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Knocked this simple lager out last night

3.8 Kg lager malt
0.4 Kg Carahelles
0.4 Kg maize

65 C for 1 hr mash

14g of magnums (13 %) at 60 min
14g of Hallertau aroma (8 %) at 30 min
20g of Hallertau aroma (8 5) at 10 min

Its chilling in the fermenting fridge at the mo and i'll be putting a 3L starter of czech budjvoice yeast in it when i get home
I Will let it come back up to 10 C for the fermentation.

Magnums? Never tried what are they like?
Do you have a hop library to go with your extensive yeast collection too




..... magnums ... hmmm I have opened up the chocolate debate again, haven't I? I can just see the ice cream comments coming out now 8-|

Just noticed the bottom line of your sig MB. Very good.

Might do a Forest Ale. It'll seem to bubble along nicely and then go a bit flat

Madbrewer wrote:Magnums? Never tried what are they like?
Do you have a hop library to go with your extensive yeast collection too




..... magnums ... hmmm I have opened up the chocolate debate again, haven't I? I can just see the ice cream comments coming out now 8-|

Well they are the main bittering hop in SNPA so that might give you an idea of how they taste, nice clean bitterness that seems to work well with other hops.
I only have maybe another 15g of them left unfortunately, that'll go towards making a SNPA like beer, after that i don't know where im going to get anymore

andyp wrote:Just noticed the bottom line of your sig MB. Very good.

Yeah I was thinking it sounded quite unsporting, that was until we played them and they turned us over. Not unhappy we got beat, but unhappy as they really didn't deserve it. The difficulty is deciding how many points they'll finish with and trying to get an OG to match that. As it has to be ready in time It's going to be a points for point guesstimate I am afraid.