Festbier #1
12 L Batch Size
1,5 kg Barke Pilsner
1,2 kg Barke Vienna
150 g Melanoiden
17 g Mittelfruh 4,7% (60 min)
Brewed with sulfited water to remove chlorine/chloramines. Mashed in with 9 L of 74 C water to mash this beer at 67 C, then added water to mash out. Batch sparged once. Total water volume was 17 L for 16 L total runnings. Boiled it for an hour with a single hop addition. Poured into sanitized 19 L keg fermentor and sealed on CO2 to prevent negative pressure from damaging the keg. Left it overnight before putting it in the fridge to chill to 12 C.
Fermented it 4 days at 12 C, before removing it to ambient and kegging at a week. Drank a decent amount of it off the tap. Contains a nice malty backbone, low hop presence, with very good drinkability. Still needs some time to clear so I bottled the remainder off with a beer gun and put it in the cellar (12 C) to age.
Brewed on 07.01.2017