Description
HutchWeizer
Lite American Lager
HutchWeizer is the beer you are going to want to run to when you have finished mowing the lawn on a hot summer day! Designed by our very own Hutch, this beer is low in ABV but high in flavor!
If you are a competition leaning brewer, this beer would probably fit best into the Lite American Lager category 1A. We start with a base of Pilsner Malt, which keeps it light in color while building a solid foundation for the rest of the beer. The trick when brewing a low abv beer such as this (3.6%) is to have enough specialty malts to give it some character and body, but not so much that it overpowers the base malt. Hutch accomplishes this using a blend of Vienna Malt, Golden Naked Oats, Victory Malt, and Acidulated Malt. Low in bittering and high in aroma, Hallertau Mittelfruh and Saaz hops form the hop character of the beer. The yeast is California Lager yeast which can be fermented a little warmer than most lager yeasts.
Hutch likes to brew this using a step mash with rests at 122° (15 min), 145° (30 min), and 158° (30 min) which helps to create a very fermentable wort, and a thick rocky head that sticks around for days! We have simplified this to a single infusion mash below. If you have fermentation temperature control, another option would be to use a standard lager yeast such as Imperial L13 Global, or White Labs WLP830.
