Rick's Black Lager
Dark American Lager • Partial Mash • 10 gal
Clean amber lager
March 30, 2008 pm 02:21pm
Ingredients (Partial Mash, 10 gal)
- 1.07 lbs
Crystal Malt 40°L
Crystal Malt 40°L
Sweet, mild caramel flavor and a golden color. Use in light lagers and light ales.
- 3.32 lbs
Belgian Caramunich
Belgian Caramunich
Caramel, full flavor, copper color. For Belgian ales, German smoked and bocks.
- 6.00 lbs
American 2-row
American 2-row
Yields a slightly higher extract than Six Rox brewers Malt. Tends to give a smoother, less grainy flavored beer. Some brewers claim they can detect a significant difference in flavor. Lower protein and will yield a lower color than Six-Row Brewers Malt
- 10.00 lbs
Liquid Amber Extract
Liquid Amber Extract
Amber is used predominantly in the production of medium-colored beers such as pale ales, IPAs, and bitters.
- 1.07 oz
Tettnanger - 3.9 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min
Tettnanger
Mild, slightly spicy. 'Noble'.
- 0.51 oz
Perle - 7.2 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min
Perle
Used mainly for its minty bittering and good green hop aromas in all non-pilsener lagersand wheats. Aroma is pleasant and slightly spicy
- 0.50 oz
Cascade - 5.2 AA% pellets; boiled 5 min
Cascade
Spicy with citrus notes. Slightly grapefruity.
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Fermentis S-23 Saflager S-23
Fermentis S-23 Saflager S-23
This bottom fermenting yeast is originating from the VLB (Berlin) in Germany and is known under the code RH. The strain is used by Western European commercial breweries and has been reported to produce lagers with some fruity and estery notes. Sedimentation: high. Final gravity: medium. 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.
Style (BJCP)
Category: 4 - Dark Lager
Subcategory: A - Dark American Lager
| Range for this Style | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Gravity: | 1.059 | 1.044 - 1.056 | |
| Terminal Gravity: | 1.014 | 1.008 - 1.012 | |
| Color: | 18.9 SRM | 14 - 22 | |
| Alcohol: | 6.0% ABV | 4.2% - 6% | |
| Bitterness: | 13.1 IBU | 8 - 20 |
