[quote=“Rookie L A”][quote=“sclinchy”]My wife and I, for that matter) really like clean, pilsner type lagers. I don’t have refrigeration (yet), so I’m thinking about trying to do a sort of a pilsner with the California Common yeast. I have a swamp cooler, so I can reliably ferment in the mid sixties, but obviously any real lagering ain’t gonna happen.
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You can lager in the bottle. Ferment as low as you can with a clean yeast, bottle after three weeks, then put the bottles in the fridge after they’ve carbed and wait a month.[/quote]
Yep. You can pretty much lager anywhere… secondary, keg, bottles, etc. If you only had room for part of the batch in the fridge, bottles would work nicely… 12 here, 24 there, etc. Cheers.
I agree, Ken. I get that ester from it even in the 60s. I do a 90 min, mash usually for my pilsners, but it’s because at the low mash temp I use it takes longer to convert. Also, I want to get as much conversion as possible fro a very dry beer,
