Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Black Cap Beer

The first Common is now bottled. I have decided to treat it like a Seasonal Release, therefore it's only in 22's. With around 7 percent ABV, it's gonna be one of those beers that you should savor. Hopefully the flavor coincides with this. My next beer is going to be a pilsner, as per Katie's request, thinking about rehashing the German one I made with a partial mash recipe not too long ago. It will look something like this

8# German pils malt
1# Vienna malt
6 oz Carapils

2 0z saaz for 60 min
.5 oz tettnanger for 30 min
.5 oz tettnanger for 15 min

The guys at Brewcraft told me that a triple decoction was the best way to get a really clean and crisp pils, I don't know if my set up could handle all that. It involves taking part of the mash out and boiling it to raise the temp of the whole mash slowly. The other thing that would do is lengthen my brew day by about 3 hours, I will probably just do a single infusion and try to rig some filters and what not to clean out the beer nicely.

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