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Howdy All

This is a great site. I have been lurking for a while as a guest, but recently registered.

I want to make a nice easy drinking lager. Any suggestions or improvemnts on this recipe??:

Coopers Lager Can (or Blue Mountain)
1.5 kg light liquid malt extract
500g dry wheat malt extract
Hallatau Hops 24g (30 minutes) ???
Saaz Hops 12g (10 minutes) ???
Saflager yeast

I plan to ferment at 12 degrees, rack and then cold condition etc.

Im not too sure about the amount of hops and time in boil?

Many Thanks

TARLOX

That looks pretty good mate, my standard k+k lager is a brewcraft dutch lager and a german lager kit converter, comes out very much like heineken but what you have there should be a top brew

tarlox wrote:Howdy All

This is a great site. I have been lurking for a while as a guest, but recently registered.

I want to make a nice easy drinking lager. Any suggestions or improvemnts on this recipe??:

Coopers Lager Can (or Blue Mountain)
1.5 kg light liquid malt extract
500g dry wheat malt extract
Hallatau Hops 24g (30 minutes) ???
Saaz Hops 12g (10 minutes) ???
Saflager yeast

I plan to ferment at 12 degrees, rack and then cold condition etc.

Im not too sure about the amount of hops and time in boil?

Many Thanks

TARLOX

G'day Tarlox,

I would go the Morgans Blue Mountain as I think it has a nicer taste.

Rest sounds good to me.

Cheers

Boonie

Yep - agree with Boonie on that one. The Morgans was a great lager and, unfortunately, was hugely popular with my friends.

How I miss that lager.

However, as Lethal said, you're on the money with that recipe. Just make sure you lager it.

Thanks for the quick replies.

I will give it a go with the Blue mountain in the next week or so. (I have to wait until the TCB Wetpak American Ale has finished its time in the brew fridge).

Tarlox

Tarlox,
The recipe does look good, when I used to make K&K the Blue Mountains lager was one of the best kits I made; just a couple of suggestions the 30minute hop addition, make a later addition at around 10minutes instead which will add more flavour and less bitterness.

Also cut back a bit on the malt, you won't need 2Kgs of malt unless your after a 6%+ beer, I'd leave out the wheat malt altogether or add 100g max. With 2kgs of malt you will get a heavy beer a bit out of style for a lager, if you are after a high alc. beer then replace some of the malt with dextrose.

Cheers
AC

Thanks AC

I guess with the wheat i was aiming for something a bit like Stella.

I might cut back on the malt and wheat a bit and aim at a FG of around 1016.

I thought the extra bitterness from the 30min boil might be needed to balance out the malt content of my proposed recipe?

regards

Tarlox

You might be right, with all that malt you may need a little more bitterness, I'm guess that you will be added about 6-7IBU extra as the Hallertau don't have a high AA%.

AC

For a nice stella clone then go for a muntons premium pilsner, #62 czech kit converter and 500gm of wheat malt, its pretty damn close to stella

Lethal, you really know your clones, I might have to do your Becks recipe. Is it up here?

yeah it is mate but to save you the search here it is once again

Malt shovel 2 row lager
Black rock light liquid malt ( 1 can 1.5kg)
Hallertau hops 25gm (20min boil)
Saaz hops 12 gm ( 2 min boil)
and i use the wyeast czech pilsner yeast but saflager is ok


Enjoy

Cheers mate

I did do a search but couldn't find it.

Thanks again

Welcome