Archive for September, 2009
Making Lager Beer
What beer type ferments best at 60 degrees?
My basement is 60 degrees. I’ve read that ale ferments best at 70 and lager ferments best at 50. I’d like to try brewing lager but I don’t want to use any heating devices so it needs to work at 60.
Any suggestions for this? Ideally I’d like to make a heavy lager, somewhere between foster’s and molson canadian.
Scottish ales ferment very well at about 60 degrees.
Fermentation temperatures are important when it comes to the yeast. Different yeasts perform differently at different temperatures. Scottish ale yeast likes it around 60 degrees. You could use Irish ale yeast and most British yeasts at this temperature, but fermentation time will be longer and the beers may be less estery.
You use use European Ale Yeast (Wyeast) at 60 degrees to make a good tasting lager. At this temperature, the yeast is very clean.
Steam beers, by the way, are not fermented at 60 degrees.
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