Good basic extract lager recipe ...

[Adamsale]

Has anyone got an easy extract recipe for a basic lager now that the colder months are here.???

I am after making one using dry or liquid extract and some good old hops..........


Cheers.

[goq11k_76]

not being a massive extract brewer but preferring fresh worts, any of them go very well

and try the "search" function, type in lager in recipe field, and you will no doubt find hundreds of recipes

[Adamsale]

i have tried that but all you get is replies and not much in the way of recipes....like most topics there are not many recipes on here at all...

[tazman67]

Well...be a bit more selective..heaps of lagers out there..
What do you like..?

[Adamsale]

mexican cerveza style and carlton dry....

[Adamsale]

and a low carb one....how do you make it low carb.???

[goq11k_76]

the country brewer has a low carb range, call your nearest store and ask, most others should have low carb as well, never done it personally so cant give advice. Do you have a home brew shop near yourself, pop on in and look at the range and ask questions, they are more than likely rto give plenty of advice on recipes etc.

[timmy]

Give this one a go - it's a ripper if you like Nelson Sauvin:

http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/vi ... =11&t=7991

It's also very easy.

[Lachy]

If you don't mind using some pre-hopped extract (ie: a kit), I've found both this one works quite well...

1 x Cooper's European Lager (incl. S-189 yeast)
1kg LDME
10g Hallertau @ 10 min
10g Hallertau @ 5 min
10g Hallertau @ flameout
23l

If you like Knappstein, the following comes out reasonably close - maybe sub in a little more Nelson Sauvin at dry hopping if you *really* like the passionfruit flavours to be full-on.

1 x Brewcraft Munich Lager (Cooper's European Lager would probably be fine too)
1kg LDME
25g Nelson Sauvin @ 15 min
Saflager S-23
23l

[Adamsale]

Came up with a recipe in the end, made it, brewed it and bottled it......8 weeks later it won the West Australian Amateur Brewing Championships Pale Lager section...
Not bad for my first go......Sent a bottle to the Australian National Championships thats on this weekend in Canberra.


Fingers crossed.

[melykabeer]

care to share your great recipe?

[warra48]

Good on ya, Adamsale.

During my short period of brewing kits and extract, I never managed to brew a decent lager.

Even now, brewing AG, and with temp control on my fermenting fridge, I managed to make my previous one a drinkable brew, but not one I'd enter in a competition.

My very latest has only been in the bottle about 1½ weeks, so I'm waiting for it to carb up, and hoping for a better result, based on the hydro sample at bottling.

[Adamsale]

0.5KG LDME in 5L boil with
15 gm Saaz at 60
10 gm Saaz at 15
10 gm Saaz at 0

then at flame out add 0.5kg Dextrose and another 0.5kg LDME

Yeast was Saflager S-23

final volume 12L

IBU 17.3 ABV 4.5

how easy is that.!!

[warra48]

If you have a brewing program such as BeerSmith, BeerTools, Promash etc, there are heaps of recipes you an convert from All Grain to Extract. It is not necessary to look solely for an Extract recipe.

All you do is enter the AG recipe as is into your software, and set your brewhouse efficiency to about 75%.
Take a note of the OG in the recipe. Then depending on the software you have, you may need to change the recipe to Extract, and change some other settings as to boil length etc.
Then delete the base grains, usually Pale, Pils, Minich, Vienna etc malts. Substitute with a can of the lightest unhopped liquid extract you can find, and look at the OG your software predicts. You might need to add another can, or alternatively make it up with LDME until the software predicts the same OG as the AG recipe.

Most specialty malts such as Carapils or Carahell can be left as is, as you can steep those.

As for hopping, make up a wort of between 1.040 to 1.050, including the wort from your specialty malts, in the largest pot you have. Use that wort to do your boil for the hop schedule in the AG recipe as it stands. You might need to add the rest of your fermentables a few minutes prior to flameout, and then chill and add to the fermenter. Top it up to the recipe volume, and proceed as usual with yeast etc.

It's not really difficult, and it gives you a heap more options on finding recipes.