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'''<big>By Ian Cosier</big>'''

'''BJCP 2021 Style 4C Helles Bock'''

This was my favourite brew of 2021. I conditioned it for 10 months as it was initially very hoppy. It was lovely after about 3 months, but if you wanted to drink earlier you might dial down the late hops by 20-30%.

== Awards ==
=== Lager Than Life 2022 (Pillars Brewery, London 5/3/2022) ===
3rd - Best in Show
1st - Strong Lagers

=== Scottish National Home Brew Competition 2022 (Remote judging 02/2022) ===
2nd - Pale Lagers & Wheat Beer

=== Brew Con World Series IV (Hackney Brewery, London 5/11/2021) ===
2nd - German Ales and Lagers

== Measures ==
* IBU 29
* ABV 6.2%
* OG 1.065
* FG 1.013
* EBC 13
* 44.8 litres at end of boil.

== Ingredients ==
=== Water ===
1:4 Sulphate to Chloride ratio
Aim for 75ppm Calcium after the boil.

=== Malt ===
* Weyermann Pilsner, 3 EBC, 7100g, 63.2%
* Weyermann Vienna, 6 EBC, 2340g, 20.8%
* Weyermann Munich I, 14 EBC, 1460g, 13%
* Aromatic malt, 100 EBC, 340g, 3%

=== Hops ===
* 86g Saaz 4.7% AA @ 60 min left of boil
* 23g Northern Brewer 6% AA @ 60 min left of boil
* 22g Saaz 4.7% AA @ 5 min left of boil
* 22g Saaz 4.7% AA @ Steep for 30 min at 80C

=== Yeast ===
Imperial Harvest Yeast #L17

== Process ==
=== Mash ===
Mashed overnight starting at 68C.

If I was just mashing for an hour or so I would probably do a step mash or 66 deg single step.

=== Boil ===
90 minutes

=== Ferment ===
Fermented on yeast cake that was an 8 litre batch of Vienna lager brewed with the Harvest yeast.
Performed a fast ferment profile:
* Ferment at 11C until 50% to terminal gravity (1039), then 12-14C until 75% to terminal gravity (1025), then 15-16.5C until 90% to terminal gravity (1017), then 18C until terminal gravity (1012)

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