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Created page with "'''<big>By Arthur Olcot</big>''' Recipe is part of Recipe Index '''BJCP 2021 Style - 32A Classic Style Smoked Beer''' '' Smoked Helles '' Around a year ago I purchased on a complete whim 1kg of smoked beechwood malt. Not entirely sure why as I’m not really a huge lover of smoked beers! Anyway, after it being sat around for a few months the time came to actually brew something with it. This recipe is a simple smoked Helles with a light smoke to the aroma and fla..."

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'''<big>By Arthur Olcot</big>'''

Recipe is part of [[Recipe Index]]

'''BJCP 2021 Style - 32A Classic Style Smoked Beer'''

'' Smoked Helles ''

Around a year ago I purchased on a complete whim 1kg of smoked beechwood malt. Not entirely sure why as I’m not really a huge lover of smoked beers! Anyway, after it being sat around for a few months the time came to actually brew something with it. This recipe is a simple smoked Helles with a light smoke to the aroma and flavour, so it is a good gateway beer into the world of smoke beers. I did a single infusion mash but a decoction could take this to another level

== Awards ==
''' Scottish National Homebrew Competition 2024 (Edinburgh) '''

2nd - Seasonal, Smoked and Wood Beer

== Measures ==
* IBU 23
* ABV 5%
* OG 1.045
* FG 1.0075
* EBC 8
* Batch size 19 litres

== Ingredients ==

=== Water ===
* Ca2+ 52; Mg2+ 7; Na+ 25; Cl- 99; SO42- 70; HCO3- 0
* 5.3pH using around 3.5ml of lactic acid to adjust
* I used distilled water as a base and added salts to get to the profile.

=== Malt ===
* 68.2% — Crisp Europils Malt — Grain — 3.4 EBC
* 19.5% — Smoked (Beech) — Grain — 10 EBC
* 9.8% — Dingemans Munich — Grain — 10.8 EBC
* 2.5% — Simpsons Dextrin Malt — Grain — 1.5 EBC

=== Hops ===
* 20 g (19 IBU) — Perle 8% — First Wort
* 15 g (5 IBU) — Perle 8% — Boil — 10 min
* 15 g — Perle 8% — Boil — 0 min

=== Yeast ===
* White Labs WLP830 German Lager - 2.5L starter

== Process ==
=== Mash ===
* 60mins at 66 degrees

=== Boil ===
* 60 minute boil

=== Ferment ===
* Fermented at 12 degrees for a few days, ramping to 16degrees when fermentation tailed off.
* Held for a few days until no further sign of activity.
* Cold crashed for a couple of days then transferred to keg. Lager for at least 4 weeks

=== Serving ===
* Final beer carbonated to around 2.5 vols.

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