best malz pilsen?

[tchuklobrau]

I just got a 55lb bag of this as the $ was right(my 1st larg grain purchase i love ag). This particular brand of malt is not in promash yet. Does anyone know the expected ppg sg so i can plug this into promash? is it 1.038 like most other german pils malts?

 

[SpanishCastleAle]

I use 1.037. Expect a ton of stuff in your vorlauf and lots of break...at least that's my experience with it.

 

[tchuklobrau]

awesome ty

 

[Lenny2884]

This is a great malt. I've used it several times now and have noticed that the beers I use it in tend to attenuate further than using 2row. Just used it in a pale ale in which I usually use 2row for and mashed at 153 as I normally do. The beer with 2row finishes at 1.012 - 1.013 and with the pils it attenuated down to 1.010. Must be the higher diastatic power of the pilsner malt that gives it the couple extra points of attenuation. Just my experience with this malt.

 

[SpanishCastleAle]

If it was American 2-row then it would have higher DP than Pils but if it was UK 2-row it would be less.

 

[Lenny2884]

Thats not what I've experienced. Used it on 5 occasions now and it has attenuated further than 2row in each case. My local brewpub uses this malt as well and I asked the brewer about it and he said he experiences the same thing. He counteracts this by mashing a degree or two higher.

 

[SpanishCastleAle]

I wasn't saying it didn't attenuate more...just that the DP of American 2-row is generally higher than continental Pils which is generally higher than UK Pale Ale.

I don't think DP correlates to fermentability that well but to be honest I'm not sure there's no correlation at all. I don't experience WAY less fermentability with UK Pale Ale vs. US Pale Ale but UK Pale Ale has way less DP than US. Look at the DP of some Maris Otter, it's like ~50. That's pretty low but I have no problem making a very fermentable wort with it.