Kolsch Recipe
The goose island brewery in chicago brews a kolsch using a kolsch yeast from germany.
Kolsch recipe. Since you cannot brew a real koelsch beer unless you adhere to the strict ingredients and process guidelines and do so in the cologne area you can try your hand at a kolsch style ale. Koelsch according to the koelsch konvention can only be called koelsch if it is brewed in the cologne metropolitan area. On the plus side a koelsch recipe is about as simple as you can imagine see below for a starter recipe. This yeast is suggested by fred eckhardt.
50 recipes found that match your criteria. Being fruit flavored it is perfect for summer. You just need pale two row or pilsner malt to hit a starting gravity of 10451050 a couple of additions of noble german hops to get 1824 ibus and a top fermenting koelsch yeast. This pale light bodied golden ale is copyrighted by brewed in and named for the german city of koeln.
Koelsch ale recipe using german 2 row pilsner malt and tettnanger hops. Koelschbier is traditionally given a long cold aging period like a lager which makes for a very smooth and clean beer. The bjcp style guide says. Most will use a combination of pilsner and vienna malts with the balance tilting substantially toward the pils though mine is about a 6040 split.
The koelsch konvention also demands that the beer must be pale in color be top fermented hop accentuated highly attenuated and between 11 and 14 0p. The free state brewery in lawrence kansas brews a kolsch using wyeast european ale. It also uses the special white labs yeast made especially for kolsch beers. Koelsch abv 5 ibu 3083 srm 3 fermentables.
There are so many wonderful recipes out there. Koelsch allows for a lot of freedom and interpretation in the recipe.