Homebrew Recipe: Cranberry Lime Lager

I always make a cranberry beer for Thanksgiving and this year I’m switching it up by making a lager!

This homebrew is hot pink when it’s done!

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Clawhammer Supply 120V Electric System here 

Blichmann Riptide pump here 

Monster Mill here 

Grain scale here 

Hop scale here

Statis Glycol Chiller here 

Hudson sprayer for sanitizer here 

Refractometer here 

Delta Fermenter here

Floating Diptube here

Jack Lalane Juicer here

Pectic Enzyme here

Cranberry Lager – American Lager

5.1% / 12.4 °P

Recipe by Flora Brewing

All Grain

Grainfather G30 110V

72% efficiency

Batch Volume: 5.5 gal

Boil Time: 60 min

Mash Water: 4.32 gal

Sparge Water: 0.01 gal / 0.01 gal HLT water

Top-Up Water: 3.21 gal

Total Water: 7.54 gal

Boil Volume: 6.53 gal

Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.046

Vitals

Original Gravity: 1.050

Final Gravity: 1.011

IBU (Tinseth): 0

Color: 4 SRM

Mash

Temperature — 138 °F — 30 min

Temperature — 156 °F — 30 min

Temperature — 168 °F — 10 min

Malts (10 lb 8 oz)

10 lb (95.2%) — Mecca Grade Estate Malt  Gateway: Under-modified Barley Wind-Malt — Grain  — 1.4 °L

8 oz (4.8%) — Cargill (Gambrinus)  Honey Malt — Grain  — 19 °L

Hops (0.75 oz)

0.75 oz (15 IBU) — Centennial 7.5% — Boil — 30 min

Miscs

1.7 g — Calcium Chloride (CaCl2) — Mash

0.3 g — Epsom Salt (MgSO4) — Mash

0.3 g — Gypsum (CaSO4) — Mash

Yeast

1 pkg — Fermentis  S-23 SafLager West European Lager 82%

Fermentation

Primary — 50 °F — 22 days

Carbonation: 2.4 CO2-vol

Water Profile

Ca2+ 55

Mg2+ 11

Na+ 40

Cl- 59

SO42- 25

HCO3- 151

METRIC

Cranberry Lager

American Lager

5.1% / 12.4 °P

Recipe by

Flora Brewing

All Grain

Grainfather G30 110V

72% efficiency

Batch Volume: 20.82 L

Boil Time: 60 min

Mash Water: 16.34 L

Sparge Water: 0.04 L / 0.04 L HLT water

Top-Up Water: 12.15 L

Total Water: 28.53 L

Boil Volume: 24.72 L

Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.046

Vitals

Original Gravity: 1.050

Final Gravity: 1.011

IBU (Tinseth): 15

Color: 7.9 EBC

Mash

Temperature — 58.9 °C — 30 min

Temperature — 68.9 °C — 30 min

Temperature — 75.6 °C — 10 min

Malts (4.763 kg)

4.536 kg (95.2%) — Mecca Grade Estate Malt  Gateway: Under-modified Barley Wind-Malt — Grain  — 2.4 EBC

227 g (4.8%) — Cargill (Gambrinus)  Honey Malt — Grain  — 49.5 EBC

Hops (21.3 g)

21.3 g (15 IBU) — Centennial 7.5% — Boil — 30 min

Miscs

1.7 g — Calcium Chloride (CaCl2) — Mash

0.3 g — Epsom Salt (MgSO4) — Mash

0.3 g — Gypsum (CaSO4) — Mash

Yeast

1 pkg — Fermentis  S-23 SafLager West European Lager 82%

Fermentation

Primary — 10 °C — 22 days

Carbonation: 2.4 CO2-vol

Water Profile

Ca2+ 55

Mg2+ 11

Na+ 40

Cl- 59

SO42- 25

HCO3- 151