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Hello Helles
Munich Helles • All Grain • 12.50 gal
A true to style helles.
August 14, 2008 pm 07:12pm
4.8/5.0 1 rating
Ingredients (All Grain, 12.50 gal)
- 16.5 lbs
German 2-row Pils
German 2-row Pils
- 6 lbs
Cara-Pils® Malt; Briess
Cara-Pils® Malt; Briess
Characteristics & Applications: • The endosperm is completely glassy and will appear to be darker than standard Brewers Malt. • Carapils® is a very unique dextrine-style malt that adds body, foam retention, and beer stability without influencing color or flavor. • Use to upgrade all types of beer, including light colored beers. • The non-fermentables in Carapils® are very advantageous in balancing body and flavor of dark colored beers. • May be used with or without other specialty malts. • Low usage of 1-5% will help achieve desired results. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.
- 5/16 lbs
Victory® Malt; Briess
Victory® Malt; Briess
Biscuity, baking bread, nutty flavors. Characteristics & Applications: • With an aroma of baking bread, Victory® Malt is great in Nut Brown Ales and other dark beers. • Special processing develops the biscuity, baking bread, nutty flavors that are distinctive in Victory® Malt. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 6-Row Malting Barley varieties.
- 4 oz
Hallertau - 3.1 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min
Hallertau
Good for all around bittering and finishing stock ales, Belgian ales, and continental style lagers. Aroma is mild, pleasant and flowery.
- 1 tsp
Whirfloc Tablet - (omitted from calculations)
Whirfloc Tablet
- 1 tsp
Servomyses Caplet - (omitted from calculations)
Servomyses Caplet
-
White Labs WLP830 German Lager
White Labs WLP830 German Lager
This yeast is one of the most widely used lager yeasts in the world. Very malty and clean, great for all German lagers, pilsner, oktoberfest, and marzen.
Notes
Schedule: Ambient Air: 80.0 °F Source Water: 70.0 °F Elevation: 500.0 m 00:05:00 Mash In - Liquor: 9.98 gal; Strike: 97.2 °F; Target: 95.0 °F 00:25:00 Beta Glucanase Rest - Rest: 20.0 min; Final: 95.0 °F 00:50:00 Decoction #1 - Volume: 3.18 gal; Boil: 10.0 min; Target: 125.0 °F 01:20:00 Protein Rest - Rest: 30.0 min; Final: 124.8 °F 01:45:00 Decoction #2 - Volume: 4.21 gal; Boil: 10.0 min; Target: 154 °F 02:15:00 Saccharification Rest - Rest: 30.0 min; Final: 153.7 °F 02:40:00 Decoction #3 Mash Out - Volume: 2.49 gal; Boil: 10.0 min; Target: 165 °F 04:10:00 Fly Sparge - Sparge Volume: 10.31 gal; Sparge Temperature: 180.0 °F; Runoff: 16.13 gal Notes This is a highly complicated mashing proceedure and not for the faint of heart or those who do not have eight hours available to brew.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 1 - Light Lager
Subcategory: D - Munich Helles
| Range for this Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Gravity: | 1.050 | 1.045 - 1.051 |  |
| Terminal Gravity: | 1.011 | 1.008 - 1.012 | |
| Color: | 3.4 SRM | 3 - 5 | |
| Alcohol: | 5.2% ABV | 4.7% - 5.4% | |
| Bitterness: | 17.5 IBU | 16 - 22 | |
Discussion
Brewed 8/16/2008
2008-08-22 6:16pm
I brewed this baby on a joint brew day with a friend from my homebrewing club. Everything turned out pretty well. I thought I would be a little short on the conversion so I added a pound of american 2 row that he had laying around to the mash to bump up the OG. The was OG: 1.051. It is currently in the fermentation frige and should be done soon and going into the keg!. I am looking forward to tasting this one. ~John~ www.clarksvillecarboys.com
Pretty Good
2008-12-10 4:23pm
All in all this was a great beer. The best one I have ever made. I think I can make it better through my process but you should try to make it. The important thing is to drive off the DMS with your 90 minute boil.
Recipe Change 5-25-09
2009-05-25 3:14pm
Minor recipe updates for fine tuning and volume.
Hops
2009-09-30 2:57am
Interesting choice of hops. Are you sure that is "to style?"
Yes
2009-09-30 4:56am
Yes, only because that is what I had laying around. The hops choice doesn't matter really because the volitle flavor and aroma compounds are driven off by the extended boil. In fact, in Jamil Z.'s recipe I believe he is using warrior because it's only for bitterness. There are no late additions. Sticklebract is also a high alpha bittering hop.
Citrus Helles?
2009-09-30 4:24pm
Sticklebract and Warrior both have citrusy overtones. Both are out of place in a Helles, by far. In such a light beer, the flavors carry through, even at a 60 minute addition. I believe you are wrong about JZ. He tends to brew to style, unlike this recipe. You need to ammend the summary for this beer, to exclude the words "true to style." We don't need people trying to brew Helles beers with Cascade, and saying, "its just a bittering addition"
Disagree
2009-10-01 2:39pm
I did check my "Brewing Classic Styles" just to make sure, and the recipe does call for hallertau. I have used both hallertau and sticklebract. I would agree with you that the "piney aroma and flavor" of sticklebract does not belong in a helles but no one in my brew club could tell that I used it. That is because all of the flavors and aromas were boiled off. You can disagree with me if you want, but unless you have used the hop or made this beer you won't know. Further more if a helles brewed with sticklebract can fool the BJCP judges then how can you say that it is not to style? Now I am not saying that all helles should be brewed with high alpha hops only. I only used the stcklebract for this recipe because I bought a half a kilo from Austrailia and I had it around. In fact since then I have gone back to using hallertau. I only did this so that all of my ingredients in the beer were truly German, not for the flavor's sake. I will agree with you about the cascade or any other really citrusy american hop being used to make a helles or any other German beir for that matter. I isn't appropriate for the style, but sometimes you find yourself in a bind and have to use what you have on hand. I don't go on here that much anymore and check all of my recipes to make sure that they are acuate to what I am doing now. I have been using Beer Tools Pro for over a year and have not frequented the website. I will update this recipe today though.
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