Rating System

1 - don't waste valuable beer calories on me
2 - tasty, walter approves
3 - so good you should have it for breakfast

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Paris Hill Pilsner


10 gal all grain

Water
Cooper Spring

Malt Bill
20 lbs Pilsner malt

Hops
5 oz Saaz 60 min
5 oz Saaz 15 min
2 oz Saaz 0 min

Yeast
Wyeast Czech Pils 2278 (2)
Smacked am and added to 1 qt of starter in pm (each)
Starter made with 3.5 oz of light DME
Started 3 days before brewing, half liquid poured off top

Mash
Strike temp 150*, stabilize at 132* 30 min
Remove 8 quarts of mash add 4 qts water bring slowly to boil, boil 15 min
Add to mash, stabilze at 153* for 1 hr
Raise to 165* by adding boiling water and sparge

Ferment (2 5 gal batches)
A. in frig at 150*
B. in cellar at 158*

Brewed 9/19/07
O.G. 1.050
Secondary fermentation 10/10/07
Diacetyl rest 3 days at 64*
To lager stage 10/11/07 at 37*

Keg 1 11/18/07
FG 1.014