Happy New Year’s Eve from New Zealand

A Světlý Ležák and a Polotmavý

Maybe unexpectedly, well suited to Japanese pickles and such for dinner (and some sake)

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My polotmavé is mighty tasty

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Polotmavé in progress

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I’m very pleased with this Polotmavý/Polotmavé

The excess in the small keg is now a couple of weeks settled and perfectly clear. Not so much like Kellerbier at all anymore. Unsure how long I will bother lagering the main keg. This is drinking wonderfully already.

And it tastes even better after stepping out of the sauna.

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Kellerbier version of my Polotmavý. As always very young and a wee bit yeasty but this is another great brew. Going to be a good beer for Autumn.

I will always brew 25L batches so I can have a small keg of the beer to enjoy while the main keg lagers. This is the way!

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Brewing a Polotmavý today. Never had one so put together a recipe by reading various sources. Double decoction using the schedule from @akrennmair 1870 Vienna Lager. I like taking 2/3 of the mash to 71° to get that residual malty sweetness. All one big experiment with this beer.

You can see the contrast with the much darker mash after the first decoction.

https://beerandbrewing.com/recipe-andreas-krenmairs-traditional-1870s-vienna-lager/

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