Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Pilsner yeast arrives!

Our very good friend and beer expert Honza Suran from Pivovarsky Dum in Prague sent us a wee package this week. A new shipment, ok, it's only half a kilo, of lager yeast for our very own Sunburst Pilsner, which we'll be brewing on Friday into FV4.
I'll have to do a little bit of TLC on the yeast, which is pressed and chilled at the moment. Not quite ready yet to do battle with those scrumptious malt sugars in the wort and work its magic by turning them into CO2 and alcohol - with the right flavour, of course - so that's tomorrow's task: put the yeast through a mini-brew of 10 litres to get it into the right condition for a brew of 5,000 litres!
But in the meantime, thanks Honza! Diky moc Panovi!
Na Zdravi,
Ken

2 comments:

  1. Will you be doing a decoction mash for the Pils, or are you of the school of thought that's it's not necessary with modern malt?

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  2. Hi Barm,
    good point, though we can only do infusion mashes here, so no decoction here. Our malt for the pilsner will be Flagon Lager, but it has enough modification, ie the starches have been modified by the germination process from hard steely starch to crumbly soluble starch - to allow an infusion single temp mash. 67c in our case.cheers ken

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