Grain Bill & Hop Schedule for Cisco Summer of Lager Clone?

[Thunder_Chicken]

Cisco, a favorite local brewery down in Nantucket, puts out a great lager every summer. A good review of it is here:

http://thebrews.org/2011/06/02/honorable-mention-summer-of-lager-cisco-brewers-nantucket/

I don't have a lagering freezer but would like to attempt a lager over next winter (my equipment room is a very steady 50F during the winter). I'd definitely like to emulate this particular lager as much as possible; I'd be proud if my product came out half as good. From the article:

... it is a Munich Helles Lager and one of Cisco’s lightest beers. It is made with Belgian lager malt, Munich malt, and wheat malt; it is instilled with Mt. Hood hops and Hallertau.

I do not know where they get this information but it I'll use it as a starting point as I don't have any reason to not believe it. It is a pretty standard but very good lager, certainly not far from a European style lager.

The review of the flavor is spot on. It has a nice noble hop afterbite, but not overwhelming. Very nice balance, just enough malt and no more. Very stubborn head, even in crappy glassware.

Can anyone help me translate the above ingredients into a grain bill and hop schedule? A partial mash alternative would be very welcome, but I can attempt a smaller all grain batch with my kitchen equipment.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

Let me throw this out as a first stab:

5 gallon batch

7 lbs Belgian pilsner malt
0.5 lbs Munich malt
0.5 lbs Wheat malt
0.25 lbs carapils

Mt Hood 0.5 oz 45 min
Mt Hood 0.5 oz 30 min
Hallertau 0.5 oz 10 min
Hallertau 0.5 oz 5 min

This gives me (based on my spreadsheet), at 70% efficiency, an OG of 1.048 and 19.3 IBUs which are in style guidelines.

I would probably modify the recipe for extract as follows:

1.5 gallon boil / BIAB mash

1 lbs Belgian pilsner malt
0.5 lbs Munich malt
0.5 lbs Wheat malt
0.25 lbs carapils

Hop schedule as above, add 4 lbs extra light or pilsner DME at flameout, makeup water for 5 gallons. Almost identical OG (1.047) and IBUs (21.1).

The extract recipe is what I would probably do for my kitchen equipment. Anybody have any tweaks or suggestions?

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

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