Brew #41 Oktoberfest

August 06, 2012

Brewer: Trollby

Style: Oktoberfest/Marzen

Batch: 2.40 galExtract

Characteristics

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Recipe Gravity: 1.052 OG

Recipe Bitterness: 26 IBU

Recipe Color: 14° SRM

Estimated FG: 1.013

Alcohol by Volume: 5.0%

Alcohol by Weight: 3.9%

Ingredients

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Briess LME - Munich 2.00 lb, Extract, Extract

CaraVienne - [Body, Malt, Sweet]0.50 lb, Grain, Steeped

MrB. Octoberfest Vienna Lager 1.21 lb, Extract, Extract

Hallertauer (Germany) 0.50 oz, Pellet, 20 minutes

MrB. Octoberfest Vienna Lager 1.00 oz, Pellet, 5 minutes

Saflager W-34/70 1.00 unit, Yeast, Temperature Range: 48°-59° F 11.5 GRAMS

Notes

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Recipe Notes:

Add 2 Quarts of filtered tap water to 20qt pot and heat to 165*F turn off heat and add grains and steep for 30min.

Remove grains, add LME and bring to rolling boil.

Add hops for 10min, remove from heat and add HME.

Fill keg with filtered cold water to the 4-quart mark on the back.

Pour WORT into fermentor, add water to the top of "Quart" mark on Mr. beer keg, mix well

Take OG sample, aerate well and pitch yeast.

Wait 30 min, aerate again

Place keg in lager chest and maintain 48-52*F temp for 16-21 days

Raise temp of LBK to 62-66*F for 3 days for the D-rest.

After D-rest lower temp to 48-52*F for 7-10 days then bottle

Not sure what happened but the OG came in way low, maybe I did not mix it as well, or more water than expected (2.5+?)

OG = 1.044 @ 68*F

FG = 1.011 @ 52*F

ABV = 4.6%

08/19/2012

Figured out what I did wrong!!!!

I measured out the Munich malt wrong and only put 1.5# not 2# DOH!!

09/03/2012

Bottled 24 - 12oz and 1 - 10oz trub bottle

Used 64g Booster for 2.7 C02

10/25/2012

First Pour

Taste was very good, little light at 4.6% but taste was in style.