Some Lager bottling advice needed

[cairnsyla]

'Mornin!
I'm on (admittedly only) my third Lager homegrew - A Youngs German Lager kit.
The two previous attempts were 1st) looked the beezknees, but came out flat and ,2nd) looked great, tasted great, had a slight carbonation, but not really enough.

I've tried both carb drops and a teaspoon of normal sugar in each bottle.
I'm bottled #3 later today, and am going to try to add the priming sugar to the lot first - in a second bucket, so that it's even.

Are there any tips with doing this:
Should I mix the sugars with a couple of pints of warmed brew first?
Add the sugar after syphoning to the 2nd bucket, or syphon onto the sugars?

I don't think I'm going wrong at all with the brewing itself, just the bottling off.

Main aim is to get this right, then put down a few kit brews and then move onto some self-made brews - I just want to get to grips with each phase first - so any advise will be mucho appreciato! :

 

[snail59]

Im only on my second kit brew and by no means an expert but after you've bottled are you putting the bottles in a warm place for around 4/5 days to get the secondry fermentation which causes the carbonation. :hmm:

I just add a teaspoon into each bottle and it works for me.

 

[Sean_Mc]

I'm not a lager drinker and lager yeasts are slightly different from other beers, they ferment at cooler temps.
For myself though I would keep the bottles in the warm for atleast a week to ten days and use glucose not granulated sugar. Then I like to move them somewhere cool for a minimum of three weeks.............couple of months idealy

 

[cairnsyla]

Cheers fellas
All bottled up now - I went for a sugar solution into a second bin, and then syphoned from bin 1 to bin 2, to get an even mix, then bottled and under the stairs for a week.

Now the only problem is my patience!

 

[Sean_Mc]

Forget about them and start another one :thumb:

 

[cairnsyla]

Sterling advice. Any recommendations?
I'd really like to get into making me own brews - not kits. Maybe a nice weissbier to blow me socks off.

 

[Dunfie]

Sterling advice. Any recommendations?
I'd really like to get into making me own brews - not kits. Maybe a nice weissbier to blow me socks off.

Are you considering coming over to the dark side of AG? If you are then there are loads of "how to" threads to explain what you need to get your kit together and Weissbier is a really good and forgiving style to have a go of.