GF Lager
Beer Style: American-Style Light Lager
Recipe Type: all-grain
Yield: 3 gallons
Description:
American yellow fizzy beer brewed for a celiac relative who really deserved a beer. As close as I could get to a macro brew, light yellow and clear but with some hop flavor and aroma. A 3 gallon recipe!
Ingredients:
- 3# GF Pale Millet Malt
- 1.25 # GF Pale Rice Malt
- 1 # GF Corn Malt
- 0.5# GF Caramillet Malt
- 0.25 GF Light Roast Millet malt
- 4 oz Rice hulls
- 0.4 oz Perle (6.8%) 60 minutes
- 0.15 oz Hallertau Mittelfruh (4.1%) 20 minutes
- 0.35 oz Hallertau Mittelfruh (4.1%) Flameout (20 minutes)
- 0.5# corn sugar
- 1 pkg Saflager 34/70 yeast
Additional Instructions
Primary Ferment: 8 days @ 54 degrees FSecondary Ferment: 3 days 54-58, 5 days 68, cool to lager 3 weeks
Beer Profile
Original Gravity: 1.036Final Gravity: 1.008
Alcohol by Vol: 3.7%
Color SRM: 3.9
Bitterness IBU: 21.0
Recipe Type: all-grain
Yield: 3.0 Gallons
Procedure:
Pulsed all malt in blender to coarse powder
6 qt water infusion to beta glucan rest @ 104 F, 30 minutes
5 qt water infusion to protein rest @131 F, 15 minutes
Remove 4 qt liquid from mash tun, let cool to 115.5 F
Pull a 6 qt decoction (thick) from protein rest and boil for 20 minutes, add back to mash tun, rest for 40 minutes @ 163 F
Return removed liquid, add alpha amalase (I Tbsp), rest at 152 F for 90 minutes
Vorlauf, drain to brew kettle, batch sparge with 1.75 gallons water