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Author:

Phillip Davis

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.034

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 70 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/4/2017 8:53 PM

Notes: 11/4/2017- my guess is that this beer is going to be fairly astringent and not an easy drinker: the amount of blk patent and the dryness, accentuated with the wheat character, along with the bitterness at 30+ IBU's, and the dryness from the sheer amount of attenuation is going to make this an unbalanced beer. Although I hope I'm wrong. I wanted to bring out more roast character from the last beer I had with a little bit more of a dryness. However, I didn't have the 0.5 lb of carafa II i wanted this time.

11/18/17- it is a little astringent but more from the hops than the blk patent. I would bring the 10 minute hop boil to only add 10 IBU's as the nugget hops actually work pretty well; maybe even 10 IBU's around 5 minute tell flameout. I would go 3/4-1 pound of roasted barley, 1/2 pound of carafa II and around 5-8 ounces of blk patent. Maybe try a split batch with a neutral yeast. We'll see when it's under carbonation what it will do though. 1.010. If I change mind about this beer after being on carbonation for a few days, it might be nice to repeat and use two different neutral yeast strains.

Author:

RustyBarrelHomebrewing

Boil Size: 11 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 48

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/10/2022 8:43 PM

Notes: 9162022 brew day last night awful eff new mm3 maybe to blame but did entire mash in the g40 that also maybe to blame. Prob needed to collect more wort. Boiled total 2 hours to try to boost grav and came out with only 9 gals. Anyway this will be lighter than intended but probable ok.
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9/10/22
this recipep pretty universally people said was too sweet. lets try to dry it out. try to knock down the OG and prob want to mash as low and long as possible. maybe 149 for at least 60-75 mins. last brew was over 6%abv lets go for like 5,7=6.0

for water i am diluting tap with RO and it pretty much matches pilsen light lager profile with no adjustments so lets go with that. there is also a munich profile which might also be more fitting but it said for marzen and maibock, darker maltier versions so lets just try this.
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6/26/22
plunder contest judges scored it 28 and said it was too sweet, which i can kind of get. we shall see what NHC said. need to check FG from notebook. it is delicious but also could probably be crisper and more conduscive to festival drinking, would also like it to be a little more yellow. consider scaling the malt bill down just a little.
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4/10/22

scaling down to 5.5 gallons, rounding off grain amounts. gonna run it with regular tap water as i did before!

adjusted hops slightly for even amounts and to fall within middle of the ibu range

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1/18/2022
setting up for winter/spring 2022 hopefully submission to NHC.

adjusting for equipment and volumes for G40. adjusting abv a little lower per guidelines.

removing 2row.

consider dropping to 1.0 qt/lb to fit in G40. will need to sparge with 8 gallons...

NEED TO do water profile for this.

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~2021
rebrewed this for 2021. did not enter any contests or even bottle/can any. was on draft in the garage for several delicious months.

did not take any notes for the 2021 batch so i assume i pretty much brewed it the same.

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11/15/2020
won gold medal malty european lagers category in 2020 JRHB Dominion Cup.
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8/27/20
brewed last night. mostly went well. started with 12.5 gallons wort as planned but it easily boiled down to about 10-10.5 gallons. could collect more wort next time or boil softer. first gravity reading was 1.070 and i was at about 8 or 8.5 gallons after trub filtered out. topped up with tap water. chilled overnight in ferm chamber and pitched in the morning.

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8/26/20
brew day. tried to mess with water calculations a little. not really sure what to use for festbier/oktoberfest. playing with balanced profile. ran into the HCO chalk issue again, not sure how to fix. looks like i could make it work with "light colored and malty" profile. going to need 16 or more gallons mash/sparge water, might just run it with tap.

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8/21/2020
i think i am going to go for it with this thing. today adding some acidulated malt based on henrico guess profile to hit pH, hopefully i will remember to take a reading.
todo :
* what to do about head retention?
** adding .75lb carafoam for foam and head retention
*** https://beerandbrewing.com/d-lite-festbier-recipe/
* how much yeast?
** according to yeast calculator (depending on the mfg date) i need 4 packs plus a 4L 1.050 starter, pound and half of DME decanting, etc.. yikes! yeast alone would be like $35.
** alternatively, i have a lot of 34/70 from two batches that i could use...
** brulosophy compared german bock lager yeast with 34/70 and eventually could barely tell difference :
*** http://brulosophy.com/2016/07/21/yeast-comparison-saflager-w-3470-vs-wlp833-german-bock-lager-exbeeriment-results/
** im learning that 34/70 is equiv to WY2124 and WLP830 some say the white labs come out different.
** i think i might just keg the two lagers i have in chamber and rack the 10gal batch on top of the cakes...? or maybe half cakes? after some reading, seems about right. some say only 1/4 cake. at end of fermentation slurry contains about 6x cells. that is 600 billion per 5 gal batch. i need 717 billion for 10 gallons, so 358 billion per 5 gal bucket, divided by 600 = 0.58 so i need 58% of each of the yeast cakes.

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2/4/2020
todo :
* consider some crystal malt - no head retention...possibly some light munich

festbier flavors developed nicely however the beer was way too malty sweet probably because it was up over 7%abv. modifiying recipe down to 5.5% abv.

breakdown on previous recipe formulation :
* i kind of customized a lot. the original aha recipe is only remotely close. but it was designed for 5.8%. i probably just aimed higher than i should have and came out even higher than planned.
* hop adjustments - reduced the hop contribution a little bit to land in the middle of the IBU range but also adjustments to bump up the BU/GU ratio (0.38 previously, currently its at 0.48)
* i got to 1.010 with 85% attenuation. for the updated recipe this attenuation results in 1.007. id considered doing some crystal malt, but lets just do a 30 minute mash and see what that does.

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1/22/2020
just went into cold crash after 9 days at diacetyl based off of beer & brewing article. other places im seeing say only 2 days is needed. would prob benefit for more time in cold crash (if time is of essence). not sure if it hurts to have it at rest temp for longer tho.
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12/19/2019
i think i am going to retry this to have ready feb 1. took a pound off the grain bill to lower the abv to more standard level.

for fermentation and diacetyl rest strategy :
we are going out of town in a couple days so if i get this brew done before i leave, i will probably just let it go for 6 or 8 days at 50 then slowly raise it up to 55 when i get back. keep it there for another 3 days then cold crash until feb.

alternatively beer and brewing suggests something like this :
* 50deg for first 48 hours
* raise one degree each day for 10 days
* on day 11, allow temp to free rise to (warmest temp in brewery, but lets just say 70)
* 9 days later start the cold crash

i was considering cold crashing for only a couple days then moving to keg. ive read other places tho that it can benefit from sitting on that yeast cake all that time. on the other hand it would be nice to get it into a closed safe clean keg....???idk

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update 10/20/19
this beer is way off. i thought it was too malty sweet but i think it is actually diacetyl (or possibly DMS but diacetyl would make more sense) - i pitched the wort on top of oktoberfest yeast cake that had been sitting (in a covered bucket in cold ferm chamber, but...) for several days, maybe even a week. also i went away in the middle of fermentation and wasnt able to ease it up to diacetyl rest temperature properly accordinig to the schedule written out below. need to retry this with 1) proper fermentation schedule 2) fresh or uncontaminated yeast 3) try the original recipe? i think with no malt changes on my system it will still come out at 6%
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update 10/7/19
ugh looks like this will accidentally come out at 8%. fermented down farther than the average for this yeast. (avg 75% shouldve been 1.018 but its 1.011 at 85%) (i did pitch right onto the cake from oktoberfest so shouldve been a lot of cells). i brewed this first on a double brew day so the mash was sitting for the full 60 if not longer. i was actually away at gabf so didnt do the exact procedure below, but rather rest the chamber for on the morning of day 4 before i left town. on the morning of day 7 i measure 1.011 and turned the chamber back down to 35. consider diluting before kegging?
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basically took the recipe word for word. 90 minute boil because of the pilsner malt, will utilize that time for more IBUs with less hops via FWH. https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/pickelhaube-festbier/

for diacetyl rest, copied from virginia lager recipe :
going to do byo fast ferment approach janFeb2017. reread but start at 44-50 let fermentation go 50% then (remove the probe from the fermentor let it reach ambient temp then...?) raise temp 5 degrees every 12 hours til you get to 65-68. once you get 100% you can crank down to lager temp (<40) for 3-5 days then you done. this will take care of diacetyl rest and apparently gets the lager completely done in 2-3 weeks.

sources :
* https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/pickelhaube-festbier/
* https://beerandbrewing.com/make-your-best-oktoberfest/

Author:

Bonger

Boil Size: 7.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.046

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 1.75

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 5/17/2022 1:04 AM

Notes:

Author:

The Stronk Chonk

Boil Size: 30 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 21 ° C

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 10 psi

Creation Date: 8/22/2021 9:17 AM

Notes:

Author:

Stray Brewing

Boil Size: 3.51 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 69 ° F

Priming Method: dextrose

Priming Amount: 2.6 oz

Creation Date: 4/11/2021 1:29 PM

Notes:

Author:

Antmaniac

Boil Size: 2 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.135

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: dme

Priming Amount: 3.5

Creation Date: 4/3/2021 8:07 PM

Notes: Used 280oz (14 imperial pints) of water for steeping. Lost a bit of crystal so down to 1 lb and 7 oz vs target if 1.5 lbs. steeped for 20 minutes but went a bit high at 175 degrees so turned off heat for last 10 minutes. Added 2 oz cascade to the boil to hit IBU target. My hops were lower alpha than target Added almost 5 lbs LME to the boil by mistake which meant that my wort concentration was a bit high. This will lower the alpha isometrization and slightly reduce bitterness.

After 2 weeks in barrel first sample was tasty but not quite like Manny’s. More like a hoppy ESB. Malt was a little strong so maybe use crystal 40. Hops were good. Strong yeast presence and lots of carbonation.

After 4 weeks there was still really good carbonation. Color was mid-brown, and while easily drunk it's not like any recognizable style - maybe part ESB, part pale ale, part something yeasty!

Author:

wilkinga

Boil Size: 21 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.041

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/21/2020 1:00 PM

Notes:

Author:

tbridge

Boil Size: 6.9 Gallons

Boil Time: 45

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: 11.73 psi

Creation Date: 3/16/2020 8:50 PM

Notes:

Author:

Chaos home brewing

Boil Size: 6.75 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 65

Mash Thickness: 1.25

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: N/A

Priming Method: Kegging

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 9/7/2018 5:01 PM

Notes: nutty, tropical, and grapefruit flavors

Author:

Kendomondo

Boil Size: 29 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: 2.7

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/4/2018 5:57 PM

Notes:

Author:

krisco1313

Boil Size: 7 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.042

Efficiency: 35

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Extract

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 65 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 11/10/2014 6:45 PM

Notes:

Author:

atoughram

Boil Size: 12.5 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.047

Efficiency: 73

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.35

Primary Temp: 67 ° F

Priming Method: Sucrose

Priming Amount: 2.5oz

Creation Date: 5/26/2017 11:56 PM

Notes:

Author:

Mikeo102

Boil Size: 32 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.037

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 19 ° C

Priming Method: co2

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 4/21/2017 1:10 PM

Notes:

Author:

emsroth

Boil Size: 8 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.034

Efficiency: 80

Mash Thickness: 1.5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 66 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/27/2017 2:31 PM

Notes:

Author:

Menzel/Kaz Brewing

Boil Size: 4 Gallons

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.026

Efficiency: 70

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: BIAB

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 66 ° F

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 2/3/2017 2:52 AM

Notes: With or without spices? Also, I may consider reducing the bittering hops.
Adding unrefined sugar will result in a drier beer with a lighter mouth-feel.
Yeast is certainly most important here, 65-66F fermentation is ideal.

Author:

Torgeir Hovden

Boil Size: 33 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.05

Efficiency: 71

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: White Sugar

Priming Amount: 150g

Creation Date: 9/5/2016 8:33 PM

Notes:

Author:

Bernd

Boil Size: 61 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.044

Efficiency: 82

Mash Thickness: 5

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: N/A

Primary Temp: 20 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 7/1/2016 8:33 AM

Notes: or 3068 wenn moeglich yeast
FG 1.012
schmeckt sehr waessrig...
naechste mal hoehere OG

Author:

BennieD

Boil Size: 55 Litres

Boil Time: 90

Boil Gravity: 1.051

Efficiency: 85

Mash Thickness: 3

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.75

Primary Temp: 18 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 10/27/2015 6:51 PM

Notes:

Author:

Smidt & Storengen

Boil Size: 20 Litres

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.058

Efficiency: 60

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: Partial Mash

Pitch Rate: 1.0

Primary Temp: 21 ° C

Priming Method: N/A

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 8/13/2015 8:50 AM

Notes:

Author:

Boil Size: 6 Gallons

Boil Time: 60

Boil Gravity: 1.048

Efficiency: 75

Mash Thickness: N/A

Sugar Scale: Specific Gravity

Brew Method: All Grain

Pitch Rate: 0.5

Primary Temp: 68 ° F

Priming Method: keg

Priming Amount: N/A

Creation Date: 1/27/2015 12:27 PM

Notes: Used a rolling pin to crush grains further.
The mash ended up staying above 160. faulty thermometer.
boil went according to plan.
ended up with 4 gal at 1058.
did not add water to get full 5 gallons.
Tasted very grassy preboil.
used yeast from Icantbelieveitsbeer recipe.