Stewart Line Lager - Monday, January 20, 2020
5.5 Gallons
Same water profile, but may change up the hops a little bit, depending on what I have in stock. UCM has closed down for good and I wish I had ordered those 5 lbs. of Chinook hops.
Ingredients
11 lbs. UCM
8 ozs.. Munich I
12 ozs. Carapils
17 g Magnum at 60 min.
28.35 g Hallertauer Hersbrucker at 60 min.
63 g Tettnanger at 30 min.
55 g Tettnanger at 10 min.
28.35 g at 0 min. ( 5 min. after cooling starts )
Escarpment Labs Biergarten ( from over build )
Water Profile - BoPils ( all salts added to the mash )
PH. 5.30
Made a 1 L starter to a 3 L starter which will give me lots of lager yeast but way, way below what the pros use. Good, I am not a pro brewer...
O.G. - 1.054 - 90% Efficiency
F.G. -
% -
SRM - 3.5
BU - 43.3
I have around 5 - 6 days after kegging the previous lager to decide on what level of hops I want to go with for this brew. I can taste it and decide if I want to keep this water profile, or go with Jever boiled which is higher in sulphates. Taste is everything. I have decided to keep the same water profile and try to get 2 brews with the hops I currently have. Quite a can of worms with these hops, but I have enough for 2 batches, including this one. Buy hops in late Feb. Magnum and Tettnanger. I had to
decant the yeast starter into a 1 L mason jar so I can use the 5 L flask for my next starter. Should use my 1 gallon growler after the starter is done and I decanted to a 500 ml mason jar.
BREW DAY NOTES
Once the 60 min. boil was done, chilled for 5 minutes, shut off water, added hop stand hops and waited 10 min. Resume chilling. Wort is green with hops... I thought I would be low on wort as I didn't look good enough at my level in the kettle after sparging. But I did get 5.5 gallons in the carbothough. First runnings were very hazy, like pea soup. I got a ton of hop sludge on the bottom of the robobrew. Looked like an IPA.
FERMENTATION NOTES
Day 1 - Pitched yeast at 8:30 am.
Day 2 - Not much activity. Bubbling every 12 seconds. Hmmm. Hope this over build is going to
work. This is the first one I made. Starting to see some good activity around 9 - 10 am. 50 F.
Day 5 - Still going good. D-rest tomorrow, or Monday depending on activity. Should not go over day
7 though if I want to follow the fast ferment method.
Day 6 - D rest today.
Day 7 - 68 F. Very active bubbling.
Day 8 - Finally slowing down. Will do a slow chill after I see NO activity from the blow off.
Day 12 - D rest over, but some activity. 50 F.
KEGGED ON FEB 9
Added gelatin on Feb. 12. Hopefully the gelatin will take some of the cloying hop taste away. Way too much hops, won't brew this again. Clearing, but very slowly. It is tasting much better as it clears. Keeping the same water profile as I have no alternative profile that I like or have had any success with. Do not give up on this. Definitely will be using my Conical this summer to make this beer. Yeast starter will take 10 days or more to make. Not sure what system to use. May do a double brew day so I can use my Conical in April.
TASTE ON FEB 21
Cleared up on day 11. Carbed up a 2 L bottle. Pretty good, but the carbing up took most of the hop aroma away. Still a clean beer, but not using Pils malt makes a kind of bland beer. It seems to be too bitter for my tastes. However, it is still a very good beer. Will be brewing this all summer with a tweaked recipe. Cleared up nice, took 12 days though. Still okay on Feb. 26. BU are lower a bit, but still a good beer. I still will not brew this again as there is just too much hops used. That is why I am going with a Helles.
Taste on Feb. 26
It was still a good beer. However, the next day the hop flavour and aroma is completely gone. No hop taste at all. So I used 190 grams of hops and a few weeks after kegging they are gone? Hmmm... Something is up. It is still a clean beer. May go with my usual yeast soon, WLP833. I will give this another shot, brew an English bitter and wait until my Helles ages to see if it does it again. I will buy my usual yeast. I do think that using Pils malt will bring lots more flavour to the table than 2 row.
Same water profile, but may change up the hops a little bit, depending on what I have in stock. UCM has closed down for good and I wish I had ordered those 5 lbs. of Chinook hops.
Ingredients
11 lbs. UCM
8 ozs.. Munich I
12 ozs. Carapils
17 g Magnum at 60 min.
28.35 g Hallertauer Hersbrucker at 60 min.
63 g Tettnanger at 30 min.
55 g Tettnanger at 10 min.
28.35 g at 0 min. ( 5 min. after cooling starts )
Escarpment Labs Biergarten ( from over build )
Water Profile - BoPils ( all salts added to the mash )
PH. 5.30
Made a 1 L starter to a 3 L starter which will give me lots of lager yeast but way, way below what the pros use. Good, I am not a pro brewer...
O.G. - 1.054 - 90% Efficiency
F.G. -
% -
SRM - 3.5
BU - 43.3
I have around 5 - 6 days after kegging the previous lager to decide on what level of hops I want to go with for this brew. I can taste it and decide if I want to keep this water profile, or go with Jever boiled which is higher in sulphates. Taste is everything. I have decided to keep the same water profile and try to get 2 brews with the hops I currently have. Quite a can of worms with these hops, but I have enough for 2 batches, including this one. Buy hops in late Feb. Magnum and Tettnanger. I had to
decant the yeast starter into a 1 L mason jar so I can use the 5 L flask for my next starter. Should use my 1 gallon growler after the starter is done and I decanted to a 500 ml mason jar.
BREW DAY NOTES
Once the 60 min. boil was done, chilled for 5 minutes, shut off water, added hop stand hops and waited 10 min. Resume chilling. Wort is green with hops... I thought I would be low on wort as I didn't look good enough at my level in the kettle after sparging. But I did get 5.5 gallons in the carbothough. First runnings were very hazy, like pea soup. I got a ton of hop sludge on the bottom of the robobrew. Looked like an IPA.
FERMENTATION NOTES
Day 1 - Pitched yeast at 8:30 am.
Day 2 - Not much activity. Bubbling every 12 seconds. Hmmm. Hope this over build is going to
work. This is the first one I made. Starting to see some good activity around 9 - 10 am. 50 F.
Day 5 - Still going good. D-rest tomorrow, or Monday depending on activity. Should not go over day
7 though if I want to follow the fast ferment method.
Day 6 - D rest today.
Day 7 - 68 F. Very active bubbling.
Day 8 - Finally slowing down. Will do a slow chill after I see NO activity from the blow off.
Day 12 - D rest over, but some activity. 50 F.
KEGGED ON FEB 9
Added gelatin on Feb. 12. Hopefully the gelatin will take some of the cloying hop taste away. Way too much hops, won't brew this again. Clearing, but very slowly. It is tasting much better as it clears. Keeping the same water profile as I have no alternative profile that I like or have had any success with. Do not give up on this. Definitely will be using my Conical this summer to make this beer. Yeast starter will take 10 days or more to make. Not sure what system to use. May do a double brew day so I can use my Conical in April.
TASTE ON FEB 21
Cleared up on day 11. Carbed up a 2 L bottle. Pretty good, but the carbing up took most of the hop aroma away. Still a clean beer, but not using Pils malt makes a kind of bland beer. It seems to be too bitter for my tastes. However, it is still a very good beer. Will be brewing this all summer with a tweaked recipe. Cleared up nice, took 12 days though. Still okay on Feb. 26. BU are lower a bit, but still a good beer. I still will not brew this again as there is just too much hops used. That is why I am going with a Helles.
Taste on Feb. 26
It was still a good beer. However, the next day the hop flavour and aroma is completely gone. No hop taste at all. So I used 190 grams of hops and a few weeks after kegging they are gone? Hmmm... Something is up. It is still a clean beer. May go with my usual yeast soon, WLP833. I will give this another shot, brew an English bitter and wait until my Helles ages to see if it does it again. I will buy my usual yeast. I do think that using Pils malt will bring lots more flavour to the table than 2 row.
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