Brewed and designed by Richard Williams of the Dudes Brew YouTube channel and founding member of The Hop Addition Podcast,  this is a traditional German Pils with a crisp spicy flavour and subtle notes of honey and crackers from the malt. The recipe was brewed for competition entry based on BJCP guidelines and scored a 40/50 and got an Honourable Mention in its first outing at Brewcon 23! 

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Ingredients Included

Crisp Dextrin Malt
Weyermann Floor Malted Bohemian Pilsner Malt

Crisp German Pilsen Malt

Tettnang Tettnanger – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets (38 grams)
Hallertau Hersbrucker – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellet (69 grams)
Wyeast 2206 Bavarian Lager. BB: 17/03/2024 (1 pack)

Method

Beer Style (main): European Lagers
Beer Style (sub): German-Style Pilsener
Batch Size: 20L
Original Gravity: 1.049
Final Gravity: 1.011
ABV %: 5
IBU: 39
Mash efficiency: 75
Brewing equipment:

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 65
Length (mins) (Step 1): 60

THE BOIL

Boil time (mins): 60

Hop / kettle additions and timing:

31g Herbrucker @FWH
18g Hersbrucker @ 15mins
18g Tettnang @ 15mins

Whirlpool / hop stand:

20g Hersbrucker 20mins @ 80c
20g Tettnang 20mins @ 80c

Yeast: 1 Pack of Wyeast 2206 build a starter to yield 375billion cells
Fermentation temperature/steps: 7 days @ 10c, 2 days @ 12c, 2 days @ 14c, 2 days @ 16c, 2 days @18c, 7days @ 2c cold crash