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

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