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Lemon Berliner Weisse

272 calories 26.1 g 12 oz
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Beer Stats
Method: All Grain
Style: Berliner Weisse
Boil Time: 15 min
Batch Size: 5 gallons (fermentor volume)
Pre Boil Size: 7.5 gallons
Pre Boil Gravity: 1.054 (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 65% (brew house)
Source: Steve Irving
Calories: 272 calories (Per 12oz)
Carbs: 26.1 g (Per 12oz)
Created: Sunday July 26th 2015
1.082
1.018
8.3%
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5.7
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Fermentables
Amount Fermentable Cost PPG °L Bill %
11 lb American - Pilsner11 lb Pilsner 37 1.8 66.7%
5.50 lb American - White Wheat5.5 lb White Wheat 40 2.8 33.3%
16.50 lbs / $ 0.00
 
Hops
Amount Variety Cost Type AA Use Time IBU Bill %
1.38 oz Saaz1.38 oz Saaz Hops Pellet 2.7 Boil 0 min 100%
1.38 oz / $ 0.00
 
Other Ingredients
Amount Name Cost Type Use Time
3 each Lemon Zest Peelings Other Secondary --
 
Yeast
Wyeast - Lactobacillus 5335
Amount:
1 Each
Cost:
Attenuation (avg):
75%
Flocculation:
-
Optimum Temp:
60 - 95 °F
Starter:
Yes
Fermentation Temp:
75 °F
Pitch Rate:
0.35 (M cells / ml / ° P) 131 B cells required
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Target Water Profile
Hopkinsville, KY
Ca+2 Mg+2 Na+ Cl- SO4-2 HCO3-
150 0 7 1 1 137
Mash Chemistry and Brewing Water Calculator
 
Mash Guidelines
Amount Description Type Start Temp Target Temp Time
Sacch Rest Temperature -- 148 °F 90 min
Sacch Rest #2 Decoction -- 155 °F 15 min
Starting Mash Thickness: 1.5 qt/lb
Quick Water Requirements
Water Gallons  Quarts
Strike water volume at mash thickness of 1.5 qt/lb 6.19 24.8  
Mash volume with grains 7.51 30  
Grain absorption losses -2.06 -8.3  
Remaining sparge water volume (equipment estimates 1.55 g | 6.2 qt) 3.63 14.5  
Mash Lauter Tun losses -0.25 -1  
Pre boil volume (equipment estimates 5.43 g | 21.7 qt) 7.5 30  
Boil off losses -0.38 -1.5  
Hops absorption losses (first wort, boil, aroma) -0.05 -0.2  
Post boil Volume 5 20  
Going into fermentor 5 20  
Total: 9.81 39.3
Equipment Profile Used: System Default
 
Notes

Notes from Mad Fermenterist: Recipe Specifics
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Batch Size (Gal): 5.00
Total Grain (Lbs): 16.50
Anticipated OG: 1.030
Anticipated SRM: 2.4
Anticipated IBU: 2.3
Brewhouse Efficiency: 77% (with parti-gyle)
Wort Boil Time: 0 Minutes

Grain
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66.7% - 11.00 lbs. Rahr Pilsener
33.3% - 5.50 lbs. Wheat Malt

Hops
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1.38 oz. Czech Saaz (Pellet, 2.70% AA) Mash Hop
Extras
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Zest from 3 Lemons in Fermentor

Yeast
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Wyeast L5223-PC Lactobacillus brevis
Safale US-05 American Ale Yeast
Boulevard Saison Brett Dregs

Water Profile
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Profile: Washington, DC

Mash Schedule
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Sacch Rest - 90 min @ 148F
Sacch Rest #2 - 15 min @ 155F (Decoction)

Notes
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7/26/14 Made a 1L starter (50 g DME, nutrient, chilled to 112F, put on stirplate on low) with Wyeast L. brevis (two weeks from manufacture). Strong activity by the next morning, already a bit tart.

Brewed 7/27/14

Added 3 g of CaCl and 1 tsp of 10% phosphoric acid to the mash (along with a couple handfuls of rice hulls. Decoction didn't raise the temperature as much as I expected. Same treatment for the 170 F sparge water.

Partigyle batch sparge.

Swapped wort back and forth to achieve 7.25 gallons @ 1.052, and 5.5 gallons at 1.034.

Lemon Berliner - Brought just to a boil, added yeast nutrient, chilled to 85F, added 7.5 g of 88% lactic acid (aiming for 4.5 pH), pitched Lacto, left at 65F to ferment. OG 1.030. L. brevis and Saison Brett dregs for the first 24 hours - activity by 12 hours, then US-05 (11 g, not rehydrated) (down to 1.024 already).

Sitting at ~75F ambient after two-three days to ensure complete fermentation.

9/27/14 Down to 1.002, added strips of zest from three lemons (still in primary fermentor).

9/28/14 Bottled 4.75 gallons with 5 5/8 oz of tablet sugar. After more than half was in bottles, added 25 g of True Lemon to the remaining 2.1 gallons

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