Zulu's x-mas lager
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 3⅓ | pounds | Can Munton & Fison Light |
| Hopped Malt Syrup | ||
| 2¾ | pounds | (approx.) light dry malt |
| Extract | ||
| 2½ | pounds | Light clover honey |
| 1 | pounds | Crystal malt |
| 2 | teaspoons | Gypsum (soft water |
| Treatment) | ||
| 2 | ounces | Cascade hops (4.5% alpha) |
| 1 | ounce | Cascade hops |
| ½ | ounce | Cascade hops |
| ½ | ounce | Cascade hops |
| 2 | teaspoons | Dried ground ginger |
| 2 | teaspoons | Dried ground nutmeg |
| 3 | teaspoons | Dried ground cinnamon |
| Grated orange peel from 4 | ||
| Oranges | ||
| ¼ | teaspoon | Irish Moss |
| ¾ | cup | Corn sugar for priming |
| 1 | quart | Starter M. eV. German Lager |
| Liquid culture | ||
Directions
Steep crystal malt in brew pot. Remove grains before boil. Add extracts and honey and bring to a boil. Add 2 ounces Cascade at beginning of boil. Add ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, orange peel, and Irish moss in last 10 minutes. Add 1 ounce of Cascade hops two minutes later. Add ½ ounce Cascade in last 5 minutes and the last ½ ounce in the last 2 minutes.
This recipe makes a golden, rather than dark, Christmas beer. With the proportions of hops and spices used, you get a complex mix of aromas, with none of them being too dominant. Other than being a lager and using various temperatures, this is a very easy brew to make. If anyone else tries it out, I'd be curious to hear the results. Original Gravity: 1.071 Final Gravity: 1.018 Primary Ferment: 12 days at 50 degrees Secondary Ferment: 30 days at 40 degrees Lager: 30 days at 30 degrees Recipe By : Serving Size:
From: Sykes.Kaye@... (Kaye Sykesdate: Thu, 16 Feb 95 10:02:23 +0100 File