Almost ready to lager my Staro pils now, it's turned out fairly well, had a couple of process problems however, underpitched it so i had to add some 34/70 dry to it after a few days. Tastes fairly yeasty and has lots of diacetyl from underpitching. From what i hear the yeast is a fairly high diacetyl producer anyway, but i definitely did it no favours with the underpitch (and i forgot to decant my 1L stirplate starter, so now it has the slight flavour of oxidised starter wort in there as well <_< ). Going to give it a d-rest and lager it for a while at 0C to clean it up. Once you get past the initial hit of diacetyl on the palate, even without lagering, the aftertaste and back of palate flavour is very similar to Urquell, probably the amount of Saaz hops i used. Nice amount of residual sweetness which is what i was after.
Got another batch ready to pitch in the next couple of days (in a cube now, just waiting for my 2.5L starter to grow out), a Helles with Sauvin, Saphir and Saaz hops, it will be very transparent and show me the true yeast character, i'll post back here when i've got some results from that.
I love lager season :lol:
