ale kit, lager yeast ???

[brydo]

hi guys, might be a strange one here but... i was wondering what would be the results of an ipa or stout kit being fermented with a lager yeast ?. its still cold where i am and my hallway is constant around 11oC. i could just make another lager in time for summer but was interested if anyone had tried this before and what the results were. cheers
brydo84

 

[MyQul]

Reckon an IPA kit using a lager yeast would come out as...er lager, as all a lager is, is a pale ale receipe put through the lagering process usinging lager yeast.

However your getting more interesting if you put other styles through the lagering process with lager yeast. Baltic porter uses lager yeast and is fermented at colder temps. Never had one though and never made one as I don't have a beer fridge.

As for results, lagering produces a smooth, clean, crisps taste (or is supposed to) and that's what you get if you lager a different style so a Baltic Porter is a smooth clean crisp version of porter

 

[brydo]

im curious to try it with say coopers stout or something that traditionally would be a "heavy" beer just to see what happens. im a lager drinker but want try some thing with a deeper flavour and yet still contains the crisp clean flavour of a lager. probably hoping for too much but i wanna try

 

[MyQul]

im curious to try it with say coopers stout or something that traditionally would be a "heavy" beer just to see what happens. im a lager drinker but want try some thing with a deeper flavour and yet still contains the crisp clean flavour of a lager. probably hoping for too much but i wanna try

Think you've probably hit it on the nose - you'll get a crisp clean flavour with the 'weight' of the stout - I say go for it :thumb:

 

[clibit]

American ale yeast, US05 in dried form, is very clean and lager like, and I've made stouts with it and it's ace.

Lagered IPAs are commercially available, known as India lagers I believe. And there's Baltic Porters as MyQul says.

Most things have been done.