Lawrence Brewers Guild

Just a quick question for you big time all grain brewers. I am going to brew some lagers this winter with some Moravian pils grain that I picked up cheap from NB awhile ago. I've used this grain to make some lighter ales and weizen beers and have gotten pretty good results with single infusion mash, but for the lager/pilseners, do you think it is worth the extra effort to do a step mash?

I would think this malt is a well modified malt. Do you have any grain information of the grain, protien content, etc? Im betting you will be fine w/ a single infusion. Moravian can be malted by differnet maltsters and depending on the barley variety will determine if your Moravian is the Czech, it could be undermodified which would need a protein rest. If you do not have any malt info. id call NB and double check. But im guessing your malt will do fine w/o a step mash.
As a matter of fact, ive done single infusion using Franco-Belgian, BestMalz, and Wyermann Pilsner malts and have come out crystal clear......hope this helps some....

Thanks Andy, that's just what I was asking. Honestly, I think I let Charlie Papazian creep back into my thoughts. It seems like he wanted to step mash everything that isn't a British ale (and even some of these).

Theres still alot of old timers that had to step mash cuz the malt dictated them into doing so. Thats where the RIMS and HERMS style rigs came from so steps could be done alot easier. But w/ todays malts, single infusion works out great. I actually read something awhile back that said doing a protien rest on a modified malt can actually have a negative impact....but i cant vouch for that info.....

Decoction!! Only way to go.......oh wait.....