New Brunswick Craft Brewers Association
Beer Recipes and Food => All Grain => 23 - Specialty Beer => Topic started by: brew on September 25, 2011, 12:33:45 PM
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OK - so I wanted to do a Munich / Rye based beer... I'm struggling with what hops to use. I have some Challenger I've been wanting to try (thanks Kyle), but I also hear great things about Saaz with Pilsen malt - does this look weird?
7.00 pounds Bohemian Pilsen Malt
2.00 pounds German Light Munich Malt
0.50 pounds German CaraMunich Malt I
0.25 pounds German Carafa I
2.00 pounds German Rye Malt
0.5 Challenger @ 60 min
1.5 Saaz leaf @ 5 min
Mash 60 min @ 150F
Sparge 15 min @ 168
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Sounds interesting.
The challenger will give that spicy character like in my stout, and the saaz will give a floral aroma. I'd say go for it. The specialty malts will probably drown out any unique characteristics of the Pils malt, but thats still ok. The fruity esters of the S-04 yeast would probabably be a good plan for this beer.
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Cool - thanks Kyle - yeah I think I'll try the S04...
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You'll probably want to increase the boil to a 90 mins hard boil as the Pilsner malt is notorious for DMS in shorter boils.
Do you happen to have any Vienna? I ask as if you swapped the Pilsner for Vienna you'd get something very Oktoberfest like.
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He's using the Weyerman Pils (I think). I've done a half dozen brews with that which were only 45 minutes with no problems.
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Yes Kyle that's right - although this one is the Bohemian Pilsner - the spec sheet is a little better than the regular pilsner malt - not sure if it will translate into anything noticable - but my palate is not very educated anyway...
Vienna - sounds interesting - I'm learning a lot about this now - apparently Munich can be used as a base malt as well. From what I've read, Vienna is somewhere in between 2 row and Munich... although the HBT wiki describes Vienna as more biscuit while the Munich is described as more malty / sweet - which is what I was after. Of course this is my first time with Munich, so I held it back to under 20% and added the body with Caramunich and the Carafa for some umph... throwing darts blind basically :D I've never been able to identify Saaz or Challenger flavors either, so this will be a learning experience - hope it doesn't turn out horribly...
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Did this up today - I used 6 pounds of pilsner instead of 7, and .75 oz of Challenger and .75 oz of Saaz - smells good so far...