anyone recommend a Good lager recipe???

[Frothy]

Hi

I just aquired a fridge from my gran and fancy having a go at some lager. I'd ask if anyone kindly has any recipes for a basic lager that they would recommend??

I realise that as far as hops go variety and final IBU's are everything so what kind of bitterness should I aim for? I finally figured out the working out the other day for the kettle utilisation etc and it kind of made me realise that how much hops I use in a recipe all depends on the size of my boil kettle (which is 2gal.)

thanks
Matt

[crow_flies]

I'm brewing the holsten pils recipe from John Lanes book now - my first attempt! - will let you know how it goes. I had some problems with the conversion - was a bit low, may have been the malt which was not the freshest. Anyhow I bulked it up with some brewing sugar. Its brewing outside - 12-18c currently - I'll move it to a 2ndry and lager it for a month in the fridge before I bottle it. I can put the recipe up if you like?

I did it cos' my brother-in-law drink nothing but cans of holsten pils, so I'm gonna slip some in a can and see if he notices the difference....

/crowflies

[crow_flies]

Here it is: -

4kg lager malt
250g wheat malt
150g crystal
500g brewing sugar (not the recipe but my conversion went awry)

75g hallertau 1hr
20g goldings at switchoff for 15 mins

mash was supposed to be 40c for 15mins then 50 for 30mins and 66 for 1.5hrs

i think I was a at about 65, so a little on the low side

I used saflager yeast using some of the wort drawn off after an hour

anyhow its looking very healthy albeit for the trub I couldnt get rid of, but hopefully a good spell of cold lagering will help it here.

/crowflies

[mysterio]

I did a Pilsner Urquell clone from clone brews as my first lager and it was excellent. Are you looking for an extract/mini-mash/all-grain recipe?

[Frothy]

ooh I posted this in May
Finally I might actually put my money where my mouth is and make some. Crow Flies that recipe looks ace and I have pretty much all the ingredients thanks Mysterio I'm quite keen on all grain for lagers and I picked up a 20kg sack of flaked maize from a horse feed shop for £5 for the purpose of thinning out the mash. Thanks for the recipe DAAB I hope I thanked you at the time but I can't remember.

I read somewhere that in the past for a lager to be called such it had to be kept lagering/ maturing for a minimum of 6 weeks, this has been more recently reduced to 2 weeks - I guess that commercial lager is such piss now that the consumer whores wouldn't notice anyway. Sorry.... my spite is fueled by the fact that in the bar I'm working in at the moment bottled stella is seen as the best beer available.

Matt
P.S.

[NzDan1]

This pilsner is damn nice!

Bohemian Pilsner

24 litres
5.1kg Pilsner malt
215g german light crystal
215g german vienna
150g Caripils
Mash 65.5 90mins

30g saaz 11.9AA 90mins
12g saaz 15mins
12g sazz 1min

Bohemian lager yeast or munich lager yeast preferred.

[crow_flies]

busy day today - 40pts of (Lanes) Holsten Pils I referred to above to Lager in the fridge.

Here is a sample in the glass after two week primary outside in covered area. The gravity had dropped to around 1008. Start was about 1050.



tastes ok and looks a pretty good colour and clarity. Let see how much it can improve after a month in the fridge...and now on with the Xmas Ale.....