False Dunkel - Mashing in right now!

[Foreigner]

Hey all: Well, I decided to brew today after all. Creativity trumped laziness. Hey, it can happen

2 batches, one mash.

There is a commercial brew I enjoy called headstrong munich lager, which I am not trying to clone (not even close ), but I think it is something of a dunkel, but without all the dunkel. Too dark to be a helles tho.

It's hot here, so they will be done with neutral ale yeast...or maybe a lager yeast at ale temps...Moohahahahahahahahha!

Brew 1 - False munich dunkel

9# pils
1# light Munich
1/8# chocolate
1/8 60L crystal (steeped, not in the mash so as to avoid getting any in the 2nd brew)

1.5 oz Hersbrucker for 60 mins of 90 min boil

Brew 2 - Who knows? - something between a lawnmower and a real beer

6# 2 rox pils
.5# light munich
1/8# chocolate
1# corn sugar

0.25oz 10% target.

I love the smell of mashin in the morning...

Anyone else brewing right now? I've got 1/2 hour to kill before I start to sparge...

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

How ar eyou doing two different beers with 1 mash?

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

Nevermind, I just read your whole post and I'm an idiot. Wish I could brew today

 

[Foreigner]

Some info. This is the first time hand milling my own grain - which was a pain in the ass, btw. I saw all the warnings on here, threw caution to the wind, and did it. I think I got a good crush but it took too damn long. I guessed I would get an efficinecy of 60% in Qbrew just to be safe. You know, better too high than too low I think...well, my efficiency is WAY better than that I overshot my targets a little...I'm guessing its 75-80% Yahoo. So much so that my munich dunkel is more like a bock (maybe not quite) and my lighter one is still going to end up around 5%abv.

I am crash chilling the two in an ice bath right now...they smell and taste great, btw.

 

[Foreigner]

Fermentation is in the explosive stage for the lager yeast, the ale is starting to quiet down a little already