American Craft Lager Recipe & Methods For Homebrewers

[@SCROWMD]

Thank you David for another great video. I much prefer your method of "IBU" hop additions versus weighed hops and times . Much more accurate for the home brewer to obtain your intended results. Cheers!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Cheers Sean. Yes it is an important thing to highlight, its shocking the amount of people who blindly go by weight and do not consider AA%.

[@leser1music]

Perfect timing! This is surprisingly similar to the next beer i'm going to brew. The difference is, i'll be using mandarina bavaria and cascade hops at a lower ibu and using dry enzyme. Apart from that, same yeast and similar enzyme.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great, enjoy 🍻🍻🍻

[@leser1music]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew *similar grain bill 😅 Thanks, love the channel btw. Cheers 🍻

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear, thank you 🍻🍻🍻

[@nicksymons635]

Just chugged a first pint of this....great recipe! It's a perfect thirst quencher. Such a great hop combo too...and i'm really impressed with Novalager, it's very clean. Thanks for sharing!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear, sounds like you nailed it 🍻🍻

[@alanman5328]

Great timing! I was just thinking to brew a lager and have been looking through your recipes. This fits well what I had in mind. Cheers!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear Alan, enjoy 🍻🍻🍻

[@philcurtis8935]

Another cracker, thanks David. I currently have your Golden European Lager fermenting away rapidly and I’m soooo tempted to chuck in some Centennial now!😅

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Haha, you should resist that on this one and brew this one too 🍻🍻😎

[@paulrobertson9439]

Excellent, another recipe to add to my long list of your fantastic brews to try. Your Vienna lager in my keg is almost finished so............. Thank you :)

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Cheers Paul, enjoy!

[@stevetodd1559]

Great timing David! I just ordered some Nova lager yeast and Saaz hops but hadn't decided what to brew yet. Centennial and Saaz are my two favorites so this is a no-brainer. This will be my first time using the Nova. I'll let you know how it turns out!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear Steve, enjoy 🍻🍻🍻

[@snappingbear]

Looks good. I will have to try it.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Enjoy 🍻🍻🍻

[@havarfjerdingen1695]

Looks amazing David. I have Nova lager yeast on hand. May give this a recipe a try

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Go for it 🍻🍻🍻 Enjoy

[@benbinks2012]

Oh so now I need another fermentation vessel, thanks David 😂

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

I would dare say “need” is not right, desire probably 🍻🍻🍻

[@ElementaryBrewingCo]

Sounds delicious!!!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

It sure is 🍻🍻😎

[@alfrancis5299]

This looks like another awesome recipe by David. However, does anyone know if it’s already in the Brewfather App?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Yes it is, check this videos description section for a link 🍻🍻🍻

[@alfrancis5299]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew found it, thank you so much

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Enjoy 🍻🍻🍻

[@AitaOMila]

Hello David....as always thanks for sharing all your recipes and knowledge.... one thing about the merchandise i keep clicking on the link and it is giving me a 404! Page not found error....is there a new link? or a website to make the purchase? thanks...

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear thanks. My merch store is on Teespring. Underneth each video on a desktop computer there are links to various items. This will take you to the main website. You can also use this link:- www.teespring.com/stores/david-heath-Homebrew

[@kraghhansen]

Hi David. Going to try this recipe later this week. What’s your experience regarding conditioning time when using Novalager?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

I have been drinking these quite early but I would suggest waiting at least 3 weeks.

[@ducksound8023]

Prefect recipe to replace bud products!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

For sure!! 😎🍻😀

[@jasonsheppard7410]

I'm going to brew this one next as I fancy getting a lager ready for the summer. Im a bit stuck though on calculating the dry hop amounts for the saaz as I am going to use the lupomax with an AA of 8.4. Much higher than the standard 2.6. Would you recommend halving the amount of saaz. Thanks

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Hi Jason, Alpha acids are not a concern when dry hopping.

[@hasto4584]

Hi David. I haven't gone down the kegging path yet so what bottle conditioning/lagering schedule would you recommend? Thx.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Hi, bottle as usual giving time for carbonation. Then store in a fridge or a cold area for at least a couple of weeks but the longer the potentially better 🍻🍻🍻

[@hasto4584]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew Thanks David.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

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[@JP..]

You mention that a 30 min boil gives extra flavour? Would be interested to know in what way as I have been thinking of reducing boil time on other recipes. Definitely going to give this one a go…👍🏻

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Its more flavour in general because you are not boiling it off for as long. This will vary from recipe to recipe in terms of actual effect.

[@BroswithBeerandPants]

Looks good. Question, have you any experience with homebrewed lambic etc?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thank you. I am a sour beer fan but not so much on lambics. I do have a solera sour beer project that is ongoing though that would probably interest you that has various video parts. Here is the first one, there are two more:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/amikgYSDnbKehdU

[@Quantenbusch]

Thank you very much for this recipe! Since Novalager had been released I was looking forward to your first tried and tested recipe 👍👍👍 What substitute would you recommend in case biscuit malt is not available (like it is here in AT) ?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Cheers Michael. I would go with either victory malt or aromatic malt. Biscuit can also be known as special roasted malt too by some malsters. I hope this helps.

[@saladaufdieeichel]

I would go with either caramunich or a mixture of munich and carahell.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

There are various ways to go here.

[@saladaufdieeichel]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew I prefer your route but we´re limited to Weyermann and Ireks specialty malts here in austria.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

As long as it works 🍻🍻🍻

[@PortlyGentleman]

I❤lager delicious looking beer/ recipe 🤤🤤

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Cheers Bradley. Yes this sure beats lite beers 🍻🍻🍻

[@davidshepard7778]

Anyone know what the intended sulfate/chloride ratio for this recipe is

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

The recipe is shared on Brewfather. Load the desired water profile and it will tell you the ratio.

[@rawrnyclv]

Curious why you comment that the top plate isn’t necessary for this grain bill? When would you?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

The top plate on these systems are optional. The time to for sure use it is with very large grainbills to hold the grain in.

[@mikeb.6626]

I see hop bongs and other methods of avoiding oxygen exposure when dry hopping, yet you've opened the fermenter lid and dropped the bag in. I rarely dry hop, so have no experience regarding the results of oxygen exposure (whilst dry hopping.) Comments?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

As long as you do not introduce oxygen by splashing around then its not an issue. Ive never oxidised a beer by following careful methods.