Beer Style: Amber Lager Family
Al Capone’s Beer Recipe from Chicago 1924
MEMBERS ONLYA recipe from a brewery that supposedly owned by Al Capone.
Classic American Pilsner
MEMBERS ONLYJamil Zainasheff’s lays down a CAP recipe for brewers to try their hand at. Be sure to use fresh hops and keep a close eye on the fermentation temperature.
Brewing with Corn
FREEMacro lagers aren’t the only beers that benefit from the addition of corn (maize). Learn how it can benefit homebrewers too!
Czech Dunkel Recipe
MEMBERS ONLYA smooth drinking Dunkel, brewed using The Brülosophy Method of fast lager fermentations.
RPB’s Lede Lager
MEMBERS ONLYRPB’s Lede Lager (5 gallon/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.060 FG = 1.014 IBU = 62 SRM = 13 ABV = 6.2% Ingredients 9 lbs. (4.1 kg) 2-row pale malt 2.5 lbs. (1.13 kg) Best Malz Red X (12 °L) 1.25 lbs. (0.57 kg) crystal malt (60 °L) 10.5 AAU Galaxy hops (60 min.) (0.75
Holly’s Honey Lager
MEMBERS ONLYRecipe supplied by Beer at Home out of Englewood, Colorado. An easy drinking, lawnmower beer with hints of the honey on the nose and flavor profile.
Classic American Pilsner
MEMBERS ONLYNothing says summer quite like enjoying a crisp CAP on a hot afternoon. Here is a CAP recipe from Fermenter’s Supply and Equipment based out of Omaha, Nebraska.
Pre-Prohibition Lager
MEMBERS ONLYA pre-Pro lager brewed with a yeast strain reputed to come from Philly’s old Christian Schmidt Brewery. This recipe is based on one developed by award-winning homebrewer Jeff Renner and originally published in “Brewing Techniques.”
Chesapeake Pilsner
MEMBERS ONLYRecipe submitted by Annapolis Home Brew: Severna Park, Maryland
More Beer’s California Common
MEMBERS ONLYJason Petros, of More Beer, sent us his recipe for a California Common beer.
Wiener Blut Vienna Lager
MEMBERS ONLYRecipe author Chris Colby says, “Wiener Blut is a malty, lightly sweet amber lager with slightly more German noble hops than usual.” Silver medal winner at the 2004 National Homebrew Contest.
Anchor Brewing Co.’s Anchor Steam clone
MEMBERS ONLYThis beer takes its name from the days when beer was made in the cool climate of San Francisco on rooftops in the nineteenth century—open vessels were used to help cool the beer quickly. Steam is the beer that convinced Fritz Maytag to buy the brewery in 1965 and carry on the brewing tradition that started there in the late 1800s. It features a deep amber color and Northern Brewer hops.