Heineken Drink-alike

[boingk]

Hey all, I've done this one before [on my second brew, loved it!] amd have stepped it up some from what I did originally. Any ideas on improvements or anything before I throw it in the fermenter? The plan at the moment is to do the recipe as follows:

Wal's Lager can 1.7kg,
600g LDME,
200g Dextrose,
200g Maltodexron,
12g Tettnanger @ 10 minutes,
12g Tettnanger @ flameout.

The boil would be done with the LDME and 3 litres of water, with everything else thrown in at flame-out then crash-cooled before whacking in the fermenter [pre-filled to ~17L with water]. Yeast is Saflager.

Any recommendations for this brew? I've got some Cascade and Tettnanger hops in the freezer, some dex on hand [~300g], and 150g of Munich grain which i was thinking of including but not quite sure how...just whack the post-sparge liquid from it in at flameout with the rest of the goodies?

Cheers all - boingk

 

[boingk]

Got impatient, haha. Heres the recipe as it went into the fermenter:

Wal's Lager can 1.7kg,
600g LDME,
300g Dextrose,
200g Maltodexron,
150g Munich grain,
12g Tettnanger @ 15 minutes,
08g Tettnanger @ flameout.

OG 1.042

Boiled with the sugars and malt all together, and added the kit and sparge at the end. Crash cooled in a sink of cold water for 10 minutes then tipped into fermenter and topped to 23L.

 

[phonos]

What yeast are you using boingk?

It looks good!

Do you know if it will get that hint of tartness that nice fresh heineken has straight from the keg? I haven't figured out how to emulate that yet...

 

[ale_snail]

im a bit confused.

is it a light dry malt extract

or a liquid dark malt extract

 

[DarkFaerytale]

light dry

-Phill

 

[boingk]

Sorry, should have been clearer - its a light dry. A dark heineken would be a bit weird, haha! Interesting though....hmm....

I'm not sure how this batch will turn out, but it should be closer to the real thing than the last one. A side-by-side comparo with the real thing revealed very similar taste, body and carbonation, near identical brightness and colour. Only detracting point was a slight yeasty aftertaste which I'll try and eliminate this time by racking to secondary before bottling [didn't do that originally].

The yeast is S-23, nothing too special but it comes with the Wals cans so I'm not arguing. The LHBS guy told me while I was down there as I went for the commercial packet that I didn't really want to do it, as S-23 comes in the kits anyway. He said I could still buy it if I wanted, but it wouldn't make a difference! Looks like I've made it onto the 'regular' list down there...

I'll keep everyone posted with the results.

Cheers - boingk