BREWING a German Inspired Helles Lager for OKTOBERFEST! - Lager All Grain Recipe

The Helles Lager (primarily produced in Bavaria - southern Germany) is much maltier and breadier than a classic style pilsner, and “Helles” translates to “brightness” and “light”, describing the golden-hued colour of the lager. It typically sits between 4.5% to 5.5% in abv and is made as a refreshing and crisp style summer beer with a balanced malty, bready base and fresh, zesty hoppiness.

This recipe takes on the fundamentals of the style with a slight wombat twist! Coming in at 5.7%, it sits just above the higher ABV end of the style. As far as hops go, a traditional Helles would use older noble hop varieties. However, we used some fresher fruitier new world hops balanced by the woody earthiness of UK Fuggles for a more summery style zest (and also, it's all we had available at the time!). All in all, making a fresh, malty german style lager with a bit of a twist.

Recipe Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PCSY...

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:40 Ingredients
1:24 Grain Milling
2:00 Malt Types and Flavours
3:49 Vienna Malt
4:33 Mashing/Strike Water
5:28 Mixing Grains
6:34 Helles Lager Style
7:56 PRETZEL?
8:47 Mash 1 hour
9:15 Sparging
9:56 Spent Grain
10:30 Boiling Time
10:57 Why should you use Noble Hops?
11:51 Flavour and Aroma Hop Additions
12:33 Flame Out/Cooling
13:24 Hop Flavour Explanation
14:50 Transferring Wort
15:32 Yeast Flavour Explanation
16:31 Yeast Pitching
17:08 Trub Dump/ Cold crashing
17:48 Outro