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Gluten Free Lager attempt 1

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Now that I know that some of my previous beers should have been lagered, I will now attempt a lager.  Or several lagers.  The hardest part will be temperature control because I do not have a good space for it at this moment.  The second hardest part is that I've forgotten the exact recipe I used again.  Back on Sunday, I had decided to make this beer using:
1.4 lbs of Sorghum Syrup 60DE
2 oz(dry weight) Dextrose (Corn Sugar)
7 grams Saaz, Czech pellet hops 60 minutes
4 grams Saaz, Czech pellet hops 15 minutes
Saflager S-23 lager yeast.
1 gallon water

A second, subsequent beer that week uses:
approx 1.4 lbs Brown rice syrup
7g Saaz, Czech (60)
3g Saaz, Czech (15)
S-23
1 gallon of water

These were put into a mini refridgerator the week of the 20th and has been kept around 50 degrees F.   I thought about keeping them outside in a storage area where the water heater and furnace are located but I wasn't sure if I was getting an accurate temperature reading out there. It should be warmer but since I didn't know how warm and if my thermometer was reading correctly so I used the fridge.

Subsequent tests 3 months later showed that both had a fairly crisp taste and was clear, however the sorghum beer edged out over the lighter rice beer due to having more body and "malt" flavor.

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