Brewing Water Advice

[Schlenkerla]

Guess What....

We are doing this!!!!!!

I believe 100 cans of BMC will be sacrificed for the beer Gods :rockin:

BMC Imperial Pilsner

A ProMash Recipe Report

Recipe Specifics
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Batch Size (Gal): 5.50 Wort Size (Gal): 5.50
Total Grain (Lbs): 17.00
Anticipated OG: 1.080 Plato: 19.30
Anticipated SRM: 4.5
Anticipated IBU: 73.1
Brewhouse Efficiency: 68 %
Wort Boil Time: 90 Minutes


Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
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100.0 17.00 lbs. Pilsener Germany 1.038 2

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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1.00 oz. Sterling Pellet 7.80 33.4 90 min.
1.00 oz. Sterling Pellet 7.80 27.2 45 min.
1.00 oz. Sterling Pellet 7.80 8.1 15 min.
1.00 oz. Saazer Pellet 3.00 2.3 10 min.
1.00 oz. Saazer Pellet 3.00 1.9 1 min.


Extras

Amount Name Type Time
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0.20 Oz Irish Moss Fining 15 Min.(boil)


Yeast
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Fermentus S-23 Saflager S-23


Mash Schedule
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Mash Name:

Total Grain Lbs: 17.00
Total Water Qts: 21.25 - Before Additional Infusions
Total Water Gal: 5.31 - Before Additional Infusions

Tun Thermal Mass: 0.00
Grain Temp: 80.00 F


Step Rest Start Stop Heat Infuse Infuse Infuse
Step Name Time Time Temp Temp Type Temp Amount Ratio
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Step 1 3 15 133 128 Infuse 141 21.25 1.25
Step 2 5 90 148 143 Infuse 210 7.95 1.72
Mash Out 5 10 152 152 Infuse 175 12.76 2.47


Total Water Qts: 41.96 - After Additional Infusions
Total Water Gal: 10.49 - After Additional Infusions
Total Mash Volume Gal: 11.85 - After Additional Infusions

All temperature measurements are degrees Fahrenheit.
All infusion amounts are in Quarts.
All infusion ratios are Quarts/Lbs.


Notes
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Use Bud, Milller, Coors as Mash & Sparge Water.....



Batch Sparge....



4 Packs of yeast S-23

 

[Danek]

Hooray! :rockin: :cross:

 

[Lothar]

Awesome.

Let us know how this goes. Groovy Experiment.

 

[WBC]

Step away from the boiler!

 

[Schlenkerla]

Well - We did it.

We heated up the BMC to about 175F then let it cool before mashing in with it. No joking or sarcasm, it smelled like piss.

The pH was about 4.2-4.4 or so after doughing with 17lbs of pilsner the pH was about 5.2! :rockin:

It smellled like somebody pissed in the mash!! It had a stale beer, piss, and sweet malto-meal aroma for about 90 minutes.

We then dumped another 50 cans or so (~5 gallons) of BMC got that up to 175F. Numb to the smell and due to half a mini-keg of Heine in me.

Lautered & Sparged. We acheived 78% mash efficiency. :rockin:


Then we boiled it for 90 minutes so we would cook-off all traces of DMS.

We pitched about 5 packs Saflager-23. It had a slow start but is cranking away now.

I got a lot pictures. I'll post them in the next few days.

 

[timgman]

OMG I NEED to see some pics. the more the better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

did the smell subside after the boil?

 

[Schlenkerla]

My Homebrew Club

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Mash Liquid

After Doughing in...

Brewing Water
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[Schlenkerla]

Starting the first pour for heating the liquor tank. Perfect Pour 1

Perfect Pour 2

Perfect Pour 3

Perfect Pour 4

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[Schlenkerla]

The boil and yes its easier to boil over when brewing with beer...

Filling a Better Bottle

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[Revvy]

WOW....I forgot all about this experiment.

Cool!

 

[Schlenkerla]

Topping Off....




Yes - I was feeling no pain!!!

 

[Schlenkerla]

Gee - No sarcasm yet? I am so disappointed in you guys!!

 

[WBC]

I see it as a problem with too much spare time. I have enough problems making good beer and this does sound extreme and I have plenty of time but would not bother with this nonsense.

 

[jcarson83]

Sounds like a good time even if it doesn't turn out good. Pilsner was probably a good choice though.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Sounds like a good time even if it doesn't turn out good. Pilsner was probably a good choice though.

It was a good time. This was a homebrew club activity. We drank a bunch of good beer while morphing swill into something that is hopefully tasty and quite drinkable.

Its definitely not practical, its all for novelty and camaraderie's sake. A dozen of us got together pitched in $5 bucks and brought the cheapest 12er of swill that money could buy and of course something good to drink from our home brew stash. Then had at it...

We had pizza delivered too. It was all in good fun to say the least.

 

[Danek]

I see it as a problem with too much spare time. I have enough problems making good beer and this does sound extreme and I have plenty of time but would not bother with this.

Yeah, same here. But I'm reading this at work, and I am amused as hell that somewhere there are people attempting to turn sh|te beer into beer. I'm really looking forward to finding out how this turns out.

 

[Memorex88]

I love this project! Looking forward to the results

 

[Schlenkerla]

Shockingly, this beer was AWESOME!

Made from miller lite, bud lite, natural light, milwaukee's bests, bush light.

It had a nice balance of malt & hops. I couldn't believe that it was that drinkable.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f13/brewing-water-advice-70779/index4.html#post965373

 

[ScottyT]

Amazing...

I can't believe it is even drinkable, let alone good!

Bravo for the mad scientists!

 

[Boondoggie]

Isn't there a limit to what you can expect a liquid to hold in solution? It seems that you'd reach saturation and the "water" just wouldn't hold your new ingrediants in solution, so they'd settle out.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Isn't there a limit to what you can expect a liquid to hold in solution? It seems that you'd reach saturation and the "water" just wouldn't hold your new ingrediants in solution, so they'd settle out.

You are thinking of solubility. We hit the OGs.

 

[LandofOZ]

sound fun, but funner yet, DRINK the beer ! boil the water !, mantra , mantra

 

[Schlenkerla]

sound fun, but funner yet, DRINK the beer ! boil the water !, mantra , mantra

This is the water, its just been treated for brewing!!!

 

[dragon99]

Shockingly, this beer was AWESOME!

Made from miller lite, bud lite, natural light, milwaukee's bests, bush light.

It had a nice balance of malt & hops. I couldn't believe that it was that drinkable.

Further proof of, RDWHAHB. All the negative comments before and in the end its still homebrew. Although this does create problems for the "Garbage in=Garbage out" theory...

Congratulations on pushing the boundaries of brewing madness!

 

[Danek]

Great stuff! Any chance of a picture of the end product?

 

[Schlenkerla]

Great stuff! Any chance of a picture of the end product?

I'll get one for you.

 

[pizzaman]

that's awesome...

 

[Schlenkerla]

This reminds me that I need to get a picture of this stuff in a pils glass.

 

[MgMt_Home_Brew]

Yeah lets see a pic!

 

[pizzaman]

Here ya go:

(no offense intended towards your brew or the idea, I actually may try this one day)