Cascade Premium Lager

grogmonster · Post by **grogmonster** » Tuesday Oct 10, 2006 8:53 pm

Can anyone help me get close to brewing a beer as nice as this one ?

Any help with a recipe or two would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Tuesday Oct 10, 2006 9:44 pm

For a kit brew this one is pretty close:

Black Rock dry lager
Brewcraft #60 german lager kit
ldme 400gm
saflager yeast
final volume 22 litres

Really easy and comes up trumps

grogmonster · Post by **grogmonster** » Tuesday Oct 10, 2006 10:54 pm

Thanks Lethaldog

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Tuesday Oct 10, 2006 11:34 pm

No probs m8

NickMoore · Post by **NickMoore** » Wednesday Oct 11, 2006 10:47 am

this from G&G site ...

Cascade Premium Lager

Coopers Pilsener
1 Kg Light Malt Extract
Hallertau Pellets 20 x 20

rwh · Post by **rwh** » Wednesday Oct 11, 2006 10:59 am

NickMoore wrote:Hallertau Pellets 20 x 20

What's 20x20 mean? 20g at 20mins?

NickMoore · Post by **NickMoore** » Wednesday Oct 11, 2006 11:02 am

again from the GG site ...

Hops
The 20 x 20 method of using hops will give you a more authentic hop flavour and aroma. Here is how it's done:
Boil 20g hops in 1 litre of water for 10 to 15 minutes. Turn off the heat, add 20g more hops, put the lid on the
pot and allow to soak for 2 to 3 minutes. Strain this into the brew. The boiled hops will give you bitterness and
the soak will bring out the aroma and flavour of the hops.

rwh · Post by **rwh** » Wednesday Oct 11, 2006 11:05 am

Interesting idea boiling hops in plain water. I suppose your extraction efficiency would be up, but I thought it was necessary to boil the hops with some malt in order to extract the right compounds.

lethaldog · Post by **lethaldog** » Wednesday Oct 11, 2006 5:10 pm

rwh wrote:Interesting idea boiling hops in plain water. I suppose your extraction efficiency would be up, but I thought it was necessary to boil the hops with some malt in order to extract the right compounds.

I dont know but before i started doing larger boils i used to boil hops in just water and they were fine

grogmonster · Post by **grogmonster** » Wednesday Oct 11, 2006 8:44 pm

thanks everyone , i will let you know how i go

nwbarnes · Post by **nwbarnes** » Sunday Oct 22, 2006 9:33 pm

Hi all,

Recently did a Cascade Brewery tour, and they were very forthcoming with the recipe for the Lager!
For the All-Grainers:

It's 100% Pale Malt
Pride of Ringwood for bittering (to around 20 IBUs)
Hersbrucker for flavour/aroma
And they use their in-house Lager yeast....so maybe a good sub would be SAF S-23 (well that's what I used) or maybe a Bohemian Lager yeast(???)

And there you have it!

Cheers

blandy · Post by **blandy** » Monday Oct 23, 2006 8:01 am

Sounds great!

Maybe I'll wait till the winter, though. As for the yeast, I'm sure the SAF will work fine, but G&G will probably be able to duggest something even better from the wYeast range.

nwbarnes · Post by **nwbarnes** » Wednesday Nov 01, 2006 8:11 pm

Hi again all,

just tried the beer I made from the recipe above, used 15g POR for 60 mins, 15g Hersbrucker for 30 mins, and 15g Hersbrucker at flameout.

Has come up absolutely brilliantly! Slightly more hoppy than the real Cascade Premium but I'll have another go next winter, with just the one late hop addition

In the meantime I'll try it with the same recipe, but as an ale. Maybe use a US-56, and mash nice and low (around 64ÂºC)....hmmmm!

Will let you know how it goes!!