American Lager Crop Chopper Premium American Lager

[1Mainebrew]

After another week in the keg I think it's even clearer!

 

[beyernk]

If you lager until clear, then bottle, must you pitch yeast again? Or will there be enough residual yeast left over to work with the priming sugar?

 

[aslander]

If you lager until clear, then bottle, must you pitch yeast again? Or will there be enough residual yeast left over to work with the priming sugar?

There will be enough. It may just take a few weeks

 

[hunter_le five]

Brewing this one today. Can't wait to try it.

 

[1Mainebrew]

Its delish!

 

[LibertyBrewer]

I used a slightly tweaked version of this beer, and took 3rd in a local home brew competition.

 

[hunter_le five]

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[Hammy71]

I got a new neighbor back in the spring of 2015 and of course he's a Miller Lite drinker. Didn't take long to "ruin" him (his words). However, for nostalgia sake, I made this recipe back in November for him. Just tapped this afternoon.....and I'm taken aback. This is a really good copy of Miller High Life. At least my version is. Damn good lager. Thanks to the OP!!! I have dubbed the beer "Rob" in my neighbor's name. I might even let him try some. Of course, if there's any left by the time I see him.

 

[jonny24]

I think I'm going to make this as my first lager. I have a few questions.

Was the full oz of hops at 60 minutes?

How much boiling water do you have to add to get up to 149?

Did you notice any difference in using only 2row and no 6row?

Thanks a lot!

 

[GreenDragon]

I'm curious about the hops too. The hops are all aroma and really low AAs. I know lagers are a low IBU beer but even at 60 minutes it's coming out crazy low.

 

[LibertyBrewer]

I'm curious about the hops too. The hops are all aroma and really low AAs. I know lagers are a low IBU beer but even at 60 minutes it's coming out crazy low.

Take it from someone who had brewed this beer a number of times. One ounce of hops is enough. You can add it at the 60 minute mark, remember it's a 90 minute boil. Or, you can add 1/2 oz. as a first wort hop, and then add the balance of the hops at the 60 minute mark. If you go the FWH route, you get one more IBU.

The purpose of the 6 row is to increase the diastatic power of your mash, since you have both corn and rice to convert. I've never made this beer with just straight 2 row. As far as I can tell, the only thing that could happen is your efficiency would drop, which would cause your ABV to drop, and that's catastrophic.

As I said earlier, I've made this beer quite a few times. These days I make it as a 10 gallon batch. When word gets around I have some, I get quite popular.

 

[cgrivois]

Planned on doing this one as per the original recipie but it quickly fell apart. Wound up with a white labs American lager yeast that was old as hell, so I did a two step starter on it. HBS was out of flaked corn so I doubled the flaked rice. Didn't have the correct hops so I went with liberty. OG came in at 1.056, so we will see how it turns out. I also did the step mash a little different. I first heated water and dumped it into my cooler mash ton in order to heat it up. Then heated up the strike water so that when I dumped and stirred the grains I would hit my 130 deg rest. Instead of doing an infusion, I just heated up the mash slowly to 149, dumped the hot water out of my cooler and dumped the mash in. Hit 149 mash temp right on the money.

 

[HomeDrewBrew]

I dont know if anyone else has had this but when i used S-23 in lower 50's have had bad peachy notes.
Read that its more of a Steam beer yeast and should be fermenter in upper 50's -60s.

 

[CorwinGraves]

I didn't read through all the pages. Is it possible to do this with a single infusion rather than stepping the temperatures? If so, what temp should be used?

 

[bonecitybrewco]

I didn't read through all the pages. Is it possible to do this with a single infusion rather than stepping the temperatures? If so, what temp should be used?

Yes it's possible. I would recommend it in fact. A single 75 or 90 minute mash at 148 is what I would do.

 

[mattgw86]

Here's my 14 day old first attempt at a lager. Still a little young, but not bad at all. Only change I made to the recipe was S189 for my yeast. Gonna bottle some this weekend and see what the family thinks...

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[1Mainebrew]

Make sure you lager sufficiently. It will continue to improve with age.

 

[mattgw86]

Make sure you lager sufficiently. It will continue to improve with age.

I've noticed. Just in the week or so it's been in there it's gotten noticeably better. I bottled a few for this weekend and they were a hit. Probably gonna bottle about a case worth for the weekend of the 4th. I think this will be the motivation I need to upgrade to 10 gallon batches.