Good house lager for BMC mates?

[Sadu]

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a couple of reliable AG recipes to keep my BMC mates (which is most of them) at bay so I dont waste good porter and dunkelweizen on them. Just brewed the centennial blonde which should fit the bill, was looking for a simple session lager to go alongside that.

Was looking at maybe a helles or lightly hopped pilsner, or a generic light flavour lager.

Anyone care to share a reliable house lager that the BMC mates like?

 

[CJ-3]

i have not brewed the Centenial Blonde yet but the 2 that my non craft drinking friends like are Biermunchers Cream of 3 Crops and Yoopers Fizzy Yellow Beer.

 

[catdaddy66]

i have not brewed the Centenial Blonde yet but the 2 that my non craft drinking friends like are Biermunchers Cream of 3 Crops and Yoopers Fizzy Yellow Beer.

I would go with these also. My 'normal' beer friends have liked them a lot so I have brewed the cream of 3 crops many times.

 

[imasickboy]

If you're explicitly looking for a lager, there's a Yuengling clone here.

Admittedly, it's a bit "more" than BMC, but still similar enough.

 

[kh54s10]

Personally, I would not go to the effort of brewing a traditional lager, I would go with a pale ale and brew a good lager for myself.

This is a light ale that I really liked: http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/allgrain/AG-ExtraPaleAle.pdf

 

[casualbrewer]

Unless you are perfect you won't be able to get too close to a BMC but you can still make good beer. A nice Helles goes well or maybe an Amber lager? Recently I brewed a Kona big wave clone with lager yeast and it is quite delicious. Btw my house lager strain is wlp940 as it is cleaner than 840 and many others.

 

[meatcleaver]

+1 for Helles.
80/20 pils/Vienna
any noble hop to 20-25 IBU + 1 oz @ KO
shoot for an OG around 1.050, FG 1.010
my friends& family love it & they all buy bud light, corona, dos xx, etc.

 

[Sadu]

Personally, I would not go to the effort of brewing a traditional lager, I would go with a pale ale and brew a good lager for myself.

This is a light ale that I really liked: http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/allgrain/AG-ExtraPaleAle.pdf

It's winter for me and maintaining lager temps is easy, even without a fridge. Summer will be impossible so I thought I should smash out a few lagers while I can.

Plus it's good experience.

My last lager I used the brulosophy method and turned out pretty good. I was concerned initially with the first tastings but came out good with some conditioning.

 

[Sadu]

i have not brewed the Centenial Blonde yet but the 2 that my non craft drinking friends like are Biermunchers Cream of 3 Crops and Yoopers Fizzy Yellow Beer.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I was actually looking at that same helles recipe (mostly pils, bit of vienna with noble hops). The fizzy yellow beer seems to be the inverse of that - mostly vienna bit of pils and noble hops. I'm betting both of these would come out good with an either ale or lager yeast.

I have w34/70 as my go-to lager yeast, it seems quite versatile.

I think I'll give the helles and fizzy yellow beer a go next, need to find a supplier of flaked rice for the cream of 3 crops recipe but that looks good too.

 

[casualbrewer]

Don't need flaked adjuncts.. just go to store and get instant rice or instant grits. I actually just threw quick grits into mash yesterday which are a bit different and they did fine.

 

[Hammy71]

This:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=331030

The American Lager Crop Chopper is a beer that I now try to keep on tap at all times. "Craft" enough to keep my beer nerd friends surprised by an american lager, but BMC enough to be a hit at parties with the "other" people. Simple and you won't regret it.

 

[November]

For 10 gals

13 lbs 2-row
10 cans of low sodium cream corn
1.5 pounds of honey malt

1.5 oz Willamette @ fwh

1 pk w34/70 yeast

I keep 15 gals of this on hand at all times for bartering with lite lager drinkers.

 

[Sadu]

lol 10 cans of low sodium cream corn??

I think I'm gonna have to try this just so I can see people's faces when I tell them their beer is made from creamed corn. So that just goes in the mash to add some abv without too much flavour?

Bartering is the thing. Since I started brewing I give a couple of bottles to everyone who visits. Not a bad way to make friends / enhance existing friendships without much cost and it's starting to come back in unexpected ways. Enjoying a nice wild venison salami at the moment that cost me 3 beers, a bargain at twice the price.

 

[November]

Yup, right in the mash. It ends up like coors banquet. I recently rented a mule to haul fence posts down the canyon for some of this beer. Last year, I traded a few gallons of this for a goat to roast for a party. You'd be surprised what homemade beer can trade for.

 

[Sadu]

+1 for Helles.
80/20 pils/Vienna
any noble hop to 20-25 IBU + 1 oz @ KO
shoot for an OG around 1.050, FG 1.010
my friends& family love it & they all buy bud light, corona, dos xx, etc.

I brewed this at 1 gallon size to see how it goes!

Used motueka for the hops since it's kinda noble and I like supporting NZ craft beer industry. Will see how that goes.

Did a decoction mash which is the opposite of simple but I had time and on 1g batches its no big deal so meh. Protein rest at 50c then mash at 64 then mash out. Pitched w34/70 lager yeast from slurry.

Will ferment at 10c / 50f using brulosophy lager method.