Lagers are always my first choice of drinking for their clean flavor which allows a malty-hoppy flavor
I don't like the fruity taste of most ales
But I cant find a lager yeast right now, the only yeast I have is s04
Is there any recipe to a malty beer? One that tastes very close to a malty lager?
I can buy caramel-crystal malt, Vienna malt, pilsner malt, biscuit malt and amber malt
I'm a lager fan myself, but tend to brew ales in summer when my cellar temp is higher so I don't have to use as much refrigeration during ferment.
I just tapped a keg of one I brewed a month ago using S-04 that is nice and malty w some of the lager eforvesence. A very tasty brew if I do say so....
Nominal 10 gallon batch
15# pale malt, but a pils would be fine here too, but I had some pale two row to use up, more often I use pils.
5# Vienna
150F mash for 60 min, 10 min vorlauf, sparge, 60-70 min boil. Cool to 160, whirlpool, hop step, cool, pitch yeast, etc...
Hop to choice, but if you don't want fruit, lean toward nobel hops, stay away form fruity ones.
I used
1.2 N brewer first wort
1.2 Styrian goldings 30 min boil
.3 home grown leaf cascade at 160F hop step You should not use cascade if you don't want fruit flavor, maybe saaz, tettenger or willamente would be a better choice.
S-04 fermeted at 66F
Important last step for lagerish brew, cold crash for at least two weeks after fermentation completely finished.