please help me to make homebrew

[farmer giles]

Im new to all of this and would appreciate some help from anyone who has a good, drinkable lager homebrew, the cheaper the better aswell lol

many thanks

 

[Mike1981]

If its a kit you want to make then coopers european perhaps, or coopers mexican cerveza. :

 

[Fender Precision]

Try a coopers kit, steer clear of "Lagers" for a while as they take about 3 months to mature and require low temperature fermentation. Coopers canadian blonde is an easy one and ready to swallow in 4 to 6 weeks. this will ferment @ room temp "20 something" degrees. Ales and bitters are also the most forgiving kits for a beginner. Im only brewing kits since January this year and can do so with ease thanks to this forum. All the best with your beer !!

 

[nuggitmv]

coopers are great for beginners, get yourself a good beginners starting kit,sterilise everything that the beer will touch- fv, bottles syphon, tubes etc. Basically, kits are made with a can of malt and a bag of sugur but i think by dropping the bag of sugar and using two cans of malt, makes for a much better, richer tasting beer. if you want more help let me know....

 

[Lobes]

I'd highly recommend the Woodforde's Wherry kits. They take longer to clear than most, but they're bloody tasty!

[edit] Just re-read your original post and noticed you were after a lager kit! Don't bother, try an ale kit!! :grin:

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Im the cheaper the better aswell

You'll find with brewing that cheap is nasty.

 

[Grumpy Jack]

Cooper sparkling ale is a brew to convert drinkers of nasty chemical lagers to the qualities of real ale, it's an absolute cracker for the summer BBQ season and has the desired effect of making getting off yer a*se just too much hassle after the third bottle... :

 

[farmer giles]

thanks for the advice think Im guna give coopers a try from the sounds of it, anyone know of any kits similar to newcastle brown ale in taste, I love me newquay brown

many thanks

Cooper sparkling ale is a brew to convert drinkers of nasty chemical lagers to the qualities of real ale, it's an absolute cracker for the summer BBQ season and has the desired effect of making getting off yer a*se just too much hassle after the third bottle... :

 

[Mark1964]

We brew lager it takes 2 weeks from start to finish and it ferments at 18 degrees c :thumb:

 

[luckyeddie]

thanks for the advice think Im guna give coopers a try from the sounds of it, anyone know of any kits similar to newcastle brown ale in taste, I love me newquay brown

many thanks


[quote="Grumpy Jack":1rx456lz]Cooper sparkling ale is a brew to convert drinkers of nasty chemical lagers to the qualities of real ale, it's an absolute cracker for the summer BBQ season and has the desired effect of making getting off yer a*se just too much hassle after the third bottle... :

[/quote:1rx456lz]

You might consider trying Munton's Nut Brown Ale. I've never tried it, but Munton's kits are always reliable. I believe that John Bull do a pretty decent brown ale too. Both are readily available from brew shops. How close they are to Newky I don't know though. I suspect that the yeast is what gives Newky its characteristic flavour, and not just the grain

A quick look through other sites revealed something interesting.

Some guy made a Brewferm Abdij (Abbey) kit, then instead of throwing the trub (the excess yeast) away, he pitched it into a Munton's Nut Brown Ale kit (not bothering with the Munton's yeast). He said that the resultant brew was 'very similar' to Newky.

I find that the Belgian yeasts (Brewferm are a Belgian kit company) tend to produce a much more complex tasting beer than the English ale yeasts. At the moment I am using almost exclusively Belgian yeasts for many very different types of beer, so this is very much worth considering.

 

[farmer giles]

what kit are you using for that then?

We brew lager it takes 2 weeks from start to finish and it ferments at 18 degrees c :thumb:

 

[farmer giles]

thanks for the advice I will definitely give that a try

thanks for the advice think Im guna give coopers a try from the sounds of it, anyone know of any kits similar to newcastle brown ale in taste, I love me newquay brown

many thanks


[quote="Grumpy Jack":194fkj2h]Cooper sparkling ale is a brew to convert drinkers of nasty chemical lagers to the qualities of real ale, it's an absolute cracker for the summer BBQ season and has the desired effect of making getting off yer a*se just too much hassle after the third bottle... :

You might consider trying Munton's Nut Brown Ale. I've never tried it, but Munton's kits are always reliable. I believe that John Bull do a pretty decent brown ale too. Both are readily available from brew shops. How close they are to Newky I don't know though. I suspect that the yeast is what gives Newky its characteristic flavour, and not just the grain

A quick look through other sites revealed something interesting.

Some guy made a Brewferm Abdij (Abbey) kit, then instead of throwing the trub (the excess yeast) away, he pitched it into a Munton's Nut Brown Ale kit (not bothering with the Munton's yeast). He said that the resultant brew was 'very similar' to Newky.

I find that the Belgian yeasts (Brewferm are a Belgian kit company) tend to produce a much more complex tasting beer than the English ale yeasts. At the moment I am using almost exclusively Belgian yeasts for many very different types of beer, so this is very much worth considering.[/quote:194fkj2h]

 

[philip5660]

I'd disagree with the comments on muntons kits being reliable, I've done two which suffered stuck fermentations, there's a few threads on the forum about this . Don't get me wrong the beer wasn't bad I just had a lot of hassle trying to it to ferment . For beginners its coopers all the way!