1 April Pilsner

[BigEd]

Brewed a Czech pils Sunday morning, my last lager of the season. The malt was Weyermann's Bohemian Pils which is supposed to be made from Czech barley. The wort was super sweet and looked great so I am optomistic about the beer.

Prague Pils
April 1, 2007

Category Pilsner
Subcategory Bohemian Pilsener
Recipe Type All Grain
Batch Size 38 liters (10 US Gallons)
Volume Boiled 45 liters
Mash Efficiency 83 %
Total Grain/Extract 7.72 kg.
Total Hops 227.0 g.


7.5 kg. German 2-row Pils
225 g. Weyermann CaraFoam®
114 g. Saaz (Whole, 3.75 %AA) boiled 60 min.
85 g. Saaz (Whole, 3.75 %AA) boiled 30 min.
28 g. Saaz (Whole, 3.75 %AA) boiled 10 min.
Yeast : White Labs WLP802 Czech Budejovice Lager

Decoction Mash:
20 minutes @ 48C
20 minutes @ 60C
60 minutes @ 66C
10 minutes @ 75C

OG 1.051

[mysterio]

Woah, is that a triple decoction? You are a braver man than I!

I'm just getting ready to do my first lager of the season, because my fridge is outside in the garage and the outside temperature is still below lager primary temps.

Looks like a great recipe - WLP802 is the only lager yeast I use.

[Frothy]

Immense - copied & saved thankyou. I'm intrigued by decoction, do you need a very big mash tun to do it all in Ed'? Carapils & Carafoam are the same thing right?

Frothy

[BigEd]

Immense - copied & saved thankyou. I'm intrigued by decoction, do you need a very big mash tun to do it all in Ed'? Carapils & Carafoam are the same thing right?

Frothy

I use a converted picnic cooler (cool box?) for my mash/lauter tun. It does not have a marked size but I'm guessing it's about 45 litres in capacity. You do, however, need a separate decoction vessel for the boil for which I use a 20 litre stainless steel stockpot. For my usual 10 gallon (38 litre) batch the mash tun has room to spare. I prefer a thick mash for the decoctions and infusions for that matter using a 1qt:1lb water/grain ratio (2L:1Kg). This thick mash takes up less space than a typical thinner infusion mash. If necessary I could probably do another 50% grist for a larger batch or really big beer. The decoction pull fills the stockpot a bit beyond halfway. Yes, CaraFoam is just the Weyermann Co. name for their dextrin malt. Cheers!