Last year I had my first go at a lager. See my previous post "Lager to disaster - Brew antics" if your interested. Any way without going into the details I'm drinking it now and althouth it tastes great There is way too much head! The ingredience were as follows:
1.5kg can of Black Rock dry Lager
1kg of Coopers Brew enhancer #2
500gm of white sugar
Saflager 23.
OG 1.040. This was allowed to ferment at 12degC for two weeks which came down to SG 1.020. Unfortunatly I tasted it and thought that it would be dry so I added a 1.7kg can of Cascade Spicy Ghost? As I had to surrender the fridge to my good wife I let this brew out at 18degC for another week FG 1.002, bulk primed the 23l. with 200gm of Dextrose and bottled in stubbies.
As I mentioned above I'm drinking the beer now and it tastes great and is very alcholic. No idear how alcholic as the addition of the second extract has upset any claculations, I'm guessing its about 8 or 9 percent. However the problem is I get too much head! Currently I open a stubbie let it sit in the fridge for half an hour with a glass in the friezer. Then I can usually manage to carefully pour the contents into an English style pint glass. Two thirds Beer and one third Head, this lasts all the way to the bottom of the glass.
Finally my question is, Why do I have so much head? the problem I have is that I have to anticipate opening one by half an hour and can't simply go to the fridge and grab one. I tried opening one and pouring it into a jug. Half way through the pour I had to stop as I had a jug with an inch of Beer at the bottom of a jug of Head!
Any way I starting to rant so let me appologise for the lenght of this post. I'll shut up now and just be glad that the beer tastes good and that I'm getting any head at all.
1.5kg can of Black Rock dry Lager
1kg of Coopers Brew enhancer #2
500gm of white sugar
Saflager 23.
OG 1.040. This was allowed to ferment at 12degC for two weeks which came down to SG 1.020. Unfortunatly I tasted it and thought that it would be dry so I added a 1.7kg can of Cascade Spicy Ghost? As I had to surrender the fridge to my good wife I let this brew out at 18degC for another week FG 1.002, bulk primed the 23l. with 200gm of Dextrose and bottled in stubbies.
As I mentioned above I'm drinking the beer now and it tastes great and is very alcholic. No idear how alcholic as the addition of the second extract has upset any claculations, I'm guessing its about 8 or 9 percent. However the problem is I get too much head! Currently I open a stubbie let it sit in the fridge for half an hour with a glass in the friezer. Then I can usually manage to carefully pour the contents into an English style pint glass. Two thirds Beer and one third Head, this lasts all the way to the bottom of the glass.
Finally my question is, Why do I have so much head? the problem I have is that I have to anticipate opening one by half an hour and can't simply go to the fridge and grab one. I tried opening one and pouring it into a jug. Half way through the pour I had to stop as I had a jug with an inch of Beer at the bottom of a jug of Head!
Any way I starting to rant so let me appologise for the lenght of this post. I'll shut up now and just be glad that the beer tastes good and that I'm getting any head at all.