Hi Tony,
My lager has ended up crapping out. Not quite sure what went wrong but it seems to have picked up an infection. It never really seemed particularly happy. The gravity never really dropped below 1020 after 3 weeks with OG of 1042. First batch of beer I have lost since I started brewing about 10 years ago. A sad day...
I had it temp controlled the whole period so not quite sure. I had finished reading Charlie Papazian's book and he mentioned boiling tins to get a fuller flavour of beer so I tried that with the lager. So maybe that destroyed the integrity of the tinned extract or something. There was always something not quite right with the beer. So won't bother boiling extract again. I am building up parts for BIAB, so will start trying that sometime soon.
I am thinking next time of doing a starter of the yeast so it can really power into the fermentation straight away. But I'd like to get my two kegs filled so I am good for beer for 2 months or so before starting another lager. That will have to wait until end of April when I will have stock up.
Thanks,
Angus.
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Hi ANGUS,
I put down my lager not long after this thread, it was a asahi clone. Used S 23 at 12 d, it took almost 3 weeks to finish .My wife loves it, it is a dry light lager, almost like a corona. Anyhow like you said, unless you have time, better of sticking to the ales
Cheers