Extreme Brewing with 14 New Homebrew Recipes by Sam Calagione

Author:Sam Calagione
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2006-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

IMPERIAL PILSNER

A good pilsner is quite pale in color, with a pronounced malt character. Its hop profile, however, is further forward than the malt in both taste and aroma. This recipe will be a true all-barley version of the style. In order to bring this rendition into the realm of the extreme, significantly more barley and hops than the average pilsner calls for will be used. Since lager beers require more aging time than ales, you will need to transfer this beer to the sterilized bottling bucket, clean and sanitize the carboy, then transfer it back into the carboy on more hops for aging. By adding the hops after fermentation is complete, the beer will maintain more of the wonderful hop aromas that would have dissipated with the CO2 gas had the hops been added during the height of primary fermentation. You may even want to goose this pilsner with more hop complexity by preparing the bottle-conditioning priming sugar as a hop tea.

INGREDIENTS

Preboil tea

4 gallons (15 L) cool water

1/2 pound (225 g) Cara-pils crushed malt

2 teaspoons (10 g) gypsum

Boil

8 pounds (3.6 kg) Pilsner or light liquid malt extract (65 minutes)

3 pounds (1.4 kg) extra light dry malt extract (65 minutes)

(or 9.5 pounds [4.3 kg] Pilsner extra light dry malt extract)

1 ounce (28 g) Saaz hop pellets (Bittering) (60 minutes)

1/2 ounce (15 g) Saaz hop pellets (Flavor) (20 minutes)

1/2 ounce (7 g) Saaz hop pellet (aroma) (10 minutes)

1 teaspoon (5 g) Irish moss (10 minutes)

1/2 ounce (7 g) Saaz hop pellets (aroma) (End of boil)

Dry hopping

1 ounce (28 g) whole-leaf Hallertau hops (2 to 3 weeks)

In carboy

Cold water to 5-gallon (19-L) mark

Fermentation

Yeast: Wyeast 2035 American Lager or 2124 Bohemian Lager; White Labs WLP840 or WLP830 or Saflager S-23 or S-34/70

Bottling

1 ounce (28 g) whole-leaf Hallertau hops (final hop tea)

5 ounces (140 g) priming sugar

STARTING GRAVITY: 1.089

FINAL GRAVITY: 1.016

FINAL TARGET ABV: 9%

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