American Light Lager Recipe

Light lager is a category of fairly light colored cold fermented beers that range from low calorie and light flavored to rich and flavorful.
American light lager recipe. My good friend ed decided to brew an american light lager a few weeks ago. The first pale lagers. White labs mexican lager yeast. My base for this recipe isn t an american lager recipe.
This can be achieved by a bittering hops at 60 minutes and that s it. I was inspired by a friend who won best of show with an american lager at a 1 000 entry competition by using a kölsch recipe that came in lighter than he intended. American lager yeast ideal fermentation. 1 oz hallertaur 3 aa yeast 2 vials wlp 840.
It s a kölsch recipe. Lite standard and premium american lagers are similar to the beers brewed by the large macro breweries in america. Standard american beer american light lager homebrew beer recipes and ingredients. Standard american beer american light lager homebrew beer recipes and ingredients.
Name recipes laboratory type alcohol tolerance flocculation attenuation min. English cucumber genovese basil and juniper berry. I know that some of you are already opening your mouths to form the question. Josh weikert aug 27 2017 7 min read.
Corn or rice adjuncts should make up the remaining 40 of the grain bill. 1 oz hallertaur 3 aa flame out. Fermentis safale american ale yeast us 05. The exception here is the munich helles and dortmunder export which i ll talk about separately.
Fermentis saflager german lager yeast w 34 70. American light lager fermentables 3 dme lb pilsen dried malt extract 2 lb rice syrup solids hop additions this recipe calls for only a 30 min boil time to keep ibus as low as possible 30 min. Despite their limited range of flavor these are still great beers. Tips for brewing your own american light lager grain.
The thing that separates the light lagers at least the light american lagers is that they are made with a high percentage of adjuncts which drys them out and makes them so much lighter than lagers from most other countries. The light and fresh lager features three unique ingredients. These three ingredients are added after fermentation creating a unique combination of earthy and herbal notes. You might notice that light lagers are sometimes.
The ibu range is fairly light with an american lager. Save 10 on brewer s friend premium today. Brew your best beer ever. Some people look at the style description of american lagers with their strong flavors are a fault language and simply decide not to make them.
Keep the ibu range at around 8 18. Style profile for an american light lager as are set by the beer judge certification program bjcp style committee are as follows. I simply amended my kölsch recipe to get a reliable and flavorful but still very restrained light lager so that we. Make your best light american lager.
The other styles are typically more malt focused german style lager beers sometimes with more apparent hop character then the american. This will make up around 60 percent of your grain bill. I have a confession to make. The grain bill for an american lager is pretty simple and straightforward.
See notes additives clarifier. Yeasts used in light american lager recipes.