Missing old post--German Lager discussion

mike_sdak 2016-07-29 20:25:43 UTC #1

Hi all.

I was thinking of german lagers today, and I recalled an old thread on the old forum with much discussion about german lagers. I remember the fella who started the thread had an avatar with him pictured with a cigar and a mug of beer, if I recall.

Does anyone remember this? I seem to recall a lot of good info being exchanged in that thread, but can't seem to find it....

old_dawg 2016-07-30 20:29:08 UTC #2

That sounds familiar, but I don't remember his username.

Here's a link to Ken Lenard's web site: http://www.freewebs.com/kenlenard/recipes.htm

Ken used to participate in quite a few discussions here but has now moved over to the Brews Brothers forum. His site has lots of excellent recipes and brewing suggestions for German lagers - so does Brews Brothers.

smallbatchbrewer 2016-07-31 12:34:39 UTC #3

Building on what @old_dawg offered, could it be this forum topic
Yuengling Traditional Lager: Brewed, tasted and verified! http://forum.northernbrewer.com/t/yuengling-traditional-lager-brewed-tasted-and-verified/195

I looked briefly at http://www.freewebs.com/kenlenard/recipes.htm - it looks really good. Thanks @old_dawg!!

mike_sdak 2016-08-01 13:38:43 UTC #4

Thanks for the thoughts.

I am familiar with Ken Lenard's website and recipes. He has helped a lot of homebrewers (myself included) with lager brewing.

In the post I am thinking of, the author had been to Germany, and was on a collaborative quest to recreate the flavors he experienced while in Germany (I want to say Helles, in particular). There were hundreds of posts in the thread, as I recall, and it could have been posted as much as 8-10 years ago. He was able to keep the thread going in the right direction though not without some effort.

I found some old NB forum posts thru the internet archive (remember BeerFan's "SNPA cloning made very simple", for instance?) but can't seem to find this one yet.

mike_sdak 2016-08-01 14:23:07 UTC #5

more details....the poster's handle was "selair" and google tells me the thread I am remembering was actually about weissbier...."great weissbier project of 2007". My memory isn't what it used to be....but then neither is the NB forum's archive

smallbatchbrewer 2016-08-01 21:12:00 UTC #6

As a confirmation, I was also able to find just the 1st (of 11) pages here: http://web.archive.org/web/20070302173332/http://forum.northernbrewer.com/viewtopic.php?t=40751. It appears that the rest of the discussion isn't there (at web.archive.org).

It looks like the recipe may have been copied into this NB thread: http://forum.northernbrewer.com/t/german-hefeweizen-recipe/5796/8.

mike_sdak 2016-08-02 13:12:24 UTC #7

Thanks for digging that up,