Batch 3 Notes

Batch 3* Notes

Maibock (Northern Brewer extract kit)

Specialty Grains
1 lbs. Belgian Caramel Pils

Fermentables
3.15 lbs. Gold Malt Syrup (boil for 60 min.)
6 lbs. Gold Malt Syrup (boil for 15 min.)

Boil Additions
2 oz. Spalt (60 min)
1 oz. Argentina Cascade (15 min)

Yeast
Wyeast #2124 Bohemian Lager Yeast. A pilsner yeast from the Weihenstephen. Ferments clean and malty, with rich residual maltiness in full gravity pilsners. Flocculation: medium. Apparent attenuation: 69-73%. Optimum temperature: 48-58.

Brewed: 3/29/2008 starting at 7:00 PM

Fermenatation vessel: 6.5 G Ale Pail

Pitched yeast at 64° F.

OG: 1.058

Airlock activity noticed approximately 20 hours after pitching. Temperature on the Ale Pail thermometer is 56-57° F attained in the unheated crawlspace in the basement.

* I've brewed 5 or 6 batches about 8 years ago before a co-worker got me re-interested in homebrewing again. I've restarted my brewing diary online at this site so this will be batch #3.