First Brewday of 2017
One advantage of being temporarily unemployed is having plenty of time to make some beer. Now I've finished decorating the hall I can concentrate on more important issues. I've got a bit of a thing about German ales, I've made Kolsch a couple of times but never an Altbier so this is my first attempt.
Altbier recipe BIAB
- Mash for 1 hr at 66°C
- Boil for 75 mins
- Mash water volume 30lt
- Munich malt 2kg
- Pilsner malt 2kg
- Carapils 300g
- Caramunich III 500g
- Carafa III 60g
- Halletauer MF 80g - whole leaf (at start)
- Saaz 25g - pellets (30 mins)
- Irish Moss 1 tsp (15 mins)
- Fermentis K97 German Ale yeast 11g pack
- Recipe in Brewers Friend
Results
Ended up with 20lt in the fermenter and pitched yeast at 18°C. A bit less volume than I intended but there was a fair amount of hoppy gunk left in the pan which I discarded.
OG was 1.050 which is exactly as forecast!
I've been hoping to use this yeast for a while but I haven't seen it in 11g packs before, only the 500g size seemed to be available in the UK until recently.
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