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[CaptRon]

Hey guys,I'm wanting to brew up a Kolsch soon. I've never brewed a Kolsch, so I checked with a buddy who gave me the recipe below so I thought I would check with ya'll on it and get some advice and pointers:‎9.5 lbs Kolsch Malt 9.5 lbs. German Pils malt3 oz. acidulated4 oz. melanoidinRO water and treat with 1/2 tsp calcium chloride2/3 tsp gypsumHops:‎1 or 2 oz. French Strisselspalt Hops at First Wort (5-10 IBU)2 oz. Tettnanger hops for 60 min boil (18-19 IBU)Wyeast 2565 Kolsch Mash 148 for 30 min...raise to 158 for 45 minutes...mash out at 168 for 10 minutes. Boil 90 minutes. SG 1.050, IBU 23 - 29.So, what do you guys think about that? Would you change anything?

[SchwanzBrewer]

How many gallons?

[CaptRon]

How many gallons?

2 Just kidding, 10 gallon - might trim it down to 5 for the first run though.

[djinkc]

I make mine with straight Pils malt. I would leave out the melanoidin and probably the acidulated too.

[Big Nake]

I have a recipe on my SITE (7 or 8 recipes down) that is pretty simple. I got this recipe from BryanH who has some great recipes. I have not made this beer in awhile so I have not looked into the proper water composition for a Kolsch. That said, this beer came out very tasty. The original recipe called for Mt. Hood but I happened to have Spalt and thought they would be nice.

[HVB]

Ken, you are killing me! I could use that right now

[Big Nake]

Ken, you are killing me! I could use that right now

Drez, think about how good it will be when you get home. Cheers!

[Humperdink]

I'd leave out the melanoidin malt myself. If you can't get a hold of the kolsch malt (I think the only place I've seen it is NB) then just use pils malt in it's place. Sometimes i like to add a smidgen of wheat in there, but mainly this is a pils malt or similar grain bill. I'm reading the style book on kolsch again right now and I'm thinking about making a hopfenbier, the predecessor to today's kolsch. I already have the starter all made up for 6 of the 12 gallons and K-97 for the other 6 gallons. Too bad it's gonna be so hot this weekend. I'll still probably brew though.

[CaptRon]

I'd leave out the melanoidin malt myself. If you can't get a hold of the kolsch malt (I think the only place I've seen it is NB) then just use pils malt in it's place. Sometimes i like to add a smidgen of wheat in there, but mainly this is a pils malt or similar grain bill. I'm reading the style book on kolsch again right now and I'm thinking about making a hopfenbier, the predecessor to today's kolsch. I already have the starter all made up for 6 of the 12 gallons and K-97 for the other 6 gallons. Too bad it's gonna be so hot this weekend. I'll still probably brew though.

Cool. I've thought about just getting the Kolsch pre-done all grain kit from NB and just doing that for my first Kolsch. Yeah man, going to be a scorcher this weekend. 91 tomorrow - Going to the A's game. Luckily it is a 6:05pm game so I wont have to sit there and cook in the stands. I'd still brew too, but I got other plans this weekend. As long as you have temp control, brewing on hot days makes no difference. I just go all ghetto and use a tub of water and ice bottles as needed. Seems to work well. I might try my hand at a Lager one of these days using this method.