Beer 6 of 12 for my Skirmish in the Triad run of beers. I’m now beginning to question my sanity 🙂 Half way there and I feel like every night I’m doing something beer related. Or at least that’s what my wife keeps telling me! For NHC this year I have 7 beers planned and i’ll send the best of those and i’m brewing all of those for the skirmish so i can get a dry run in and get feedback and make some adjustments. My first Best of Show was with a Czech Pale Lager so I thought I’d give it’s darker cousin a try. It’s a new style to the BJCP 2015 guidelines and a bit hard to dig up any example recipes. The best I found were in Gordon Strong’s Modern Homebrew Recipes. There are two and after going through the guidelines I picked the one that is similar to U Flek and then messed with it a bit.
Recipe Info
Recipe: czech dark ebiab 1
Style: Czech Dark Lager 3D BJCP 2015
Date: 08-14-2016
|
Recipe |
Guideline Min |
Guideline Max |
|
|
OG |
1.050 |
1.044 |
1.060 |
|
FG |
1.010 |
1.013 |
1.017 |
|
Color |
29.1 |
14.0 |
35.0 |
|
ABV |
5.2 |
4.4 |
5.8 |
|
IBU |
29.0 |
18.0 |
34.0 |
Brewery Info
Efficiency: 70 %
Attenuation: 80 %
Mash Info
Weight: 13.125 Lbs
Thickness: 1.96 Qt per Lb
Deadspace: 2.5 G
Strikewater: 8.93 G
Volume: 9.98 G
Temp: 131.0 F
Boil Info
Kettle Gravity: 1.042
Predicted Mash Run-off: 7.75 G
Target Starting Boil Volume: 7.75 G
Boil Duration: 60 min
Evaporation Rate: 1.25 G per Hour
Final Boil Volume: 6.5 G
Fermentables
|
Weight |
% by Weight |
Name |
Yield |
SRM |
|
6.500 Lb |
50.0 % |
Pilsen (BestMälz) |
78.3 |
1.5 |
|
4.000 Lb |
30.0 % |
Munich (BestMälz) |
76.1 |
7.6 |
|
2.000 Lb |
15.0 % |
Caramunich III (Weyermann) |
73.0 |
56.8 |
|
0.625 Lb |
5.0 % |
Carafa Special III (Weyermann) |
65.0 |
525.5 |
Hops
|
Weight |
Name |
AAU |
Time |
Use |
IBUs |
|
0.7 Oz |
Magnum |
12.0 |
60 mins |
Boil |
26.0 |
|
1.0 Oz |
Saaz |
3.8 |
5 mins |
Boil |
2.0 |
Yeast
|
Amount |
Name |
|
1.000 unit |
Czech Budejovice Lager White Labs WLP802 |
Misc
|
Amount |
Name |
Time |
Use |
|
1.000 tablet |
Whirlfloc Tablet |
15 mins |
Boil |
|
0.500 tsp |
Yeast Nutrient (Wyeast) |
10 mins |
Boil |
Water
Predicted Mash Ph: 5.38
|
Ca |
Mg |
Na |
Cl |
So |
Bicarbonate |
|
|
Water |
7 |
3 |
21 |
11 |
24 |
46 |
|
Mash |
71 |
3 |
21 |
124 |
24 |
46 |
|
Sparge |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Final |
98 |
4 |
29 |
172 |
33 |
64 |
|
Target |
75 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Mash Water
Total Water Treated: 9.000 G
Percent RO / Distlled: 0 %
Water Used: 9.000 G
Mash Water Adjustments
Calcium Chloride: 8.0 g
Sparge Water
Leftover Mash Water Used: Yes
Total Water Treated: 0.000 G
Percent RO / Distlled: 0 %
Water Used: 0.000 G
Sparge Water Adjustments
Notes
Mash
131f 15 mins
147f 30 mins
158f 30 mins
168f 10 mins
8/23/16 1.5L start of WLP800 (they didn’t have 802)
8/25/16 normal brewday but used new colorado brewing system’s hard sided basket. went well. og a hair high. wort does look a bit clearer in the fermenter.
8/26/16 @ 8am thin kreusen and slow bubbling started
8/27/16 thin kreusen and steady bubbling
8/28/16 1/4″ kreusen and steady bubbling
8/29/16 ditto
9/3/16 ~5 sec between bubbles
9/4/16 ditto
9/5/16 ditto
9/8/16 looks done
9/15/16 moved to keg to lager FG 1.016 pH 4.34
tasting really good. nice dark malt character. nice hop character. clean lager. clarity is bad but thats expected. very promising.
10/9/16 gelatin added
10/11/16 racked to serving keg
i really like this beer. i don’t have a good example to compare it to but it is a nice beer. judges seemed to like it at the skirmish in the triad where it placed 2nd.
