Pilsner or lager recipe..

[MickDundee]

I have a Helles lagering at the moment:

90% lager malt
10% light munich

10g magnum 60mins
25g Hersbrucker 5mins

Fermented with Omega German lager (first time I’ve used a liquid lager yeast).

 

[ColinGee]

Loving the recipes, just done my first pilsner using the following:

23ltr batch
3500g BESTMalz Pilsner
375g Wermann Carapils
30g Saaz @ 75 min
35g Saaz @ 15 min
2x pkts M54

Thinking of lagering for a couple of weeks then bottling.

What do you guys use for priming when bottling?

 

[Alastair70]

I did one last year for the craic. I’d just put the brew fridge together so thought Id have a go a controlled fermentation. 95% Pilsner malt, 5% wheat, saaz to bitter and saaz at 15 mins for flavour. Came off ok, tasted like Stella (no surprise there).

Had a go a Munich Helles and was blown away. Serving brew no.2 at the minute and the 3rd brew is going on next weekend. I’ve a Vienna style lagering at the minute and I’ll be doing a Munich Dunkle in the autumn.

I‘m a convert to lager brewing, particularly as 90%+ of the supermarket offerings are undrinkable.

Munich Helles
91% Pilsner, 7% Munich II, 2% Melanoidin
16 IBUs Mandarina Bravaria at 60m
4 IBUs Mittlefruh at 15m
WLP860 or wy2308

 

[Oneflewover]

I‘m a convert to lager brewing, particularly as 90%+ of the supermarket offerings are undrinkable.

Completely agree with this, not easy to find a decent lager in a supermarket. I brewed a bock / double bock in the early part of this year. Last few bottles and I'm really savouring them, turned out so malty and rich, whilst being really clean and savoury. I really must brew more lager next winter

 

[paintingken]

I did one last year for the craic. I’d just put the brew fridge together so thought Id have a go a controlled fermentation. 95% Pilsner malt, 5% wheat, saaz to bitter and saaz at 15 mins for flavour. Came off ok, tasted like Stella (no surprise there).

Had a go a Munich Helles and was blown away. Serving brew no.2 at the minute and the 3rd brew is going on next weekend. I’ve a Vienna style lagering at the minute and I’ll be doing a Munich Dunkle in the autumn.

I‘m a convert to lager brewing, particularly as 90%+ of the supermarket offerings are undrinkable.

Munich Helles
91% Pilsner, 7% Munich II, 2% Melanoidin
16 IBUs Mandarina Bravaria at 60m
4 IBUs Mittlefruh at 15m
WLP860 or wy2308

Great news as I have my first Helles fermenting away. Not sure if you keg? If so, how long did you manage to keep it in the keg before drinking?

 

[Alastair70]

Great news as I have my first Helles fermenting away. Not sure if you keg? If so, how long did you manage to keep it in the keg before drinking?

I keg mine with 2 weeks set and forget before drinking. It does tend to improve over the following 3 or 4 weeks and is usually finished within 3 of months. I’ll try to time it so the next brew lagered and ready to keg at that stage.

 

[AlDaviz]

The Pilsner is good ! You can taste a slightly malty/caramel taste to the Pilsner. It came in around 5.7% abv. I poured to try to make the head small, I used 107g of Demerara sugar to carbonate when bottling.

 

[paintingken]

Just to follow up on this thread. Having made a Pilsner from the original advice it was a mixed result. Probably because I bottled it. Some bottles were better than others and but the last one I had, about 4 months from brew day was glorious.

Not wanting it to get the better of me, I went for a Helles this time and kegged it. Thanks @foxbat for the original advice, it tastes even better than I had hoped for and funnily enough better than the Tiger taste I was going for in the OP.

I am by no means the master of my craft but I'm pretty proud of this.