easy larger kit

[Sigmund]

As it's hot weather now I want to brew a larger, something like Carling but stronger. Can anyone suggest an easy kit?

My kitchen is about 27 C at the moment would that make it ferment faster?

 

[sampy]

that sounds like a wiked plan you could get faster turn round, probably redy in wek. :thumb:

 

[FatCol]

I've just done a Finlandia Premium Lager bought from Home Brew Online for £8 because its BBE Sept 2014. Don't know what it's like yet, as I've only just bottled it, but it smells great. Made with 500g light DME and 500g dextrose. It was quick as well, only about 5 days to fully ferment at a steady 20-21 degrees.

The nice thing about the Finlandia kit is it gives you multiple choices for quantity and ABV - anything from 4.8% at 23ltrs to 6.2% at 18ltrs.

Attached is a scan of the instructions

FatCol

 

[FatCol]

Scan as promised.

 

[Smileysmiles]

No such thing. Lager is hard.

 

[Smileysmiles]

Just read op this is a joke right.

 

[Sigmund]

Thanks fatcol.

Smileysmiles, I have looked through and dont get what I said that was funny, I'm on a tablet and it autocorrects things wrongly sometimes and I realist it put larger not lager, sorry. I've only done hard cider before so I'm new to beer, I read coopers Aussie lager instructions online which I'm sure said 21-27 C so what's wrong with my question?

 

[phildo79]

Just brewed a Cooper's Cerveza. Was ready to drink within 2 - 3 weeks but it was kept at around 20 degrees. After a month it was actually quite nice. I wouldn't normally drink that style of beer but it turned out better than I thought.

Ignored the Cooper's instructions and just used 1kg of dextrose.

 

[Frogbrew]

Try wilkos mexican cerveza, £10 and very nice on a hot day. I've done two now with a third one waiting to go in the fv. Try adding lime juice to your glass, luuurvly.

 

[tippseyTony]

I've just done a Finlandia Premium Lager bought from Home Brew Online for £8 because its BBE Sept 2014. Don't know what it's like yet, as I've only just bottled it, but it smells great. Made with 500g light DME and 500g dextrose. It was quick as well, only about 5 days to fully ferment at a steady 20-21 degrees.

The nice thing about the Finlandia kit is it gives you multiple choices for quantity and ABV - anything from 4.8% at 23ltrs to 6.2% at 18ltrs.

Attached is a scan of the instructions

FatCol

I expect its ale yeast at those temps.
I'm brewing coopers European which comes with lager yeast. Brew in fridge at 12c to 14c for three weeks , then carb for two , and then bottles back into beer fridge for a month to lager . Then party. :p

 

[Smileysmiles]

27c is far to hot. You need to be shooting for 20 at most. But the euro lager has lager yeast so you should be shooting for 12-14

 

[tippseyTony]

27c is far to hot. You need to be shooting for 20 at most. But the euro lager has lager yeast so you should be shooting for 12-14

That's correct 12c to 14c .but the euro instruction say 18 to 24 yeah right . For a new brewers thats a little misleading .

 

[Maffa]

Just read op this is a joke right.

:rofl::lol: Must be

 

[sampy]

Why do you think so some of us dont have the experence that you guys obviously have, but thats wot the instructons say so why wouldnt you believe wot is said.

 

[reddibaggie]

Thanks fatcol.

Smileysmiles, I have looked through and dont get what I said that was funny, I'm on a tablet and it autocorrects things wrongly sometimes and I realist it put larger not lager, sorry. I've only done hard cider before so I'm new to beer, I read coopers Aussie lager instructions online which I'm sure said 21-27 C so what's wrong with my question?

As long as it's not the coopers pilsner, coopers kits use ale yeast, which is why you can brew it at such a high temp.

 

[BIGJIM72]

Want to brew larger? Get a bigger bucket

 

[Slid]

As it's hot weather now I want to brew a larger, something like Carling but stronger. Can anyone suggest an easy kit?

My kitchen is about 27 C at the moment would that make it ferment faster?

Hi Sigmund, 27C is really a bit warm for brewing, especially since the brewing process itself will raise the temps by a few degrees.

If you can wait until tomorrow, when it will **** it down all day by all accounts, my suggestion is the Coopers Original Lager - white tin, green lid. Get yourself some DME if possible - 500g is fine and sold at Wilko, for instance, as is the Coopers Kit and add 1kg sugar as per instuctions.

This is as close to easy as it gets, but I would advise that even with the heat tolerant Coopers yeast, a temp above 22C will not get you drinkable beer any quicker, due to the necessity for the yeast to "clear up" unwanted by-products of a high temp fermentation before bottling.

Hope this helps.

 

[Monkeybeer]

I think you need to get it somewhere colder
, you car perhaps?

 

[Smileysmiles]

Hi Sigmund, 27C is really a bit warm for brewing, especially since the brewing process itself will raise the temps by a few degrees.

If you can wait until tomorrow, when it will **** it down all day by all accounts, my suggestion is the Coopers Original Lager - white tin, green lid. Get yourself some DME if possible - 500g is fine and sold at Wilko, for instance, as is the Coopers Kit and add 1kg sugar as per instuctions.

This is as close to easy as it gets, but I would advise that even with the heat tolerant Coopers yeast, a temp above 22C will not get you drinkable beer any quicker, due to the necessity for the yeast to "clear up" unwanted by-products of a high temp fermentation before bottling.

Hope this helps.

Dry hop with sazz and halertau it's a great beer. Even then sub 20c

 

[Monkeybeer]

It's the hop and grain particles dropping out. It will give you the squits if you drink it.