. So I made a bit of time last night or so I thought.The the wife had the day off. So I thought I would get her to put the water on for me. Saving a fair few hours. Well that was a non starter, not a chance. Closely followed by getting home late from work. The end result was 2:00am finsh. Back up at 6:30am to finsh it off. I had to leave the wort filtering for the remainder of the night (4.5hr
). Then a hour treck to work for 8:00am. Think I am going for a nap in the car after this. Anyway, I was looking to make an Amber coloured lager, but I needed it to be quick due to stock levels. So i desided to go the "Steam Lager" route. And this is what I understand of the process. If i am wrong feel free to jump in. Or just cyber spank me
.Quite simple put, Steam beer is a method use in the USA. The idea is to make your lager / beer as per using lager yeast and run it at a higher than normal temp (21-24c) rather than (10-15c). They just can wait can they...(But nore can I). I have tried this before and got a good clean lager from it. You do end up with a slight cross over to lager / beer but it's still nice. The yeast I am using is a Belgium Pills which I keep on agar slops at 4c. It clean, crisp and seems to perform well at higher temperture.
Here the grain list and stuff.
22L at 1.060 = 7% ? 90 mash 67c (bit hight but should give a drier finish)
Lager 68.0
Pale 10.0
Amber 20.0
Munich 2.0
Styrian 3.5 60.00% 27.06g 90min
Saaz 2.1 30.00% 13.53g 30min
Saaz 2.1 10.00% 4.51g 5min
I've still need to re-rack, (I like to do a second racking before Primary fermentation), and add the yeast (small starter of 80ml from the warm wort). Finally do the washing up. My only worry is the amber malt was a bit on fine crush side for me and may be a little harsh with so much in grain bill. I will post pic once I find the camera.
Ace more beer, don't mind not sleeping really. Not if I am creating a beer. 
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