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[Bigbre04]

Hey all,

I have a Marzen that will be crashing here soon. Going to call this my oktoberfest for this year. I also have the PP Sour that is also going to be on draft soon. I was debating between brewing a Helles or more Hefe for the end of summer. I have 2 draft lines that i can put it on. I can replace the blueberry kolsch with the helles or brew more Hefe and put the helles on after the blueberry.

what do yall think?

Helles that I just whipped up. made it a little bigger to make it different from my normal Golden lager that is a year around(and probably closest to a german pilsner stylewise) I would use Apex Augustian Lager yeast and Spund it at 14C. So I could easily have it ready before oktoberfest technically starts.

Helles
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1650784

Golden Lager
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1427656



Current draft
1-Hefe -- 5.1 abv 14ibu --> maybe more hefe OR Helles???
2-Red Ale -- 5.4/27 --> Marzen(oktoberfest) 5.7/25ibu
3-Apricot sour -- 5.8/0 --> Prickly Pear Sour 6/0 pink AF
4-POG IPA -- 7.3/55 --> Strata IPA 7.1/54
5-Golden Lager -- 5/23 (year around)
6-Black Lager(schwarzbier) -- 5.8/24 -->more of the same until it starts to get cooler for stout season
7-Blueberry Kolsch -- 6.1/19 --> possibly a helles or just more of the same blueberry kolsch(its very good).
8-Session Juicy IPA -- 5/37 (year around)

 

[Brew Cat]

should definitely have a heffe on tap during Oktoberfest along with the Marzen and also a Pils

 

[Bigbre04]

should definitely have a heffe on tap during Oktoberfest along with the Marzen and also a Pils

If we end up doing an event i will change the names for the beers to reflect the german style. (example being my black lager i will call a Schwarzbier but the gen pop doesnt know what that is so i call it a black lager)

doubtful that we will do anything but i can dream right?

 

[Bigbre04]

I will probably end up brewing the Hefe next week. This week i am thinking i will brew Either a double batch of my standard golden lager or a batch of the imperial pils to age for a few months.

just got all of the keg couplers changed out and a nitrogen genie is on order so that will be good!

 

[west1m]

I just brewed the beer for our "Polkatoberfest" . Basically a Bush lite clone. Went empty quickly last year. Just put a German tap handle on it and I'm in.

 

[Sandy Feet]

Hey all,

I have a Marzen that will be crashing here soon. Going to call this my oktoberfest for this year. I also have the PP Sour that is also going to be on draft soon. I was debating between brewing a Helles or more Hefe for the end of summer. I have 2 draft lines that i can put it on. I can replace the blueberry kolsch with the helles or brew more Hefe and put the helles on after the blueberry.

what do yall think?

Helles that I just whipped up. made it a little bigger to make it different from my normal Golden lager that is a year around(and probably closest to a german pilsner stylewise) I would use Apex Augustian Lager yeast and Spund it at 14C. So I could easily have it ready before oktoberfest technically starts.

Helles
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1650784

Golden Lager
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1427656



Current draft
1-Hefe -- 5.1 abv 14ibu --> maybe more hefe OR Helles???
2-Red Ale -- 5.4/27 --> Marzen(oktoberfest) 5.7/25ibu
3-Apricot sour -- 5.8/0 --> Prickly Pear Sour 6/0 pink AF
4-POG IPA -- 7.3/55 --> Strata IPA 7.1/54
5-Golden Lager -- 5/23 (year around)
6-Black Lager(schwarzbier) -- 5.8/24 -->more of the same until it starts to get cooler for stout season
7-Blueberry Kolsch -- 6.1/19 --> possibly a helles or just more of the same blueberry kolsch(its very good).
8-Session Juicy IPA -- 5/37 (year around)

I know you don't have the space to sit on anything, and you have a Marzen, which I assume is a lager, but it would be nice to do that Helles as a more crushable lager with just the Munich and Pils.
I have made a couple of the German beers, and I am far from an expert, but if you keep them simple (Pils/Vienna/Munich) they come out good with a clean lager yeast.
You brew a hell of a lot more than I do though LOL.

 

[Bigbre04]

I know you don't have the space to sit on anything, and you have a Marzen, which I assume is a lager, but it would be nice to do that Helles as a more crushable lager with just the Munich and Pils.
I have made a couple of the German beers, and I am far from an expert, but if you keep them simple (Pils/Vienna/Munich) they come out good with a clean lager yeast.
You brew a hell of a lot more than I do though LOL.

my standard golden lager is a german pils, i just dont call it that as no one would know what that is.

golden lager
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1427656

im currently battling my glycol chiller being down so my brew schedule for this week is screwed. Waiting on more glycol.

 

[Bigbre04]

I just brewed the beer for our "Polkatoberfest" . Basically a Bush lite clone. Went empty quickly last year. Just put a German tap handle on it and I'm in.

yup im gonna do a similar thing and put the actual german names for things on my board and change my little logo things to a bavarian flag version to mark the german beers.

 

[Brew Cat]

my standard golden lager is a german pils, i just dont call it that as no one would know what that is.

golden lager
https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/embed/1427656

im currently battling my glycol chiller being down so my brew schedule for this week is screwed. Waiting on more glycol.

10oz chocolate malt in 80 gallons ?

 

[Sandy Feet]

It is a light beer. I'm surprised it is in there at all, but nothing wrong with a little something, something. So, 10oz in 80 gallons, yes.

 

[The Brew Mentor]

You could do the Hefe as a Blueberry Hefe.
I've done it with Blackberry with fantastic results.

 

[Brew Cat]

You could do the Hefe as a Blueberry Hefe.
I've done it with Blackberry with fantastic results.

well that wouldn't pass the Reinheitsgebot rule

 

[Bigbre04]

10oz chocolate malt in 80 gallons ?

you would be surprised but you can taste it on the very back end of the beer. It is almost a slight round chocolate note on the very end of the finish. it also darkens the beer a bit to a more golden color.

You would not know it was there if i didnt tell you, but it is perceptible. I have actually done tests of chocolate, black, RB, and black patent. I really like the golden lager. Its very clean and tasty. also quick to produce.