New World Australian Lager

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The Australian Lager is traditionally an amber-hued lager with a balanced malt profile and slightly bitter hop flavour, typically brewed with Pride of Ringwood hops or its descendants. However, with the modern craft movement, new world styles of Aussie lager are being made with much fruitier and fresher hop profiles, leaning into the citrusy and tropical flavours found in a lot of new world New Zealand pilsners!

This Aussie lager is no different, coming in at a moderate 4.5% and leaning into the new world styles of hops it is a lightly malty, crisp, bodied lager with medium bitterness and a hop profile of citrus, passionfruit and “fruit salad” like flavour & aroma, making it a perfect “lawn mower” session beer for a hot day when you want to enjoy a full flavoured lager with a moderate abv!


Our Batch size & ABV

• 44LL (2 19L corny kegs & 6L for a half keg) / 11.6 gals finished beer
• 53L (14 gals) wort
  • For a smaller 19L (5 gals) batch size, simply half the ingredients of this recipe
• Starting gravity – 1.042
• Final gravity 1.008
• ABV – 4.5%

Water

• With sparging
• 30L (7.9 gals) strike water approx. 71°C (160°F) use this calculator to determine your strike water starting temp for a 66°C (151°F) mash https://chasethecraft.com/calculators
• 35L (9.2 gal) sparge water at 78°C (172°F)
• Without sparging
• 60L (7.9 gals) strike water approx. 72°C (161.6°F) use this calculator to determine your strike water starting temp for a 66°C (151°F) mash https://chasethecraft.com/calculators

Malts

• Barrett Burston Australian Pilsner – 9.5kg (20.9 lb) (if you can't get Aussie pilsner, any pilsner malt will do)

Hops & Whirlfloc Tablets

• Galaxy
  • 10g (0.35 oz) - 60 minutes left in the boil
  • 60g (2.1 oz) - 5 minutes left in the boil
• Topaz
  • 60g (2.1 oz) - 5 minutes left in the boil
• Whirlfloc tablets
  • 2 tablets – 15 minutes left in the boil

Yeast & Fermentation Temperature

• 23g SafLager S-23 – ferment at 15°C (59 °F) OR [under 12psi pressure 19°C / 66.2 °F]

Our full step to step guide is here!

You can also watch our brew day video!

Cheers!