Brew #28 GF Pilsner #2

January 07, 2012

Linda's GF Beer #2

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Brewer: Toby (Trollby) Carlson

Style: Premium American Lager

Batch: 2.25 galExtract

Characteristics

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Recipe Gravity: 1.051 OG

Recipe Bitterness: 16 IBU

Recipe Color: 3° SRM

Estimated FG: 1.013

Alcohol by Volume: 4.9%

Alcohol by Weight: 3.8%

Ingredients

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Honey 1.00 lb, Sugar, Other

Rice Syrup Solids 0.50 lb, Extract, Extract

Sorghum Liquid Extract 1.80 lb, Extract, Extract

Cascade 0.25 oz, Whole, 15 minutes

Hersbrucker (Germany) 0.50 oz, Pellet, 60 minutes

Kent Goldings (U.K.) 0.25 oz, Pellet, 0 minutes

Saflager S-23 Dry Lager Yeast 1.00 unit, Yeast, Temperature Range: 51°-59°(optimal), up to 75°F 11.5 GRAMS

Yeast Nutrient 2.00 unit, Additive, 1 teaspoon per Gallon of beer at pitch time

Notes

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Recipe Notes:

Add 2 gallons of filtered tap water, Sorghum Liquid Extract, Rice Syrup solids. then add additional water until reach 2.75 gallons of liquid.Bring to a boil add Hersbrucker hops and boil for 45 min, now add the Cascade hops and boil an additional 10 min. Remove from heat, stir in Honey and mix well, now place in ICE bath until temp reaches 70* F.

Pour cooled WORT into fermentor, add Goldings hops, aerate well and take OG sample then add Yeast nutrients and pitch yeast.

Wait 30 min then aerate again and wait 24 hours before adding to cooler to lager at 50*F

Day 16 raise temp to 62*F for diacetyl rest, after 3 days take back to 50*F for 1 weeks

Batch Notes:

Batch Size: 2.25 gal Brewer: Toby Carlson

Boil Size: 2.50 gal

Boil Time: 60 min

Equipment: 4 gal stock pot or larger

Sanitize all equipment including hop-sacks

OG = 1.053 @ 68*F

FG = 1.011 @ 54*F

ABV = 5.8%

02/04/2012

I got 21 12oz bottles and 1 10oz tester

Used 40g corn sugar to batch prime for 2.5 CO2