Lager Malt

[ol-hazza]

So I'm looking at making a lager, nothing special or big or crafty, just something to knock back at the end of a hot day and share with non-crafty beer drinking friends.

To do this I bought some Gladfield lager light malt, which as far as I can see is just really light 2 row, and shouldn't need a 90 minute boil like their pilsener. They also have a slightly darker "Ale malt" in their range

I have added the info from the website below, if anyone could let me know their thoughts on dealing with it that would be great.

I was hoping that a regular mash (around 65° so on the low/dry side) and 60 min boil would suffice.



Lager light is made especially for brewing an all malt lager where a light colour is desirable. It can also be used alongside Gladfield wheat malt when brewing delicate bright clean wheat beers where low colour formation is important and a clean malt profile required.
Moisture (%) Max 5
Extract (fine dry) min% 79
Sacharification time 10
Colour (wort) 2.5-2.9
Total Nitrogen (%) 1.4-1.7
Kolbach Index 35-41
pH 5.8-6.1
Diastatic Power (WK) min. 240
FAN (mg/l) min 120
Friability (min) % 85

 

[Yooper]

I would use a 90 minute boil with this malt, as it seems very lightly kilned (same as pilsner malt) and it's better to be safe than sorry.

 

[ol-hazza]

Cool, glad I know.