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HI all,
I'm having a crack at brewing an Oktoberfest, as it's a style I enjoy but have never gotten around to brewing, I've been looking at other people's recipes online, there don't seem to be too many rules and a fairly broad degree of differentiation between recipes. A lot of crystal malt and late hop additions - something I feel is more suited to a pale ale than this type of beer, but I think this is to a degree an american influence.
I've tried to design this version fairly close to the style definition, so I've avoided crystal malts and flavour/aroma hop additions (I want to be all about the malt), I want a fairly constrained version of the style, so opted for more pilsner malt and less munich / vienna.
The colour came out quite light, I have a small chocolate malt addition to bump this up a bit.
Anyway, open to ideas / suggestions - particularly around the malt bill, whether I should bump up the munich/vienna, and whether any carbonate additions would be advisable (given that Munich / vienna water styles are 200ppm carbonate compared with melbourne which is around 5), I don't think this is really necessary with only 14.5 EBC, but open to opinion on this.
Estimated ABV is 5.4%
Yeast is WYeast 2206 Bavarian Lager
Fermentation at 10 degrees C
Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 36.68 l
Post Boil Volume: 30.68 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 24.00 l
Bottling Volume: 22.00 l
Estimated OG: 1.054 SG
Estimated Color: 14.5 EBC
Estimated IBU: 24.0 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 65.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 79.9 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes
Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
3.84 kg Pilsner (Hoepfner) (3.3 EBC) Grain 1 59.7 %
1.60 kg Munich Malt (Hoepfner) (17.7 EBC) Grain 2 24.9 %
0.96 kg Vienna (Hoepfner) (7.9 EBC) Grain 3 14.9 %
0.03 kg Chocolate Malt (Joe White) (750.6 EBC) Grain 4 0.5 %
55.09 g Hallertauer Mittelfrueh [4.80 %] - Boil Hop 5 24.0 IBUs
Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Medium Body
Total Grain Weight: 6.43 kg
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Name Description Step Temperat Step Time
Mash In Add 19.78 l of water at 77.1 C 66.7 C 60 min
Mash Out Add 9.38 l of water at 99.5 C 75.6 C 10 min
Sparge: Fly sparge with 16.99 l water at 75.6 C
