Weasel Breweries™
Recipes:
Pearl Harbor Pilsner™
New
and Improved!
Back Label
Text:
Slanty-eyed yellow devils beware! This is American Beer! This
ain't none of yer commie gook rice crap! Yeah! This one's made with
top flight Kraut barley and hops, Pollack yeast, and the best water
those frog bastards up in Canada can put in a bottle! I mean, who
the hell won the damn war anyway? Why don't you just get yer butts
on back to Russia where you belong, you sneak-attackin, bomb-droppin,
kamikaze'in, raw fish-eatin, irradiated yeller fiends! Brewed on
7 December 1997, this pilsner is a paranoid, jingoistic Full Metal
Hoopajoop from those xenophobic ol' Monks of Ann Arbor Abbey.
Extract and
partial mash. A solid Czech-style pilsner with a scary label. Makes
5 gallons. Elapsed time: 1.5 hours.
- 5 lbs. Breiss
Light dry malt extract
- 2.5 lbs.
Light Guajillo Honey
- 1 lb. cracked
Crystal Malt
- 0.5 lb. cracked
Victory Malt
- 3 oz. pelleted
Saaz hops (bittering, flavoring)
- 1 oz. pelleted
Hallertau hops (aroma)
- 1 tsp. Irish
Moss (optional)
- 0.5 tsp.
Yeast nutrient (optional)
- 0.5 tsp.
Chillguard (optional)
- 1 package
liquid Czech Pilsner Yeast - Wyeast #2278 Czech Pilsner Yeast
In a 30 liter
stainless steel brew pot, bring 20 liters cold water to a boil.
Meanwhile, add
5 liters cold water to a 20 liter stainless steel sparge pot. Place
specialty grains in muslin or nylon sparging bag and add to water.
Begin heating. When temperature reaches 180 F, turn off heat and
sparge grains for an additional five minutes. Then, remove bag and
squeeze remaining tasty goodness from bag using a collander and
a large bowl. Discard grains.
When brew pot
reaches boil, begin stirring water and add malt extract. Stirring
will prevent the malt extract settling to the bottom of the bot
and burning. Next, add the contents of the sparging pot. Stir a
few more times for good measure. Inhale.
Turn on the
heat and bring the mixture to a boil again. When boiling, the mixture
forms a foam layer which can rise out of the pot and burn on your
stove. Be careful to avoid this. It is messy and difficult to clean.
Boil the wort
for 60 minutes, adding ingredients at the following intervals:
Start of
boil: Bittering hops - 1.5 oz. Saaz
45 minutes:
Flavoring hops - 1.5 oz. Saaz, Irish Moss, Yeast nutrient
55 minutes:
Aroma hops - 1.0 oz. Hallertau
60 minutes:
Stop boil.
Cool the wort
to 85 F or lower before adding yeast. Cool the wort as quickly as
possible to prevent infection. Transfer wort to primary fermenter.
Leave primary fermenter at approximately 70F for 12 hours, then
lower temperature to primary fermentation temperature of 54 F. After
fermentation subsides, approximately 7 to 10 days later, raise temperature
to diacetyl rest temp. of 60 F.
After diacetyl
rest, lagers generally require no secondary fermentation, due to
highly flocculant nature of yeast. Commence bottling. After bottling,
lager bottled Pearl Harbor Pilsner at 34 F for at least two months.
Age to taste. (Weasel Breweries recommends a minimum of two months.
More is often better.)
1st brewing
7 December 1997.
2nd brewing 1 May 1999.
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