Any Suggestions For Lager

[hamstringsally]

does anyone have any good suggestions for a lager? tomorrow night is brew night and im after a lager thats i guess a common beer. nice to drink but mainstream beer flavor? when i say mainstream i guess i mean no crazy over powering flavors. just a beer most people will enjoy.


cheers

 

[bum]

I don't make lagers much myself but Morgans Blue Mountain Lager seems to have a very good name if you're just after a straight kit. Dunno if the yeast is genuine lager or not but the temps on the tin should give you a clue.

 

[daemon]

If you don't have decent temperature control for your yeast (lager yeast needs to be at about 10c), you can try a yeast like US-05 for a nice clean ale. For a kit based brew just a Coopers Draught + BE2 + US05 (and try to keep the temperature down around 20c) will be perfectly drinkable, or the Morgans kit (as suggested by bum) has a lot of good feedback. For a bit of extra flavour like a mainstream "premium" lager you could use some finishing hops (Hallertau would be a nice example), the teabag style steeped in some hot water will work fine.

 

[Rurik]

Two of my favourites are Morgans Charmans Selection Cortes Cervesa and Morgans Blue Mountains Larger. The Cervesa comes out a cracker when brewed as a larger and largered for 21 days at -2 to 2 degrees and the Larger is near bullit proof with the yeast under the lid but will be better for using w 34/70 and largered as well.

Just my two dracma

Rurik

 

[hamstringsally]

Two of my favourites are Morgans Charmans Selection Cortes Cervesa and Morgans Blue Mountains Larger. The Cervesa comes out a cracker when brewed as a larger and largered for 21 days at -2 to 2 degrees and the Larger is near bullit proof with the yeast under the lid but will be better for using w 34/70 and largered as well.

Just my two dracma

Rurik

nice one. I think ill give the morgans blue mountains larger a crack. if i upgrade the yeast what should i get. at the moment ive got another fermenter going in my fridge which is a week in running at 11 deg in my fridge. would this be a good temp to put it in? also any hops for that as well or does just the can come up nice?

 

[SirDrinkalot]

Coopers Canadian Blonde

 

[rendo]

Nothing wrong with the coopers premium euro lager....aslong as u have temp control.

Takes 2-3months in the bottle to mature. As most real lagers can do.

Rendo

does anyone have any good suggestions for a lager? tomorrow night is brew night and im after a lager thats i guess a common beer. nice to drink but mainstream beer flavor? when i say mainstream i guess i mean no crazy over powering flavors. just a beer most people will enjoy.


cheers

 

[theMISSIONARY]

Black Rock "Dry Lager" is a nice drop with some light malt added Even Coopers Lager will do well with some Light malt and W34/70 yeast.....lots of Lagering needed tho

 

[daveHQ]

Nothing wrong with the coopers premium euro lager....aslong as u have temp control.

Takes 2-3months in the bottle to mature. As most real lagers can do.

Rendo

i just bottled a coopers european lager, i'll let you know the results in 12 weeks

it's the only coopers kit that uses a true lager yeast, i used a pack of brew enhancer 1

 

[jivesucka]

brewcraft make a munich lager which only needs the regular requirements on the 1kg of dex. layed one down about 1 hour ago with 15g fuggles and 15g of northern brewer hops.