Ingredients

• Ingredients for Miller Lite Lager Beer
  • American 2-row pale malt: 8 lbs (3.6 kg)
  • Corn grits: 1 lb (0.45 kg)
  • Rice flakes: 0.5 lb (0.23 kg)
  • Saaz hops (bittering hops): 0.5 oz (14 grams)
  • Cascade hops (aroma hops): 0.5 oz (14 grams)
  • Lager beer yeast: 1 packet
  • Water : 5 gallons (19 litres)

Instructions

• 1 Mash
  • 1 Heat 3.5 gallons (13 litres) of water in a large brew kettle to around 162°F (72°C).
  • 2 Add the American 2-row pale malt, corn grits, and rice flakes to a mesh grain bag or directly into the kettle.
  • 3 Stir gently to ensure the grains are fully submerged.
  • 4 Maintain the temperature at around 150-154°F (65-68°C) and let it steep for 60 minutes to convert starches to sugars.
• 2 Sparge
  • 1 Carefully lift the grain bag or strain the liquid from the kettle, collecting it in a separate vessel.
  • 2 Heat an additional 1.5 gallons (5.7 liters) of water to around 170°F (77°C).
  • 3 Slowly pour the hot water over the grains to extract any remaining sugars (sparging).
  • 4 Collect the resulting wort in the brew kettle.
• 3 Boil
  • 1 Bring the wort to a rolling boil in the kettle.
  • 2 Once boiling, add Saaz hops to the kettle and continue boiling for 45 minutes.
• 4 Hop Addition
  • 1 After 45 minutes, add Cascade hops to the kettle and boil for an additional 15 minutes.
• 5 Chill
  • 1 After the full 60 minutes of boiling, remove the kettle from heat.
  • 2 Rapidly cool the wort to around 65°F (18°C) using a wort chiller or an ice bath.
• 6 Fermentation
  • 1 Transfer the cooled wort to a sanitized fermentation vessel (a glass carboy or a food-grade plastic bucket).
  • 2 Pitch the lager beer yeast into the fermentation vessel.
  • 3 Secure the vessel with an airlock, which enables the carbon dioxide to be released while keeping contaminants from entering.
  • 4 Let the beer ferment at a cool temperature (around 50-55°F or 10-13°C) for approximately 2-3 weeks until fermentation is complete.

Nutrition

Serving size: 5 gallons