Bavarian Helles

[Good Ed]

Next up in the morning is a Helles, a beer I had some success with at TST, recipe from one of Jamil's podcasts. Helles is a light malty lager balanced by a delicate hop flavour.

23L ; 74% efficiency
4630g Pilsner malt (94%)
236g Munich I (4.8%
59g Melanoidin (1.2%)
37g Hallertau Hersbrucker 4.13% AA at 60mins
mash 90mins at 66C; boil 90mins
WLP830 German Lager Yeast
OG 1049; FG 1010; ABV 5.07%; IBU (Rager) 19.1; EBC 7.7
CaCO3 to 30ppm; Ca to 150ppm with CaCl

 

[pittsy]

My favourite of all the lagers , hope it goes well for you . Are you planning on lagering it and how long do you do it

 

[Good Ed]

I'd like to, but I'm doing 2 ales and 2 lagers this w/e and next and only have 1 fermenting fridge, however the cellar is at 15C ambient so the lagers will be fermenting at 13C, depending on the heatwave we are having , and I will try and lager, I usually lager at 1C for about 4-6 weeks depending on whether I need to use the fermenting fridge. Without lagering I just leave the bottles in the cellar longer before drinking.

 

[Good Ed]

in an effort to get some different pics here are a couple crappy ones of the liquor coming to the top of the grain while underletting and the mash all mixed in

 

[Good Ed]

start of sparge

 

[Good Ed]

boil

 

[Good Ed]

yeast starter before decanting spent wort

 

[Good Ed]

and now spent wort decanted and 500ml of cooled wort from boil to get the yeasties lively



unsuccessful attempt to get extra cooling by running the hose through iced water, but could only get to 22C



so ended up with just under 22L at 1055 and will liquor back to 23.5L at 1051 . I'm loosing a bit more to the boil in the hot weather. I've taken the FV with the beer I did yesterday out of the fermenting fridge and put this one in to cool to 13C and will then take out and leave in the cellar.

 

[Good Ed]

just bottled this as well as the Schiehallion, both tasted great so have decided not to lager, but they will stay in the cellar for a few weeks/months

 

[pittsy]

Good to know , I shall be brewing this soon myself , slightly different grain bill but same yeast etc . I have finally gotten my brew fridge and all's well there but my yeast starter hasn't started ( well past It's use date ) so got to order more before starting

 

[Good Ed]

the recipe is from one of Jamil's podcasts, and he recommends pitching the yeast at 7C and ferment at 10C

 

[pittsy]

I'll be doing this version hopefully next week http://braukaiser.com/wiki/index.php?title=Edel_Hell