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Quote from: HoosierBrew on January 03, 2017, 04:52:02 pmQuote from: goschman on January 03, 2017, 04:39:53 pmQuote from: HoosierBrew on January 03, 2017, 03:53:23 pmFWIW I did my last one with 96% Weyermann pils ,4% carahell, 17 IBU Mittelfrueh @ 60 mins. WY2206. On the next I'll try the blending Weyermann pils and pale 50/50 thing,along with 3 or 4% carahell.I tried 50/50 weyermann pale and schill pilsner on my first attempt at a German pilsner. It's is goodBut slightly too malty and dark in my opinion. I think lodo changes that approach though right?Gonna try 25/75 pale to pils next time. I've never tried Schill pils or 50/50 pils/pale yet, so I can't comment yet, other than to say that brewing lodo will lighten color noticeably where that blend might normally be darker than desired in a pils brewed the traditional homebrew way. As for being too malty, there are variables to play with like attenuating down to 1.006-1.008 for a pils as well as water chemistry. 34-70/2124 is a dry pils strain (which I think you use?).Yep 34/70. It got down to 1.009 I think and I used jever boiled profile with a 5.2 mash pH. The malt character that I got seems more suited to a bopils but I am no expert on styles. As you mention it could have something to do with the pils malt that I use in just about every beer.
Quote from: goschman on January 03, 2017, 04:39:53 pmQuote from: HoosierBrew on January 03, 2017, 03:53:23 pmFWIW I did my last one with 96% Weyermann pils ,4% carahell, 17 IBU Mittelfrueh @ 60 mins. WY2206. On the next I'll try the blending Weyermann pils and pale 50/50 thing,along with 3 or 4% carahell.I tried 50/50 weyermann pale and schill pilsner on my first attempt at a German pilsner. It's is goodBut slightly too malty and dark in my opinion. I think lodo changes that approach though right?Gonna try 25/75 pale to pils next time. I've never tried Schill pils or 50/50 pils/pale yet, so I can't comment yet, other than to say that brewing lodo will lighten color noticeably where that blend might normally be darker than desired in a pils brewed the traditional homebrew way. As for being too malty, there are variables to play with like attenuating down to 1.006-1.008 for a pils as well as water chemistry. 34-70/2124 is a dry pils strain (which I think you use?).
Quote from: HoosierBrew on January 03, 2017, 03:53:23 pmFWIW I did my last one with 96% Weyermann pils ,4% carahell, 17 IBU Mittelfrueh @ 60 mins. WY2206. On the next I'll try the blending Weyermann pils and pale 50/50 thing,along with 3 or 4% carahell.I tried 50/50 weyermann pale and schill pilsner on my first attempt at a German pilsner. It's is goodBut slightly too malty and dark in my opinion. I think lodo changes that approach though right?Gonna try 25/75 pale to pils next time.
FWIW I did my last one with 96% Weyermann pils ,4% carahell, 17 IBU Mittelfrueh @ 60 mins. WY2206. On the next I'll try the blending Weyermann pils and pale 50/50 thing,along with 3 or 4% carahell.
How about water? I have a mash pH of 5.4 with:Ca - 53Mg - 6Na - 15SO4 - 54Cl - 70based off of yellow malty