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@pms67 the guys in the shop are both friendly and helpful, like MickDundee found tho I thought it better value to look at the online suppliers and ended up getting a lot more for my buck if ordered via the tinternet. That's not to say the "store" is n- ot a great wee place - just not the Oasis...

Alright Bernaaard - your fermenting temps sounds more like steam beer territory @jceg316 reported that S23 performs well in that region http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=66306 The Euro lager comes with a real lager yeast so I would suspect it would throw up some off flavours...

Coopers Euro Lager with additional yeast assuming you're able to control the fermentation temp

There's a thread over another homebrew site coincidently where a they've provided this link to an article by Mr Malty ; - http://www.mrmalty.com/starter_faq.php Have to say that all my reading on Mr Malty's yeast calculator (rival sites so don't want to offend owners by posting but you can...

Are you doing a Dicetyl (Sp) rest Tim? If it were me I'd be checking where you attenuation is around 10 day mark to try to get your timings right as have read you need to do it before full attenuated. (Sorry if I'm telling you to suck eggs) So around 1.020ish and raise the temp for a couple of...

Alright @Yeastinfection, Brewersfriend yeast calculator says no, I put on bohemian lager malt as your grain at 7.25kg along with 23L brew length and it says for 1.5 rated lager - you need just under 6 packets for a 10C ferment with OG at approx 1.075. I assume this is starting cold. I suppose...

That's good to know re the S-23 - it was a LHBS purchase (the only fermentis lager yeast they stocked) and after I'd bought the packs I started dreading how it would come out but like you haven't noticed anything off - well maybe that the Euro lager was a bit too morish :) but that's all good...

How's it going @JCEG316 :) ? Because I'm still very inexperienced in this beautiful hobby I resisted the temptation to comment on this (haven't even used US-05 yet) but I assumed you were fermenting the lager yeasts at ale/steam beer temps (>15C)? As said in the other thread I've used three...

Glad you raised the subject Beechwood - without getting too bogged down with BJCP guidelines of styles would it make a "not a kick in the baws off" an IPL - like Cesar Augustus? I had a similar idea when I was about to bottle my Coopers Euro Lager, so saved the yeast cake (3 packets of S-23)...

It's funny to see a place I recognise personally on a forum, as regards @MickDundee and @Wfr42's comments re our local homebrew shop. I got my first couple of kits (Brewferm Tarwebier hacked with curaco, corriander saaz and styrian goldings, M20 bavarian wheat niavely fermented at 23c to...

Not a photo but i always liked this graphic

Howdo Jaxx? I'm very new to homebrew also so I would wait for one of the truely knowledgeable folks to add the tuppance but my understanding is that the kit manufacturers really want their product to appeal to new folk so overstate their times so as to make it more appealing. As far as I know...

Alright Notlaw, I’m not sure if this is forum etiquette or not seeing I only really read rather than post but I’ve copied and pasted from Aussiehomebrewer.com (apologies if this is forbidden)J but I reckon you can never have too many sources and they folks seem pretty...

Alright Folks, 1.046 - 1.008

Many thanks for the welcome Gents, head no hurty so much now!!!