#18 Happy Pils v2.0

Last year I made a pilsener using a Morgans kit. I loved it, and it converted me over to the dry, crisp tastes of a good Bohemian Pils. This year, I thought I would try and replicate the recipe as best as possible for a partial mash. I decided to also stick with the traditional Czech Saaz hops variety, even though I was tempted to use the New Zealander B-Saaz variety, purported to be used in the very awesome James Squire Pilsener! The plan is to make another batch of this recipe using that hops, to see the difference in flavour the hops yields.

Ingredients

• 200g Carapils grain
• 1.5kg Bohemian Pilsener grain
• 500g Munich Malt 1 grain
• 2kg Light Dry Malt Extract
• 60g Czech Saaz hops pellets @ 60mins
• 30g Czech Saaz hops pellets @ 30mins
• 6x Czech Saaz hops plugs @ flame-out
• 1/2 tab Irish Moss @ 5mins
• Wyeast 2278 Czech Pils liquid yeast

Method

• Make a yeast starter from the liquid yeast from the night before.
• Placing grains in a grain-bag, steep grains for 1 hour at a constant temperature of 63-65°C
• Take grains out, rinse with similar temp water, and squeeze excess out.
• Bring wort to the boil, add 805g LDME, and add first load of hops.
• After 1/2 hour, add trhe second load of hops.
• Five minutes before the end of boil add remainder malt and 1/2 tab of Irish Moss dissolved in 1/2 cup water.
• At flame-out, add the Hops plugs and put lid on.
• Cool wort and top up in the fermenter to 23Lt.
• Drain the liquid from the yeast starter, and pitch the slurry into the beer wort. Pitching temp was 22°C

• 2 Aug               OG: 1.061
• 24 Aug             SG:  1.011
• 4 Sept              bulk primed with 140g Dextrose & bottled

ALC/VOL. 7.3%

Tags: Bohemian, homebrew, Lager, Partial Mash, Pilsener