Friday 10 March 2017

Munich Helles in 1902

To go with yesterday’s post, here’s one about fat old Dunkles’ slim blond younger brother. Helles.

It’s going to be a compare and contrast exercise. Which is always fun.

Let’s start with OG. 13.52º for Dunkles, 12.35º for Helles. What’s interesting, is that the average ABV of Helles is an eensie weensie bit higher – 4.65% compared to 4.62%. No surprise than that the rate of attenuation is higher for Helles.

Quite a lot more dextrin in the Dunkles: 3.22% to 2.26%. No shock there either, I guess.

Neither that Helles was much paler on average, 9.1 to 30. Though both styles had a difference of about 100% between the palest and darkest examples.

That’s me done. Free day tomorrow. And Abt to drink this evening.


Munich Helles in September 1902
FG OG extract ABV maltose dextrin lactic acid real atten-uation colour
1015.6 12.63 5.64 4.60 2.16 2.16 0.18 55.34 9
1012.5 11.89 4.87 4.60 1.17 2.09 0.16 59 6.5
1015.7 12.35 5.6 4.43 1.9 2.15 0.19 54.66 10
1014.8 12.96 5.52 4.42 1.5 2.42 0.17 54.98 11.6
1012 12.14 4.82 4.80 1.01 2.47 0.14 60.29 7.5
1017.1 13.17 5.99 4.80 1.96 2.51 0.19 54.52 10
1014.8 12.48 5.35 4.69 1.95 2.12 0.19 57.13 12.6
1016.1 12.64 5.72 4.55 1.1 3.23 0.17 54.75 10.6
1010.2 12.23 4.87 5.16 0.99 2.14 0.17 64.27 7.5
1011.4 11.78 4.57 4.71 1.26 1.88 0.18 61.21 8
1015.2 12.33 5.5 4.48 1.72 2.44 0.15 55.39 10
1016.2 11.81 5.6 4.06 2.16 2.09 0.16 52.58 8
1012.4 12.96 5 5.25 1.34 2.16 0.19 61.42 9.6
1014.3 12.81 5.47 4.89 1.95 2.12 0.16 57.3 8.5
1013.2 11.74 5.05 4.43 1.96 1.91 0.14 56.99 8
highest 13.17 5.99 5.25 2.16 3.28 0.19 64.27 12.5
lowest 11.74 4.37 4.06 1.01 1.88 0.14 52.58 6.5
average 12.35 5.27 4.65 1.61 2.26 0.17 57.32 9.1
Source:
Bayerisches Brauer-Journal issue 49, December 1902, page 353.

4 comments:

Oblivious said...

Hi ron

Did you post the OG as Plato?

Ron Pattinson said...

Oblivious,

it's Balling, but same as Plato, really.

Anonymous said...

I like the German beer posts. Any chance we can get some Lets Brew recipes some day from the old beers with adjuncts and such?

Barm said...

I imagine the attenuation these days is much higher but are there other significant differences in modern Helles?