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A slight change of pace today, as I go with a Lager recipe. Just for a change. And a Dutch Lager, at that.
As well as expensive beers like Pils and Beiersch, Heineken also had some more attractively priced products.
Just as you had Gerste as a cheap Dark Lager, so you had Lagerbier as a low-budget Pale Lager. You can see all Heineken’s prices here:
Heineken wholesale prices 1904 - 1914
beer type
cents per litre
Gerstebier
8
Lager
8
Rotterdamsche Gerste
11
Münchener
14
Export
14
Beiersch (donker)
13
Pilsner (licht)
13
Bock
15
Source:
1904-1914 - "Korte Geschiedenis der Heineken's Bierbouwerij Maatschappij N.V. 1873 - 1948" (p.218)
The Gerste whose recipe is a few pages back was the more expensive Rotterdamsche Gerste. You can see that this beer, as just 8 cents a litre, was one of Heineken’s cheapest.
Its successor, Licht Lagerbier was brewed in the interwar years but looks like it was killed off by WW II. After the German occupation, the gravities of Heineken’s beers rapidly fell and by October 1943 it had an OG of just 3.9º Plato (1016º).
It’s another very uncomplicated recipe, just pilsner malt and hops.
1911 Heineken Lagerbier
pilsner malt 2 row
8.25 lb
100.00%
Hallertau 90 mins
1.25 oz
OG
1037
FG
1011
ABV
3.44
Apparent attenuation
70.27%
IBU
19
SRM
3
Mash double decoction
Boil time
90 minutes
pitching temp
48º F
Yeast
WLP830 German Lager
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A slight change of pace today, as I go with a Lager recipe. Just for a change. And a Dutch Lager, at that.
As well as expensive beers like Pils and Beiersch, Heineken also had some more attractively priced products.
Just as you had Gerste as a cheap Dark Lager, so you had Lagerbier as a low-budget Pale Lager. You can see all Heineken’s prices here:
Heineken wholesale prices 1904 - 1914
beer type
cents per litre
Gerstebier
8
Lager
8
Rotterdamsche Gerste
11
Münchener
14
Export
14
Beiersch (donker)
13
Pilsner (licht)
13
Bock
15
Source:
1904-1914 - "Korte Geschiedenis der Heineken's Bierbouwerij Maatschappij N.V. 1873 - 1948" (p.218)
The Gerste whose recipe is a few pages back was the more expensive Rotterdamsche Gerste. You can see that this beer, as just 8 cents a litre, was one of Heineken’s cheapest.
Its successor, Licht Lagerbier was brewed in the interwar years but looks like it was killed off by WW II. After the German occupation, the gravities of Heineken’s beers rapidly fell and by October 1943 it had an OG of just 3.9º Plato (1016º).
It’s another very uncomplicated recipe, just pilsner malt and hops.
1911 Heineken Lagerbier
pilsner malt 2 row
8.25 lb
100.00%
Hallertau 90 mins
1.25 oz
OG
1037
FG
1011
ABV
3.44
Apparent attenuation
70.27%
IBU
19
SRM
3
Mash double decoction
Boil time
90 minutes
pitching temp
48º F
Yeast
WLP830 German Lager
This, and many other wonderful Lager recipes, features in Let's Brew!
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