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Beer Style: Munchner-Style Helles, Dortmunder/European-Style Export, Pilsner
Recipe Type: all-grain
Yield: 5 gallons
Description:
Adapted from Germany's Speidels Bohemian Lager recipe speidels-braumeister.de and converted to the amber style Czech lager. The malt flavors of the Czech Amber Lager style beers can vary ranging from drier, bready, and slightly biscuity to sweeter and somewhat caramelly according to BJCP. Our interpretation features the new Red-Wing Amber Millet Malt.
Ingredients:
- Pale Rice Malt 12.00 lb (60%)
- Red-Wing Amber Millet Malt 4.00 lb (20%)
- Biscuit Rice Malt 4.00 lb (20%)
- Hallertauer Mittelfruh (IBU:12.9) 1.00 oz (36%) Pellet Boil 60 min
- Hallertauer Mittelfruh (IBU:6.8)0.60 oz (21%) Pellet Boil 40 min
- Cascade (IBU: 0.0) 0.60 oz (21%) Pellet Boil 0 min
- Hallertauer Mittelfruh (IBU:0.0)0.60 oz (21%) Pellet Boil 0 min
- 1 vial Czech Style Lager gluten free liquid yeast (Propagate Labs)
Additional Instructions
Primary Ferment: 5 - 7 days @ 65FSecondary Ferment: 21 - 30 days @ 35F
Beer Profile
Original Gravity: 1.053Final Gravity: 1.010
Alcohol by Vol: 5.7%
Color SRM: 12.0
Bitterness IBU: 21.7
Recipe Type: all-grain
Yield: 5.0 Gallons
Procedure:
PREPARATION:
Clean and sanitize your work area and equipment using a cleaner and sanitizer specifically for brewing.
MASH INSTRUCTIONS:
Perform single infusion or reverse step mash for 90-120 minutes using 15-25 ml Termamyl -OR- SEBAmyl BAL 100 enzymes; in conjunction -WITH- 15-25 ml SEBAmyl L enzymes.
SPARGE INSTRUCTIONS:
“Fly sparge” by gently sprinkling water from the hot liquid tank while matching flow rates of the mash tun and hot liquor tank.