Tasting Notes: Rich malty flavor with just enough bitterness to balance it out. Delicious!

Recipe Type: All Grain
Yeast: WLP830 German Lager
Yeast Starter: 3L
Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter: Nope
Batch Size (Gallons): 5 Gallons
Original Gravity: 1.052
Final Gravity: 1.011
IBU: 24
Boiling Time (Minutes): 90 Minutes
Color: 10-16
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 16 Days @ 50F
Additional Fermentation: None
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 45 Days @ 34F
Tasting Notes: Rich malty flavor with just enough bitterness to balance it out. Delicious!

Grain Bill

– 6 lbs Vienna Malt
– 3 lbs Munich Malt
– 1/2 lb Crystal 40L

Hops

– 1 1/2 oz Hallertauer (4.3%)

Yeast

– WLP830 German Lager

Mash

Single Decoction Mash

– Dough in with 5 1/2 gallons of water to hit 122F and rest for 35 mins
– Pulled a thick decoction just under 8 1/2 quarts
– Boiled decoction for 15 mins and added back to mash to hit 150F, rest for 45 mins
– Sparged with 4 gallons at 170F

Notes

This is my first decoction mash and it turned out awesome! I could not be happier with this beer. It is rich and malty with just enough bitterness to balance it. Beersmith told me that it would only be about 7 SRM but the decoction darkens it quite a bit past that. This is going to be my new house beer.