
Greg's Vanilla Wheat Lager
Premium American Lager • All Grain • 5 gal
First attempt at a vanilla lager.
April 3, 2012 pm 05:54pm
Ingredients (All Grain, 5 gal)
- 4 lbs
Pilsen Malt; Briess
Pilsen Malt; Briess
Subtly sweet maltiness. Characteristics & Applications: • Can be used as a base malt. • More pronounced malty flavor than 2-Row Brewers Malt. • Use with 2-Row Brewers Malt for rich malt flavor and additional color. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.
- 5 lbs
White Wheat Malt; Briess
White Wheat Malt; Briess
Sweet, malty, wheat, floury flavors. Characteristics & Applications: • Imparts malty flavor not obtainable from raw wheat. • Use with rice hulls to improve lautering and help prevent stuck mash. • White Wheat Malt contributes to foam production and foam stability.
- 0.5 lbs
2-Row Caramel Malt 10L; Briess
2-Row Caramel Malt 10L; Briess
Golden color and a candy like sweetness. Characteristics & Applications: • In contrast to Brewers Malt, glassiness is a distinguishing characteristic of Caramel Malt. The glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components giving true Caramel Malt the ability to contribute body (mouthfeel), foam foam retention, and extended beer stability, while contributing color and unique caramel flavor. • Caramel 10L is a roasted caramel malt that imparts golden color. • Use 3-7% for Pilsener-style beers for balance. • Use 5-15% to provide color, sweetness and color to light amber beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.
- 1 lbs
Wheat Flaked
Wheat Flaked
Belgian White Ale(wit), other specialty beers.
- 1 oz
Fuggle - 4.2 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min
Fuggle
Mild. Mainly used for finishing and dry hopping especially pale ales, porters, and stouts. Aroma is mild and pleasant, spicy, and soft.
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Fermentis W-34/70 Saflager W-34/70
Fermentis W-34/70 Saflager W-34/70
This famous yeast strain from Weihenstephan in Germany is used world-wide within the brewing industry. Thanks to its technological properties, this strain has become the most popular strain for lager brewing and is used by industrial breweries and brewing groups around the globe. Sedimentation: high. Final gravity: medium. Pitching instructions: Re-hydrate the dry yeast into yeast cream in a stirred vessel prior to pitching. Sprinkle the dry yeast in 10 times its own weight of sterile water or wort at 23C ± 3C. Once the expected weight of dry yeast is reconstituted into cream by this method (this takes about 15 to 30 minutes), maintain a gentle stirring for another 30 minutes. Then pitch the resultant cream into the fermentation vessel. Alternatively, pitch dry yeast directly in the fermentation vessel providing the temperature of the wort is above 20C. Progressively sprinkle the dry yeast into the wort ensuring the yeast covers all the surface of wort available in order to avoid clumps. Leave for 30 minutes and then mix the wort e.g. using aeration.
Notes
Three Vanilla Beans Added to Secondary
Style (BJCP)
Category: 1 - Light Lager
Subcategory: C - Premium American Lager
Range for this Style | |||
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Original Gravity: | 1.047 | 1.046 - 1.056 | ![]() |
Terminal Gravity: | 1.009 | 1.008 - 1.012 | ![]() |
Color: | 4.7 SRM | 2 - 6 | ![]() |
Alcohol: | 4.9% ABV | 4.6% - 6% | ![]() |
Bitterness: | 22.1 IBU | 15 - 25 | ![]() |
Discussion
Result
2012-04-03 6:00pm
It had good vanilla aroma, but was tart. I soaked the cut and scraped vanilla beans in vodka for a week to kill bacteria, but I don't think it worked. I suggest boiling the beans before adding to secondary. It was cloudy like a wheat beer would be. I plan to try this one again.