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Jen and I stopped in at the warehouse sale for the local furniture and appliance store earlier this year. In the past, we've picked up tables and a kitchen set from this sale for a very nice price. We weren't looking for anything in particular this time around, but we did stumble upon a chest freezer that struck our fancy. Jen thought it would be great to put soda and water in it during the summer when the garage is too hot to keep things cool. I, on the other hand, thought it would be a great thing to pick up so I could try my hand at lagering.

I've been poking around for a decent lager recipe to put together and I haven't really come up with anything. There were only a handful of sites that came up when I did a search for "homebrew recipes".

Skotrat - This site has a bunch of recipes to choose from, but they all seem fairly annonymous. I'm pretty sure I don't want to dump four months of work into a lager that has nothing to back its quality up with.

All About Beer - This site looked pretty nice, but I only found a single lager recipe on it. The malt for the recipe requires wheat, and I want to do a straightforward lager the first time around.

After browsing through a few other sites and not coming up with much of anything, I defaulted to John Palmer's How to Brew site and went through the recipes there. If you don't know about it, How to Brew is available in its entirety online. The Vienna lager that he has listed on the site looks like the type of beer I want to put together. It's a dark beer that is lightly hopped, and the other key thing is that I will have to lager it at 35F, something I couldn't do without the chest freezer.

Extracts
6 lbs. of Pale LME
1 lbs. of Amber Malt Extract
1/2 lb. of Dark Extract

Hops
1 oz Liberty (4%) at 45 minutes
2 oz Liberty (4%) at 30 minutes
1 oz Liberty (4%) at 15 minutes

Yeast
Bohemian Lager

Fermentation Schedule
Primary at 45°F for 2 weeks, Secondary for 6 weeks (35°F).

Now it's just a matter of finding all of the ingredients.