Billy Bob Pilsner - How to Brew - Beer Recipe - BeerCo

Billy Bob Pilsner - How to Brew - Beer Recipe - BeerCo

Dermott Dowling
The outlaws are coming to town! Heck, I better get my brewin' on fast and my sis in law husband Billy aka "Billy Bob" wants to learn how to brew like a pro!  How hard is this homebrewing thing Dermott? Can we brew a beer, fix a fort, mow the lawns, pick some apples, cover some trees and mind 5 crazy cousins all on a Saturday arvo while Mrs D and Mrs K hit the shops?" Argh, no Billy Bob, but we can brew a beer, feed some kids, make some lunch and have some fun.  Just chill on fixing forts, mowing lawns, covering fruit trees, it can all wait its brewtime!" Hmmm, what do we have in the freezer that might make a great summer Pilsner? Oh, I know whole cone Riwaka NZ Hops - one of my all time favourite hops - shame its such a poor grower as it tastes sublime in a pilsner and whole cone hops give that rounded soft subtle flavour we are looking for a bloke who likes to drink mass produced low priced lager.  What else do we have here? Oh, yeah! Enigma Whole Cone AU Hops - another one of my all time favourite Pilsner hops featured in an earlier BeerCo recipe - Codebreaker Pilsner.  Righto where is "Billy Bob"? Time to mill some malt man and get our brewing on...

Vital Stats

Batch & Boil

  • Brewed on: 14-Jan-2017
  • Batch Size  21.0 L
  • Boil Time  90 mins

Properties

  • OG 1.054
  • FG 1.016
  • IBU 39
  • AB V5.0%
  • Color 3 SRM
  • Balance     Bitter

Gladfield Malt Bill

Amount

Fermentable

Maltster

Use

PPG

Color
4.25 kg
Pilsner Malt 		Gladfield Mash 38 1 °L
0.75 kg
Vienna Malt 		Gladfield Mash 37 4 °L
0.2 kg
Sour Grapes Acidulated Malt 		Gladfield Boil 27 3 °L

Hops

Amount

Hop

Time

Use

Form

AA
100 gm Riwaka Cones NZ Hops 5 min Boil Whole Cones 4.9%
75 gm Enigma AU Hops 5 min Boil Whole Cones 17.1%
Billy Bob adding a S#$t Tone of Whole Cone Riwaka and Enigma Hops 5 minutes from flameout!

Yeast

Name

Lab/Product

Attenuation
Fermentis Saflager S-23 Dried Yeast 2 x 11g sachets You could use the following Liquid GigaYeast Fermentis GigaYeast 70% 77% / 76%  / 81% Dry

Mash

  • Infusion Single Step Mash @68 C for body

Fermentation

  • Pitched Yeast @14C dropped to 10-12C on temp controller and let it ferment out over 2 weeks at around 11C before racking to a glass carboy for lagering
  • Lagered in fridge @2C for further 3 weeks before bottling to take some Billy Bobs across the dutch to nuclear free Moo Zeeland for Billy Bob to enjoy in late February.
  • Bottled on: 19-Feb-2017
  • Best after: 31-March-2017 but I have to admit its getting knocked over very fast as it tastes sublime :-)
Cheers #brewhappy