Looking into my 1st lager....

[houghton19]

Hi guys, I have done 2 sets of wine with success, and was looking at doing a larger, Both me and the wife like larger with a taste like stella, can anyone point me to a recipe and tutorial of a similar taste please.

I have 4 19ltr water bottles, 2 5ltr bottles (will buy more to use the cleaned water out of them as its easy :) ) i have thermostat and hydrometer.

anything else i will need?

thanks in advance.

Tim.

 

[PD]

a dictionary............its Lager

 

[marksa222]

a dictionary............its Lager

Meow! Must have been the stella reference lol.

My personal experience with kit beers, is don't bother with Lager. I think, at best you might get an average lager that takes a fair time to get to its mediocre best. If I was going to do another one, I would try one which comes with proper lager yeast that requires control of temperature (actually, i'd try an ag one rather than a kit). Most come with ale yeast, and doesn't quite work for me.

If you really want to do one, the how to section is your best bit.

 

[Grumpy Jack]

For a really good kit ale that I have served to lager drinkers with very favourable comments, try Coopers Sparkling Ale.

 

[graysalchemy]

a dictionary............its Lager

The pendants out again :whistle: :whistle:

 

[dennisking]

a dictionary............its Lager

The pendants out again :whistle: :whistle:

How can we hide this thread from Moley :hmm:

 

[NickW]

All the laughter aside...

In all honesty, you will struggle to get a good lager with the most basic equipment. You really do need a way of controlling the temperature of your fermentation, a brew fridge or similar, plus lager yeast, and a VERY good kit, or preferably a well thought out all grain brew.

If you are just starting out and want good home brew, buy a 2 can ale kit.

Sorry if this doesn't help

 

[dennisking]

Although lager kits have a bad press I would browse our kit review section, there are several lager reviews in the A to Z section that might help.

 

[marksa222]

There are some good reviews for lager kits on here, and maybe given time, you could get something comparable in quality to f****rs or one of the other puddles of piss you can get down the spar, but i'd take some convincing that you could get anything even in the same league as a good continental style lager (quite fond of Budvar at the mo, also warsteiner and bitburger are in my fridge currently).

Maybe i'm a lager snob after visiting Germany a few times. I had an absolutely fantastic beer in the viktualienmarkt in Munich not so long ago. It's almost worth the trip back there just for that!

 

[houghton19]

Thanks for all the advice and I'm so sorry piddle dribbler that I'm not the best speller, or have the best grammar known to man. I get by in life with my lack of spelling. Everyone else got what I meant. Maybe they are brighter than us both.... Me for my lack of spelling and your lack of grasping what I actually meant.

To everyone else thanks and it's given me more to think about.

 

[PD]

we knew what you meant....
Its just that its a regular occurence that a noobie does and it has become somewhat of a forum joke.
sorry if it offended you and i will try and remember your lack of humour in future.

Apologise again.....

 

[graysalchemy]

Larger instead of Lager is a bit of a standing joke on here and someone who puts Larger is bound to get jumped on.

However I agree with you forum pedants can be annoying :twisted: .

I too suffer from appalling spelling, grammar and terrible typing skills. But hey I get my message across. :grin: :grin:

 

[PD]

forum pendants.HA !

Carling Carling. Fosters and John Smiths to you.....


:clap: :clap: :clap:

 

[graysalchemy]

forum pendants.HA !

Carling Carling. Fosters and John Smiths to you.....


:clap: :clap: :clap:

Wash your mouth out PD thats just bloody swearing :lol:

And its nothing to do with being a pedant but being a beer snob :sulk: :sulk:

 

[Sandimas]

Although lager kits have a bad press I would browse our kit review section

+1

I did Coopers European last winter and it turned out rather good, I was pleasantly surprised, having experienced the horror of Boots Lager homebrew kits in the 1980s :shock: It uses a lager yeast so you'll need somewhere cool to ferment, did mine at 12C - also used a hop tea bag for a bit of extra flavour.

 

[Kinleycat]

Brewed quite a few of these (various lager kits) this year.
Without question the Coopers Euro lager was the best.
Fermented at about 12c for three weeks with the supplied lager yeast.
Avoid the Youngs kits unless you are going to brew really short as they are like pish!!

 

[Antony]

Personally I'd be tempted to try a wilkos golden ale kit, and give it a big prime to make it fizzy, and serve it really cold

 

[Kinleycat]

Golden ale is far too nice to serve very cold.

 

[houghton19]

Sorry piddle dribbler, I thought it was a actual dig. Normally my s o humour is better than my spelling.

 

[GavH]

I can only assume from some of the nay-sayers here that they've not done a lager kit lately. I'd also add weight to the vote of confidence in the Coopers European Lager kit which certainly looks, smells and tastes like a lager. If you really want a continental taste, dry hop it with something appropriate though. I'm doing a Coopers Pilsner kit now as the cooler months are ideal for doing Lager kits and - more importantly - giving it the appropriate length of time to condition after concluding primary fermentation.