mosto
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Hi all,
I'm slowly but surely expanding my knowledge / palate on all things homebrew. The last couple of kits I've done I've added ten minute boil of hops, which I've been impressed with the flavour it's adding. I'm now looking to steep some grains and then boil hops in the resulting liquor. I've come up with the following recipe for a Vienna Lager style of brew:
1.7 kg Coopers Draught
1.3 kg DDME
200g CaraMunich 1
100g CaraPils
15g Strisselspalt @ 10 min
15g Strisselspalt @ 0 min
S23 yeast
I've read a lot of conflictiing views on what volume of water to steep the grains in. What I was thinking was roughly 3 times the amount of grain, so about 1 ltr. Does this grain / water volume seem OK? Also, I've read it's better to cold steep darker grains, so would you recommend I do this for the CaraMunich?
Cheers,
Mosto
I'm slowly but surely expanding my knowledge / palate on all things homebrew. The last couple of kits I've done I've added ten minute boil of hops, which I've been impressed with the flavour it's adding. I'm now looking to steep some grains and then boil hops in the resulting liquor. I've come up with the following recipe for a Vienna Lager style of brew:
1.7 kg Coopers Draught
1.3 kg DDME
200g CaraMunich 1
100g CaraPils
15g Strisselspalt @ 10 min
15g Strisselspalt @ 0 min
S23 yeast
I've read a lot of conflictiing views on what volume of water to steep the grains in. What I was thinking was roughly 3 times the amount of grain, so about 1 ltr. Does this grain / water volume seem OK? Also, I've read it's better to cold steep darker grains, so would you recommend I do this for the CaraMunich?
Cheers,
Mosto