This is all I got until next week. Nope, you all will hate it.
Dec. 2 - They all seemed to like it. It is okay. More of the style for me than the
beer. Pilsners for now on. I didn't taste any Hallertauer hops at all.
FINAL THOUGHTS
A good beer. The srm was near perfect and it surprisingly cleared up great. I think I will brew this a lot in 2019. Need to add more hops later in the boil to get that great noble hop aroma.
Ingredients
7 lbs. Castle Pils
3 lbs. Weyermann Munich I
2 lbs. Weyermann Vienna
1 lb. Caramunich III
51 g Hallertauer - 4% AA @ 60 min.
20 g Hallertauer - 4% AA @ 20 min
WLP833 German Bock - ( 3 L starter - 51 days old, no step up )
Water Profile - Amber Full
CA - 50
MG - 5
NA - 4
S04 - 54
CI - 66
O.G. - 1.052
F.G. -
% -
SRM - 8.8
BU - 26.7
I need to keep a careful watch on the fermentation and not do a D-rest too early. Day 5 - 7 is fine. Go as long as you can to keep that Pils malt flavour in the beer. That is my theory about quick lager brewing. No odd taste on brew day. We will see.
FERMENTATION NOTES
Brew Day - 68 F in the carboy. A long way to go for 52 F. Cleaning up now.
64 F at 3 pm. May as well pitch the yeast tomorrow morning.
Nov 1st - Pitched yeast @ 8:30 am. Take note: Do not put too much wort
in the carboy as you need room for aeration and liquid yeast.
P.S. The wort smelled great when I added the yeast. My fermcap
did nothing to minimize the foam when I aerated. Either it is done
since it is old, or I am going to get great beer head when it is done...
Nov 2 - Starting to ferment. Nice. Glad it is not 72 hours, but that beer was
the best yet. Checked it at 5 pm and the air lock was full of krausen.
Love the smell, hate the mess. Had to put a blow off hose on and it
kept pushing the bung out. Need a slightly bigger bung.
Nov. 3 - This is acting like an ale. Tons of krausen coming out of the blow off
hose. Fridge seems to be always on.
Nov. 4 - Krausen stopped, but still a steady bubbling. I am going to take a
hydrometer reading soon and if it is 50% done, time for a d - rest.
Nov. 5 - Same. Either do a d rest tonight, and or check the gravity. I should
check the gravity but only once and go with that. Checked gravity
today. 1.030. Not yet, soon though. If it slows down real slow, shut
off fridge, turn wall heater up and give it a good D rest.
Nov. 6 - D rest today. Lots of sulphur coming from air lock.
Nov. 7 - Same but temp now at 68 F. Should be done by the weekend. Very
steady activity in the air lock.
Nov. 9 - Still bubbling, but very, very slow. Fine, I am patient.
Nov. 14 - Sampled. 1.014. No June 23 Storey Steamer taste, but it is a diferent
beer. Very clean with just the right amount of hops for the recipe.
Make it again?
Nov. 29 - Should be carbed up by now. Taste is very clean for the style. This is
not a mega-brewers beer nor should it be. I would buy this for sure. I
have never come close to the taste of this beer, except Beaus Marzen.
I still can't taste any Pils malt taste, but I think it was doing the d
rest too early.
Dec. 1 - Up in Pub room for Storey Xmas. Hope no one likes it as I want it all.
This is all I got until next week. Nope, you all will hate it.
Dec. 2 - They all seemed to like it. It is okay. More of the style for me than the
beer. Pilsners for now on. I didn't taste any Hallertauer hops at all.
FINAL THOUGHTS
A good beer. The srm was near perfect and it surprisingly cleared up great. I think I will brew this a lot in 2019. Need to add more hops later in the boil to get that great noble hop aroma.
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