Recipe help

[Sam Godsiff]

I am planing to brew a lager with

4.2 kg pale malt
340 gr carapils (for head retention)

15g pacifica 60 min
34g pacifica 30 Min
25g pacifica 10Min
25g pacifica 0 Min.

Mash BIAB at 66 degrees for 60 min.
Boil for 60min
Chill to 9 Degrees and pitch 2 pkg mangrove jacks bohemian lager yeast. I would then follow a lager schedule until completion.

What are your thoughts on this as I have never made a lager nor used pacifica hops.would this come out ok?

[Crusader-Rob]

use pilsner malt and boil for 90 mins

i do a psuedo pilsner type beer similar to this, but use 240g carapils and make up the remainder with melanoidin malt, for a little chewyness,

i tend to use a stronger bittering hop like Southern cross or pacific jade at 60 (8-10g normally)

then a 30-10-5-min addition of 25g each of something normall wakatu or motueka

although my 10 min addition is 25g riwaka

at 0 min i ad a 35g addition of the same hop. used mostly throughout (mot/pac/wakatu)

i use US-05 at low temps and raise through the 2 weeks, only because im lazy and want the fast turn around easy crisp beer for summer.

it works well with lager yeast as well. i actually used a pilsner recipe from here somewhere and used ale yeast instead. 

[Sam Godsiff]

I'm looking to use just a single nz hop so that I can buy a kilo later in the year and dial in the recipe to my liking. I'm going to use the bruloshpy fast lager method for a faster turnaround. Would I need to have an additional bittering hop? Is there an nz equivalent of magnum I could use? Any advice?

[Crusader-Rob]

i normally use pacific jade most of the time.

it'll work with single hop.