Award Winning Lager Recipe! Smells Lagery - Helles Exportbier (Dortmunder)

Best of Show Beer from the 2023 UK National Homebrew Competition - Recipe, Brewing Process and more...
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[@finnroohomebrewing]

Also want to say to all the punters. How this beer received such a high mark and award is down to Richards brewing process and attention to detail. It's an outstanding result. Well done Richard 😎👍

[@ReadingTim88]

I was hoping this video would be coming soon 👍

[@jfrrodway8235]

Thank you for sharing and congratulations. Export style lager is absolutely my favorite style of beer and I seek it out all over the world. Just got back from Spain. Pretty much all Spanish beer is Export style and they got damn good taste.

[@BrewabitRick]

Congratulations nice work obviously well deserved cheers 👍🍻

[@DudesBrews]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@finnroohomebrewing]

Absolutely, outstanding result mate 😎👍

[@johng4503]

Congratulations! Looking forward to brewing your award-winning recipe. Thank you for sharing!🍻

[@havarfjerdingen1695]

Fantastic! Congratulation. Looks amazing, both the medals and the beer

[@DudesBrews]

Thank you very much!

[@barrycranston5122]

Well done. 🍻

[@daviegraham4483]

Excellent video, congratulations on the award. I have just tried an Italian Pilsner with Saphir, came out great

[@mattsawdy9747]

Nice job 👍

[@hc8714]

Congrats!

[@robbrasmussen7568]

Great job on a great beer on a great channel!!! Thanks for all you do. Can’t wait to try Saphir in my next lager. 🍻

[@DudesBrews]

Thanks for the support! 👍🏻🍻

[@gute1970]

Congrats! Looking forward to give this recipe a go, thanks for sharing. Cheers!

[@thomasnoren]

Congrats Tricky👍

[@hughesbrews8062]

Well done mate, I shall look forward to trying this recipe at some point this year!

[@thomash3716]

Congratulations! 🙌🙌🙌Have to try this one day....

[@DudesBrews]

You should! 🍻

[@gazhugs]

Congrats again Richard and thanks for sharing the recipe, will certainly give it a brew at some point this year...

[@woodbinefandango]

Result! Good timing too as I ordered some pilsner malt two days ago and bizarrely picked out the dortmunder recipe from the bible for my next brew. I'll be tweaking my water additions a wee bit after seeing this though so thanks.

[@alanhall6625]

Congratulations Richard I’ve got my first ever lager on the go now it’s a German Pilsner I used weyermann barke Pilsner malt and carapils hopped it with hallertau tradition and mittelfrue and direct pitched with WLP830 yeast but after watching your vlog I think I’ve probably under pitched it but hey ho I’ll just have to see what happens hopefully it’ll be drinkable. Cheers 👍🍺

[@willschmit436]

I recently discovered that one of our LHBSs sells CO2 at half the price of the welding supply - I was wandering around the store, and felt guilty about not buying something. I bought 4 pounds of Weyerman floor malted pilsner (I brew 2.5 gallon batches) and brewed up a simple beer. It was remarkable. I look forward to halving your recipe (using Beersmith3) and brewing it. Considering my experience with the floor malted pilsner, how could it be bad?...

[@Dts1953]

Well done Richard you are a star mate👍 I struggle with lagers but as it happens I brewed s German Pilsner at the beginning of February and that’s been bottled and is now lagering. . I need to work on my water profile but I did go for a higher sulphate content in the last one but it was a bit of guesswork really. 😂

[@DudesBrews]

Thanks mate, lagers can be a fickle beast I’ve had plenty of not so successful attempts before this!

[@Eagle1846ytown]

Is floor malted boho pils the key to brewing a German lager with that German taste? I’ve been trying to get that taste forever but never tried floor malted boho pils.

[@danielpreston5044]

Firsly thanks so much for sharing this recipe! Your channel has been such a great source of homebrewing pointers and help. You mentioned that you fermented under pressure and I was wondering what sort of PSI you went for with the 2124? Apologies for what is probably a fairly daft question

[@DudesBrews]

Thanks very much for your feedback and thats not a silly question at all just something I forgot to mention! I usually run lagers at 8-10psi but sometimes up to 15 if I want to really push things along and generate more natural carbonation

[@donmac5926]

Hi, I have recently purchased this kit from the MM and looking forward to brewing it, very much. My question is, as I only ever use the "no chill cube" method, can I bypass the hopstand and do a dry hop instead? Any issues you can forsee? Congrats on the award, by the way.

[@DudesBrews]

Dry Hop could potentially give a fairly different result (not necessarily bad), I would just put the hops in at flameout using bags so you can remove them and do a shorter stand due to higher temp maybe 10 mins, it will still be plenty hot enough to sanitise the cube if you transfer after that

[@donmac5926]

That's great info. Thanks so much for your swift reply. Really appreciate it.

[@fdk7014]

Congratulations! I've been brewing a few lagers myself lately but I don't think any of them would have a chance to get a medal

[@patrickglaser1560]

Getting the water right really helps replicate a beer to style.

[@davec4955]

Congratulations Richard a great job ! If it ain't broke don't fix it BUT ! Have you thought about trying it with the new Nova lager yeast ? 🍻

[@DudesBrews]

Cheers Dave! Well it just so happens that I got a couple of packs of Nova in my winners goodie bag so its a distinct possibility….

[@richardgale9005]

4.6 kg (95.8%) - Weyermann Floor-Malted Bohemian Pilsner - Grain - 2.5 EBC is wrong ? should be EBC: 5

[@DudesBrews]

well spotted that number is too low, but the range given by Weyermann is 3-5 EBC so there is variability between batches, 5 might be too high as well, probably best to split the difference and enter it as 4 on brewfather!

[@liammcdevitt3303]

Do you decant your starters or pour it all in? 👍🏻 Brewing this as we speak

[@DudesBrews]

If I have left them long enough to settle out I will pour off most of the wort before pitching but I don’t worry about it too much if not

[@liammcdevitt3303]

@@DudesBrews thanks pal

[@liammcdevitt3303]

Just bought all the ingredients for this brew but could only get weyermann bohemian (not floor malted). Any issues with that?

[@DudesBrews]

No should be great, hope the brew goes well for you! 🍻👍🏻

[@liammcdevitt3303]

Hi Tricky, mine is still bubbling out of the spuding valve. Its on its last day of the profile at 20c. Would you leave it at that temp for another day or 2 or reduce temp or what? Thanks

[@DudesBrews]

Check gravity readings and hold at 20 until those are stable 👍🏻

[@liammcdevitt3303]

@@DudesBrews Cheers

[@chrisnewton9788]

Congratulations, looks a cracking beer. I've always considered entering a few of mine to a comp, but what puts me off, is they always say has to be bottle conditioned. To me that means carbonating with yeast and priming sugar. You said you carbonated with CO2 so do they just mean in a bottle?

[@DudesBrews]

Thanks Chris! As far as I know all the BJCP comps accept any method for carbonation, mine were force carbed and bottled from keg using an iTap

[@chrisnewton9788]

@@DudesBrews great thanks for the info, might give it a try soon. Pretty daunting though, sending in a beer I think I've done a great job on for it to get trashed by the by the tasting experts

[@DudesBrews]

@@chrisnewton9788 go for it, not gonna lie it can be a bit demoralising getting negative feedback but in the long run it’s a great way to improve your brewing 👍🏻🍻

[@burnsironwork]

Congratulations! only a question of time. My question is when bottling lagers I find it an impossible task with the Itap. It foams up and I have to wait so long, I give up. I have tried all variables. I guess for the odd bottle it might be worth it. How do you get on?

[@DudesBrews]

It seems to work fine for me, keg is at 5c and I sometimes turn up the pressure a bit to help keep the foam down but other than that just go steady and it should be ok

[@burnsironwork]

@@DudesBrews Thanks . I have a keezer now and I gave it another go from about 6c and it worked a treat. bottling cold certainly helps!

[@garyballared2077]

poser lol

[@DudesBrews]

🥇 🕺🏻🤣

[@AndrewLynch9]

You can hear Tricky coming now.... ching ching ching hahaha

[@DudesBrews]

Carrying some hardware these days 🤣