JC Art & Science of Brewing - Erstes Deutsches Bier

Tutorial / Erstes Deutsches Bier

Ingredients

  • 1 liters Water
  • Grain
    • 113.15g 40L Crystal
    • 112.15g Special B

Protocol


6 Feb 2018

  1. Crush the grain and mix it
  2. Increase the Water temperature to 75 °C
  3. The base
    • 00:00 - Put the grains in the Water (Steep)
    • 21:40 - Filter the grains out of the water (Mashing)
    • 21:41 - Rinse the grain with wort (Sparging)
  4. Malt
    • 00:00 - Bring wort to a boil (100 °C)
    • 10:00 - Wort boiling
    • 10:15 - Add hops (8g Cascade)
    • 55:08 - Add hops (8g Fuggle)
    • 60:50 - Add Irish moos
    • 70:08 - Add hops (8g Fuggle)
    • 75:04 - Begin, chill wort to 24 °C
    • 79:45 - Wort chilled to 24 °C
  5. Fermentation
    Fill malt in fermentation bottle through a hop-filter
    • Gravity test result (OG): 1.056
  6. Add 200ml of yeast starter
  7. Plug bottle with a CO2 valve
  8. 1 Week of fertilization

13 Feb 2018

  1. Transfer wort to 2nd fertilization
  2. 1 Week of fertilization

20 Feb 2018

  1. Gravity test
  • Gravity test result (FG): 1.003
  • => Alcohol By Volume: 6.96 %
    • Original Gravity: 13.80 °P, 1.056
    • Final Gravity: 0.77 °P, 1.003
    • Apparent Attenuation: 94 %
  1. Mix Priming Sugar
  • 115g sugar in 1l water
  1. Add 150ml of the priming sugar solution to the wort
  2. Transfer wort into (4 and a half bottles)
  3. min. 2 Weeks in bottled conditioned
  • This will add the carbonation (CO2) to the beer

Characteristics

  • Color: SRM 30 - clear
  • Alcohol: 6.96 %vol
  • Light smell
  • Malty flavor
  • Stable foam
  • Light bubbles
  • Bitter impression mild