Kellerbier

[leedsbrew]

I've got a tube of WLP920 Old Bavarian Lager. It's part of the Platinum series from Nov - Dec 2010. I'm going to split it for use though out the year. The first recipe I fancy doing with it is for a Kellerbier CLICKY


I came up with

Fermentables
Ingredient Amount % MCU When
UK Lager Malt 2.763 kg 50.0 % 2.0 In Mash/Steeped
UK Munich Malt 2.487 kg 45.0 % 4.9 In Mash/Steeped
German CaraMunich III 0.276 kg 5.0 % 5.5 In Mash/Steeped


Hops
Variety Alpha Amount IBU Form When
German Tettnang 4.5 % 55 g 31.8 Loose Whole Hops All Of Boil
German Tettnang 4.5 % 45 g 0.0 Loose Whole Hops At turn off


Yeast
White Labs WLP920-Old Bavarian Lager


Any comments suggestions lads?

LB

[leedsbrew]

guess that's a no then!

[dave-o]

Well, it looks lovely - not that that's really any help to you!

[HighHops]

Looks great LB!

I did an Oktoberfest in November with a similar recipe; 2Kg Pilsner, 2Kg Vienna and 1Kg Munich with 5% Carared.
It turned out a beauty, but the colour was much deeper than your clicky. It was more like a tizer colour. Cracking pint though! Just savouring the last few bottles.

Never used WLP920. Let us know how it turns out.

[leedsbrew]

Nice one HH! I've not used carared yet! I'm looking forward to the 920, doesn't seem to be too much info on the WL website though!

[Zapp Brannigan]

I was thinking of doing a Kellerbier later this year. I am toying with the idea of a Dampfbier first, maybe in a couple of weeks time, to coincide with the latter part of the lagering for my Helles (providing 2 FVs will go into my fridge).

[TheMumbler]

lancsSteve has a load of german lager done with 920, we had a whole crazy day of decoction. I haven't managed to snag a sample but he may should able to tell you more about the flavour it imparts.

[leedsbrew]

thanks for the heads up TM! I've asked him about it! Looking forward to using it! Are you going to be at the NCBA Lancaster meet in Oct? I didn't know about it till Steve told me!

[TheMumbler]

thanks for the heads up TM! I've asked him about it! Looking forward to using it! Are you going to be at the NCBA Lancaster meet in Oct? I didn't know about it till Steve told me!

I will unless unforseen circumstances take me away from home. I'm not sure that it is totally confirmed yet. I think we are in the fact finding and reporting back phase and Steve has been doing all the leg work on that. The members at the Heald Green meet seemed up for it, so I'm optimistic that it will happen.

[EoinMag]

I had a case of Zwickl recently over from Germany, it was pretty fresh when I got my hands on it, I have to say I'm not overly impressed with Kellerbier/Zwickl bier. If you like the style then go for it, I'm sure it'll be better when it reallly is direct from the "zwickl", are you going to bottle or keg? Traditional would be to put it in a pressure barrel and serve it before it settles or matures in any way.

[leedsbrew]

I've never had a commercial example i just ready the info on the style and thought it would be a good way of a: getting a batch ready to drink quick, and b: by brewing a 20L batch I can grow up enough yeast for a 60L batch of lager to lager properly!

I'm probably going to bottle it to be honest as the only pressure barrel I have is crap! I'll leave it a week after primary, I want it to still be slightly turbid but not pea soup, and also a week cold conditioning in the fv should drop out enought yeast to harvest for a big batch! Ill bottle without priming sugar as there should still be an appropriate amount of carbonation in solution!