Author: wilber

Recipe

Quadro lager – 4 beers in one batch

Post author By wilber
Post date December 15, 2012

15 Dec 2012

Base Pilsner Malt of all 4 beers:

6kg gladfield pils – Mashed at 66 for 90 mins.

Bohemian Pilsener:

150g carapils
150g pilsner malt

Mashed and boiled with 5g saaz
1g saaz 3.6% at 15

Munich Lager:
100g carapils
200g Munich ii
200g pils

Mashed on stove top

Drew off 7L from base
4g flame out
Added Munich mash
1050at 36c

90g saaz 3.6% = 20ibu

150g S33 starter

German pilsener and Bohemian Pilsner
Added 60g Saaz 3.6% for 30 mins

German pilsener

Base Malt only
1050 at 28c

200g of Wyeast 2001 Urquell lagerstarter

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Bohemian Pilsner
1054 og

200g of Wyeast 2001 Urquell lager starter

NZ Standard lager

5L from base.
1070 og – boiled off from Small 5l boil. Added Water to make 1055og

150g S33 starter

Yeast:

Wyeast 2001 Urquell lager
Dated 25 sep 12
Smacked pack at 10 – no action at 2:30
Put into starter to see if goes.
Still slow. Shaked to aerate

S33 – 2nd Gen – July 2012

Started s33 – added to NZ standard

16 Dec 2012 – Pitched starters Day later at 16C

18 Dec 2012 – Lowered temp to 14C

25 Dec 2012
NZ std lager 1024 tastes strange
Boh pils 1040
Ger pils 1018
Munich 1015 tastes strange

26 Dec 2012

took pils up to 22c room temp in garage

Boh pils now 1018

27 Dec 2012
Changed set point to 19 main fridge

3 Jan 2013

Bottled and primed. 300g cane sugar disolved in 300ml water with citric acid. Boiled 15 mins.

5 mls for 750, 3 mls for 500ml

German Pils 1006 fg 4×750 4x500ml
Boh Pils 1006 fg 4×750 3x500ml
NZ std lager 3×750 4x500ml
Munich lager 4×750 7x500ml
One 500ml bottle of random dregs

Let to warm up to room temp to carbonate.

10 feb
Puhoi pilsner
500ml over carbonated, quite hoppy

Uncategorized

Hop growth

Post author By wilber
Post date December 14, 2012

Tags homegrown, Hops

Kegging

Portable co2 gas line

Post author By wilber
Post date December 5, 2012

Here is our portable co2 setup, using a 12oz paintball cylinder with a universal adapter on the top.
The red house is the top up hose, to fill from the 3.5kg co2 tank.

Tags co2, portable

Yeast

Wyeast 3522 Belg Ardennes harvest

Post author By wilber
Post date December 3, 2012

Scooped active yeast from fermenter top

Recipe

Belgian bruin iii

Post author By wilber
Post date December 3, 2012

6.5kg Glad field pils
300 cara hell
300 cara Munich type 3
125 abbey malt
100 carafa type 1

Mashed at 66c
3 c 5l sparge water at 75c

45 min
25g NZ hallertau 7.0%
20g NZ stryian Golding 7.2%
10 min
10g NZ hallertau 7.0%
15g NZ stryian Golding 7.2%
1.split fresh corriander seeds
1.2gm zested orange peel

0 min – late added at 50c
10g NZ stryian Golding 4.4%
4.5g NZ hallertau 7.0%
1.split fresh corriander seeds
1.2gm zested orange peel
2.5g Koppa flock

600g inverted sugar dark caramel
539 sugar jar smashed in micro wave ~ 300g

1060og at 25c 1064 = 5.6%
25l
Aerated with ken wood triblade soup attachment
Wyeast 3522 Belgian Ardennes™
Smacked at 2pm, started in boiled wort.
Fermented at 22c in garage

Plan to split batch and add extra sugar to bring up to 8-10%

Spilt into 10l

15l
Added 400g invert sugar
10dec. Add 260g sugar inverted, neutralised with baking soda.

Pico – added sour
1020 gravity
Added 30ml invert sugar
Now 1022

5 dec
1020 at 20c
Fermenting at 22c

Tags 3522 Belgian Ardennes, Sour

Kegging

Apa finings

Post author By wilber
Post date November 26, 2012

3g Davis gelatine
200g cold tap water
Wait 30 mins

Hops

Growing hops

Post author By wilber
Post date November 26, 2012

Here are last years rhizomes, seem to be quite established. Looks like I need to get longer stakes soon.

Tags homegrown, Hops

Recipe

Bye Bye American Rye

Post author By wilber
Post date November 20, 2012


1kg raw rye from Ellen 
(Breadmaking)
6.5kg gladfield pils

mashed 90 mins at 66
40g  simcoe hops 12.9%

10 min
20g perle 7.5%

0min
13g Amarillo 14g 8.2%
10g perle 7.5%

1052at30c = 1.056 = 6.1%
26L

Airated with ken wooed tri blade soup attachment, foam 5cm high

5g s05 started in boiled wort
Fg 1010
Added 3G in 200ml beer, 50g from other keg finings

Bottled 8 dec 

Pico brew 1.5
On ben's wyeast ringworm first gen
Drew off tall jar, from fermentor put in fridge and discarded top 1/2, leaving trub

Did not start. Added wheat yeast WB-06

Tags Armarillo, Perle, Rye, Simcoe

Recipe

Pilsner Stein

Post author By wilber
Post date September 23, 2012

Pilsner Stein

24 litres
All Grain

1.044_OG→1.010_FG→4.5%_ABV

44 IBU

7.2°L SRM

Yeasts
11 kilograms
S-23 – Saflager S-23 Fermentis (Lager)	11 kilograms

Fermentables
6.48 kilograms
Pilsen 36ppg, 4°L	6 kilograms 93%
Munich (Light) 33ppg, 10°L	0.48 kilograms 7%

Hops
50 grams
Super Alpha 12%, Pellet	50 grams 100%

Miscellaneous
2 grams
koppa Flock Fining	2 grams 100%

Boil
1 hour, 27.44 litres
Super Alpha hops 12%, Pellet	30 grams 60 minutes (+0)
Super Alpha hops 12%, Pellet	10 grams 15 minutes (+45)
koppa Flock Fining	2 grams 15 minutes (+45)
Add wort chiller	15 minutes (+45)
Super Alpha hops 12%, Pellet	10 grams 0 minutes (+60)

Ferment
14 days @ 17°C

Notes:

23 sept 
6 kg glad field pilsner malt
480g light toasted NZ pils

Mashed 90mins at 66c

30g super alpha 12.5%

15min 
10g super alpha 12.5%
2.1g koppa flock

3 min 
10g super alpha 12.5%

300ml first wort, boiled 15mins
added to saflager 15 aug.

1044 og
38ibu

22.5  pool ferment 15c
1010fg
4.5%

Gold new world pils AGWB yearly comp 26.5/30

Pico brew
1.5 l Scullery ferment at 19c/20c
Fermentis s33

Tags Pilsner, S33, Super Alpha