This 5 litre recipe kit features everything you need to brew a Traditional European Style Lager, as part of our Kitchen Brewer series or otherwise known as stove top brewing. This kit not only uses classic malts and hops to deliver delicious lager flavour but also a “real” lager yeast strain, which needs consideration if you plan to ferment in a non-pressurised fermenter as it will need to sit at around 10-12c, unless you plan to use something like a Pinter – as we did in our video for this recipe. If you do then you’ll be taking advantage of the benefits that pressurised fermentation brings. The fermentation can be done at ambient temperatures and will complete much faster, around 7 days.

Expect a beer which light, refreshing, balanced with sweet malt notes, floral and spice hop presence but crisp and dry from the yeast used.

Check out the video instructions or our step by step blog post to guide you from brew day to bottle! You can also check out the video where we brewed this beer using a Pinter here

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About the Kitchen Brewer Range

Brewing 20l batches of beer just isn’t convenient for everyone. We also know that many of you would love to experience the joy of making your own all grain beer at home but space doesn’t permit. That’s why we’ve put together the Kitchen Brewer range. Featuring great recipes that come from our most popular bigger recipe kits and all the equipment you will need to make great tasting beer at home, using all grain, just like the pros. All these beer kits have been prepared and developed to work with the common method for stove top brewing, brew in the bag. The grain is crushed slightly finer to allow for maximum efficiency when mashing.

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Ingredients Included

Crisp Vienna Malt
Weyermann Carapils
Simpsons Malt – Finest Lager Malt
Saazer – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellet (60 grams)
WHC Dried Yeast – Einstein- 11g Packet (1 pack)

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Method

Beer Style (main): Other Origin Lagers
Beer Style (sub): International-Style Pilsener
Batch Size: 5L
Original Gravity: 1.040
Final Gravity: 1.008
ABV %: 4.2
IBU: 26
Mash efficiency: 80
Brewing equipment: Stove Top

THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 65
Length (mins) (Step 1): 60

THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 30

Hop / kettle additions and timing:

20g Saazer @ 30mins
20g Sazzer @ 15min
10g Sazzer @ 5min

Add yeast nutrient & Protofloc at 10mins before the end of the boil

Yeast: WHC Lab Einstein – 1 Packet
Fermentation temperature/steps: 10c – 2-3 weeks or 1 week at 18c if fermenting under pressure

Secondary additions:

To help the beer clear post fermentation add an optional dose of Clarity

Comments:

Post fermentation, the finished lager needs a period of conditioning – depending on your fermentation method this will vary. If yo are fermenting this in a standard fermenter than bottle after fermentation and allow the lager to sit at around 12c for 2-3 weeks in the bottles. If you are using a Pinter, as we did in our video, then a week or two in the fridge should be sufficient.