Best Lager Kit for a Keg?

[Monkeybrew]

Hi all,

As you are all aware, home brewing can become quite an evangelical hobby and I have enthused a Spanish friend to start brewing.

However, I am a real Ale bod, he likes continental beers/lagers.

He wants a 40 pint kit for a first brew with a mind to kegging for easy Xmass drinking.

Now the plan was to use a kit plus light malt/DME,

Any ideas on what is a reasonably foolproof kit for a new brewer who like lagery beer and wants to keg?

Thanks

Jon

 

[cask is best]

Unless he wants to sup it all in one go say at a party it is not recomended to put lager in a keg I'm afraid.

RegardsCIB

 

[mak]

Yeah you're best bottling it, I would recommend Hambleton Bards lager supreme which is a dry kit so be prepared to beat the hell out of it to get it disolved, or use a hand held blender (my preference) :)

It comes with a liquid hop extract pouch, make sure you get all of that out of there by carefully adding boiled water into it

 

[Will12283]

the first kit I did was a pilsner and I had that in a pressure barrel and it was flat, I learnt from my mistake and now bottle all lager and leave the pressure barrel for my ale/ beer

 

[Monkeybrew]

Okley dokley! I can live with that, it'll just be a bigger learning curve for him (and me teaching)!

 

[Ian...]

Oh buggers! I'm new to this and haven't read this anywhere on the forum (must have missed it somehow) and I kegged my first lager this morning. It was a cooper pilsner. But I don't think it is a true lager because the instructions were to ferment at standard ale temperatures 18 - 21c which it did a treat. I have also added some pasturised honey, beer enhancer and demerarer sugar. The FG came in at 1003/4. My kegs are S30 injections though. Do you think it will be flat? and if so can I just gas it up?
There's no way I can bottle it. I just haven't the space.

 

[cask is best]

Oh buggers! I'm new to this and haven't read this anywhere on the forum (must have missed it somehow) and I kegged my first lager this morning. It was a cooper pilsner. But I don't think it is a true lager because the instructions were to ferment at standard ale temperatures 18 - 21c which it did a treat. I have also added some pasturised honey, beer enhancer and demerarer sugar. The FG came in at 1003/4. My kegs are S30 injections though. Do you think it will be flat? and if so can I just gas it up?
There's no way I can bottle it. I just haven't the space.

You can keep gassing it up mate but you will use a lot. Try and sup it quick and put some gas in when when you have a session. Try it before you put gas in but my reckoning is it will be flat after a couple of days and will need gassing up every sesh