Description
True To Style – All Grain Recipe Kits #5 Vienna Lager
These all grain kits are all designed with one thing in mind, making great tasting beer at affordable prices. We’ve built and created this range to offer our first “core” range of all grain kits that represent either great ingredients, methods or beer styles which we adore.
All of them are 23 litre batches and come in at sensible strengths for the mid week beers or sessions at the weekend! Read our full blog post on this range here!
Vienna lager is a style which we adore here at The Malt Miller. Its copper colour and malt character to compliment makes for a very drinkable and satisfying beer. The late addition of Hallertauer Mittelfruh offers a slight floral note to the nose which balances the beer out.
Both crisp and refreshing and full of malt character and slight toasty notes. This beer is wonderful to drink any time of the year but we love to brew this earlier in the year and then give it a long condition over the summer to enjoy in the autumn months.
Ingredients Included
Simpsons Malt – Chocolate Malt
Simpsons Malt – Vienna Malt
Simpsons Malt – Finest Pale Maris Otter
Hallertauer Mittelfruh – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellet (20 grams)
Hallertauer Magnum – BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellet (12 grams)
LALBREW NOVALAGER™ – MODERN HYBRID LAGER YEAST (1 packs)
Method
Beer Style (main): European Lagers
Beer Style (sub): Vienna-Style Lager
Batch Size: 23l
Original Gravity: 1.051
Final Gravity: 1.010
ABV %: 5.35
IBU: 26
Mash efficiency: 80
Brewing equipment:
THE MASH
Temperature °C (Step 1): 68
Length (mins) (Step 1): 60
Temperature °C (Step 2): 75
Length (mins) (Step 2): 10
THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 60
Hop / kettle additions and timing:
12g Magnum @ 60min
20g Hallertauer Mittelfruh @ 5min
Whirlpool / hop stand:
N/A
Yeast: Lalbrew Novalager
Fermentation temperature/steps: 13c – 7-10 days
Secondary additions:
Once primary fermentation has completed allow for a further 2 weeks conditioning in the FV before packaging. After packaging allow for a further 4-6 weeks, this will allow the flavour to smooth out and character to develop.
We strongly recommend adding a second packet of LalBrew NovaLager to this kit for a healthy fermentation or making a starter before hand.
Andrew Clark (verified owner) –
Great Kit, nice taste. Very Malty and refreshing.. Only gave 4 stars instead of full 5 as the wife is not so keen, more for me.
Brewed in Corny Keg at 15psi and 18C for 7 days, transferred to serving Keg with Gelatin and drinking within 12 days.
Andrew Benham (verified owner) –
A. Exceptional beer! My first all grain recipe. I followed the advice on the page and added a second pack of yeast. Ended up somewhat stronger than intended at 6.5% but hey ho. Malty, a little sweet, and very clean. Really lovely brew.