Beer Style: Amber Lager Family
Gordon Strong’s California Common
California Common (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.050 FG = 1.013IBU = 35 SRM = 11 ABV = 5% Ingredients7.7 lbs. (3.5 kg) North American pale ale malt1.25 lbs. (567 g) Vienna
Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company’s Croydon is Burning clone
(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.063 FG = 1.016IBU = 21 SRM = 16 ABV = 6% Ingredients11 lbs. (5 kg) rauch malt0.75 lb. (0.34 kg) light Munich malt0.75 lb. (0.34
Pedal Haus Brewery’s Mexican Amber Lager clone
Pedal Haus Brewery’s Mexican Amber Lager clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.048 FG = 1.008 IBU = 17 SRM = 6 ABV = 5.2% A traditional Vienna-style lager with a delicate
Market Garden Brewery’s Boss Amber Lager clone
Market Garden Brewery’s Boss Amber Lager clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.054 FG = 1.014 IBU = 30 SRM = 11 ABV = 5.2% A traditional Vienna-style lager that has
Devils Backbone Brewing Co.’s Vienna Lager clone
Devils Backbone Brewing Co.’s Vienna Lager clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.050 FG = 1.011 IBU = 18 SRM = 10 ABV = 5.1% The gold standard for Vienna lagers in
Gordon Strong’s Munich Dunkel
This recipe is somewhat of a compromise in mash techniques. Traditionally, this is a decocted style, but we’re going to use a step mash and a little extra character malt instead. If you want to use a decoction, I’ll describe that as well.
Dixie Brewing Co.’s Dixie clone
Dixie is an American Pilsner style beer, with adjunct levels a bit lower than most of “Grandpa’s beers.” This extra maltiness gives a bit more robust flavor to it, and a slightly darker color. Its yeast flavor leans more toward the Pilsner style, but uses American hops so that their characteristic citrus flavor comes through.
Olympia Premium Lager Beer clone
Olympia has a very clean flavor, a little malt flavor, a little corn flavor and a little rice flavor, with just a bit of citrus from American hops. There is debate whether the “new” version brewed in California is as good as the original version brewed in Olympia, WA. Afterall, supposedly: “It’s the water.”
Oskar Blues Brewery’s Beerito clone
Inspired by the clean amber lagers of Mexico and melded with malt flavors in Munich dunkels, this lager shows off what a maltster can do, and packs it in an easy-drinking 4.5% beer. Beerito is all about a complexity of subtle flavor with underlying tones of chocolate, caramel, walnuts, and toasted grain.
Starr Hill Brewery: Jomo clone
This year-round offering from Starr Hill is fermented with Southern German lager yeast, its crisp, clean taste, and noticeable hop aroma are effectively balanced with a slight malty sweetness. Jomo has won multiple awards, including two gold medals (2004, 2011) at the Great American Beer Festival.
Theodore Hamm’s Brewing Company’s Hamm’s clone
Hamm’s is crisp, refreshing and very light in color and body. It typically has very high carbonation levels that cover any sweetness that might be present. This beer is brewed with a double mash and is diluted upon packaging as all American-style Pilsners are.
Latrobe Brewing Company: Rolling Rock Extra Pale clone
Rolling Rock Extra Pale is the United States leader in a beer using an “off-flavor” to differentiate itself from all of the other American pale lagers. Rolling Rock has made a name for itself by brewing a pale lager with a significant amount of DMS (Dimethyl Sulfide) in its flavor profile.
