Too Much Munich

[Wrenny]

I have a shed load of Munich malt left, and not much in the way of base malts (only 2kg galaxy left). I was thinking of doing a cupboard cleaner oktoberfest like this:


BeerSmith Recipe Printout - www.beersmith.com
Recipe: Cupboard Cleaner Oktoberfest
Brewer: Michael
Asst Brewer:
Style: Oktoberfest/Marzen
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: (0.0)

Recipe Specifications
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Batch Size: 23.00 L
Boil Size: 25.00 L
Estimated OG: 1.053 SG
Estimated Color: 14.1 SRM
Estimated IBU: 24.1 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75.0 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item Type % or IBU
3.50 kg Munich Malt - 20L (20.0 SRM) Grain 63.6 %
2.00 kg Pale Malt, Galaxy (Barrett Burston) (1.5 SGrain 36.4 %
50.00 gm Hallertauer Mittelfrueh [3.70%] (60 min) Hops 18.7 IBU
40.00 gm Hallertauer Mittelfrueh [3.70%] (10 min) Hops 5.4 IBU
1 Pkgs US05 (US05 #US05) Yeast-Ale


Mash Schedule: Step Decoction 68 - 78
Total Grain Weight: 5.50 kg
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Name Description Step Temp Step Time
Mash In Add 16.50 L of water at 73.8 C 68.0 C 90 min
Mash Out Decoct 6.28 L of mash and boil it 78.0 C 10 min




Doing a ******* lager (ie US05 fermented about 18 deg) because I don't have a brewing fridge and can't get down below 18 at the moment.

Is this too much munich?
Could you to a tasty brew with all munich?

Any other comments on the recipe would be appreciated.


Cheers,

Wrenny

 

[kevnlis]

Too much Munich for whom? I personally do not think you can have too much! You could make a beer with 100% Munich if you wanted...

 

[pint of lager]

Looks fine.

You can do a stout or porter with Munich as base. Or a strong pale ale around 40 IBU. It will give a big malty backbone that will take plenty of hops.

If it is uncrushed, just store it somewhere cool and buy another bag of pale ale or pilsner malt.

Munich is kilned a bit higher than pale ale malt, has less diastic power (less enzymes) so don't ask it to convert much adjunct like flaked barley, wheat or rice.

 

[drsmurto]

MMMMmmmmmunich. I used it as the base for my last porter!

 

[tangent]

once you use munich or vienna purely as a base malt... there's no going back... it's the slippery slope of malt addiction

 

[therook]

What about an ALT beer

I'm doing one this weekend with about 70% Munich 1

Rook

 

[randyrob]

i actually ran out of all my usual base malts the other day and stating starring at a 25kg bag of weyerman munich 1 B)

 

[Wrenny]

Altbier,

Good call Rook. I'll give that a shot.

 

[pmolou]

how much %munich does a bock usually have???

 

[Jazzafish]

how much %munich does a bock usually have???

Depends who you ask!

100% for some

 

[petesbrew]

Altbier,

Good call Rook. I'll give that a shot.

I used 2.5kg light munich as the only grain in my partial alt last october (plus the morgans extra pale malt extract).
It was deadset awesome.
Pete