Good PM Pilsener recipe

[rainingbullets]

Hi yall

I have here a 2# bag of "light" DME that was given to me by the guy I bought my brew kit off of.

Since I spent a few months this summer in Prague, I'm thinking I could use this DME to brew a delicious pilsener to remember the good times abroad.

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good partial mash recipe for a pilsener using DME.

Any help appreciated. Thanks!

 

[philrose]

I'd save the "plain" dme for other beers with two row as the base grain or yeast starters.

lots of the big brew shops (northern brewer, b3, austin etc) sell pilsen LME, which would work better for what you want to do there.

 

[rainingbullets]

I'd save the "plain" dme for other beers with two row as the base grain or yeast starters.

lots of the big brew shops (northern brewer, b3, austin etc) sell pilsen LME, which would work better for what you want to do there.

That's what I thought. I'd like to use this stuff for something rather than having it just sit around.

The ants at the picnic for my pilsen idea is I won't be able to get proper fermenting temperatures anyway, considering the absence of an extra fridge.

Is there any type of ale I can use this DME for?

 

[philrose]

how about a cream ale? mimic an american lager with a ale yeast and some dme.

or biermuncher's centennial blonde or something similar.

 

[rainingbullets]

how about a cream ale? mimic an american lager with a ale yeast and some dme.

or biermuncher's centennial blonde or something similar.

Hmm A cream ale certainly sounds worth a shot. Here's a few recipes I found:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/honey-cream-ale-recipe-s-62441/

Cheesefood's recipe:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/caramel-cream-ale-recipe-question-9630/

I also found a recipe in a book I have:

Type:California Common

4# Ironmaster imperial pale ale kit
2# light DME
0.5 oz cascade flavoring
0.5 willamette aroma
Yeastlab California lager yeast
corn sugar priming

O.G. 1.044-1.049
F.G. 1.011-1.016

I'm leaning more towards the cream ale idea, considering it's not a kit...

Input/suggestions?

 

[Yooper]

I've only done one of those recipes, the caramel cream ale.

That's fine if it's what you want, but it isn't a "cream ale". A cream ale is a lightly hopped easy drinking beer- if you've ever had Genesse Cream Ale, that's the style. That caramel cream recipe is for a very, very sweet candy-like beer. A dessert beer, not a "cream ale". Some people love it, though. (I personally detested it- it tastes like cream soda pop with beer poured into it)

It's up to you to decide what you want to make, I'm just mentioning that it's not a cream ale in the category sense of the word.

Edit- I saw that maybe you'd do a California Common. I don't know what the first ingredient is- I never heard of that. But I think cascade and willamette are out of place in a CC. I'd either use my recipe, or Jamil's if you're interested in making a good CC.

 

[Yooper]

You know, I was just thinking about helping you come up with some ideas for your recipe. I know there are many, many recipes floating around on the internet. Some are very good, some are very bad. Not that our recipes are any better than anybody else's, but we require that only tested and proven recipes are posted in our database. That might be a good place to start.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f82/

 

[rainingbullets]

I've only done one of those recipes, the caramel cream ale.

That's fine if it's what you want, but it isn't a "cream ale". A cream ale is a lightly hopped easy drinking beer- if you've ever had Genesse Cream Ale, that's the style. That caramel cream recipe is for a very, very sweet candy-like beer. A dessert beer, not a "cream ale". Some people love it, though. (I personally detested it- it tastes like cream soda pop with beer poured into it)

It's up to you to decide what you want to make, I'm just mentioning that it's not a cream ale in the category sense of the word.

Edit- I saw that maybe you'd do a California Common. I don't know what the first ingredient is- I never heard of that. But I think cascade and willamette are out of place in a CC. I'd either use my recipe, or Jamil's if you're interested in making a good CC.

Thanks Yoop. I think I'll steer away from the CC recipe, considering I've never heard of that kit either...let alone I have no idea if the HBS carries it.

I'm having second thoughts about a cream ale too. Although I've never tried one, I'm not sure if I would very much enjoy a brew tasting like cream soda.

I found your dead guy clone:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/dead-guy-clone-extract-ag-see-note-25902/

This one seems much more solid. (I have actually had "dead guy" before)

I have a question tho...

Is the Irish moss added to the boil or is it steeped at the end?

 

[philrose]

irish moss goes in at about 15 minutes to go. same place where you'd add late addition hops generally