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Posted: 7/10/2018 4:11:15 AM EDT

Decided to brew a Marzen beer as my first lager in an effort to dial in a recipe before Oktoberfest. Brewed on the 19th of June , so 3 weeks to the day and it’s pretty dang tasty . It’s going to need a little more time to condition but the head retention is excellent . It’s currently lagering at 36 in a keg. Photos to follow once the beer drops clear.

Posted: 7/10/2018 9:25:31 AM EDT

[#1]

Nice! I always look forward to the different Oktoberfest beers!

Posted: 7/10/2018 10:09:56 AM EDT

[#2]

Got any equipment photos? When I brew again, I plan on doing a lager.

Posted: 7/10/2018 12:52:32 PM EDT

[#3]

I can take some , I’m just using a chest freezer with an inkbird controller to do my temp control and i have a beer fridge next to that for once beer is complete and in the kegs . I can ferment about 10-25 gallons at a time depending on fermentor size. I like doing 10 gallon batches though and I would need a bigger boil kettle to do much more than 12.

Posted: 7/10/2018 12:58:40 PM EDT

[#4]

Here’s a pick from yesterday , not as clear as I want yet but it will drop . I agitated the keg on accident while trying to get the tap line attached to the keg before I poured.

The head is luxuriously creamy. This turned out more like a Dunkel than a marzen due to the 15srm Munich that made up 48 percent of the grist.

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Posted: 7/13/2018 1:34:15 PM EDT

[#5]

Nice to see someone else brewing lagers.

My festbier is the lighter German pils type because I'm in hillbilly land and they don't like them "dark" beers.

Posted: 7/15/2018 11:35:03 AM EDT

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Nice to see someone else brewing lagers.

My festbier is the lighter German pils type because I'm in hillbilly land and they don't like them "dark" beers.

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Lagers are awesome ! Sometime soon I’m going to brew another cream ale and bump up the corn content from 10 percent to 20 percent. Probably going to make it as a lager using 34/70 as wlp029 is decently hard to come by locally sometimes .

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