Kolsch Recipe

You just need pale two row or pilsner malt to hit a starting gravity of 10451050 a couple of additions of noble german hops to get 1824 ibus and a top fermenting koelsch yeast.

Kolsch recipe. A clean crisp delicately balanced beer usually with very subtle fruit flavors and aromas. On the plus side a koelsch recipe is about as simple as you can imagine see below for a starter recipe. Koelsch ale recipe using german 2 row pilsner malt and tettnanger hops. 50 recipes found that match your criteria.

It also uses the special white labs yeast made especially for kolsch beers. There are so many wonderful recipes out there. The koelsch konvention also demands that the beer must be pale in color be top fermented hop accentuated highly attenuated and between 11 and 14 0p. Subdued maltiness throughout leads to a pleasantly refreshing tang in the finish.

Most will use a combination of pilsner and vienna malts with the balance tilting substantially toward the pils though mine is about a 6040 split. Since you cannot brew a real koelsch beer unless you adhere to the strict ingredients and process guidelines and do so in the cologne area you can try your hand at a kolsch style ale. Koelschbier is traditionally given a long cold aging period like a lager which makes for a very smooth and clean beer. This pale light bodied golden ale is copyrighted by brewed in and named for the german city of koeln.

Below is chris peach kolsch style ale recipe. The bjcp style guide says. The free state brewery in lawrence kansas brews a kolsch using wyeast european ale. The goose island brewery in chicago brews a kolsch using a kolsch yeast from germany.

This yeast is suggested by fred eckhardt. Being fruit flavored it is perfect for summer.