Helles Bees

Munich Helles this week. I burned a rubber hose on my wort chiller this week in a most perculiar way.

It's pretty dead here in south Texas. The only things alive during the winter months are weeds and the occasional hovering insect. I think that why I was surprised to see bees.  Yes bees...and they were big honking muthas.

I was at the end of my boil about ready to start chilling the wort and then...they came.  I guess with nothing blooming my wort seemed like a delicate flower ready to be pollinated. I wasn't about to have a couple of bees ruin my wort, so I did what any self respecting beer maker would do.  I grabbed my brewpot and moved with a purpose to save my beer, at all costs. Hmmm, what's that smell?  It nothing. I have to save my beer!

The hose from the exit side of the wort chiller melted in half. Luckily, it didn't melt on me. No real harm done except for about a buck worth of rubber hose. It could have been much worse. The bees could have hurt the beer.


Beer Nerd Stuff: 

Beer Style: 1D Munich Helles
 
Batch Size: 5 Gallons

Grains:

• 8.75 lb Pilsner (1.7 SRM) 

Hops:

• 0.50 oz Hallertauer Hersbrucker [2.80 %] (60 min)
• 0.63 oz Hallertauer [4.50 %] (60 min)
• 0.50 oz Hallertauer Hersbrucker [2.80 %] (30 min)

Yeast:

• Pilsner Urqell (Wyeast Labs #2001)

Misc:

• 14 grams of Gypsum (Mash 60 min)
  
• 6 grams Epsom Salt (Mash 60 min)
  

Mash Type:

• Double Infusion

OG:

• 1.047 SG

Comments:


Good on style. I added a couple of things to try and match the water profile for Munich.