Kit Lager Ratios?!

[Darcey]

Hello!

I have gone all grain.. however as I am sure many of you have found people saying

'oooh home brew.. no thanks Id rather spend £££ bringing crapy lager into your house'

I have a can of Coopers Cerveza at my disposal and I want to make a keg of 'lager'. I dont care if it tastes great.. just a passable so people don't leave their Stella 4 cans in my bin...

on to the question!

I have 1kg of extra light ME and 1kg of 'brewing sugar'..

should I just use the brewing sugar or a combination their of?!

Also... Should I use S04 at 15C or a lager yeast at 15C... as that is the ambient temp of my cellar?

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[shearclass]

You know about this than me mate, but I'd use lager yeast.

The mexican Cerveza kit I did is one of the best ktis I've done. I was unable to lager it as i did not have a fridge at the time. However I did berw at lager temps, then racked and left it at similar lager temps for a month or so before bottling. Ended up tasting more like a Pilsner than a standard supermarket lager.

I normally do the 2 can ale kits, or the 1 can brewferm ktis which are brewed to shorter lengths, ut this simple 1 can kit was amazing. I can;t rememebr how much sugar/ME I used, but I can check when I get home if you are interested? I'll let you knwo which lager yesat I used too if you like. I am fairly sure i brewed it slightly short to about 20L

 

[StrangeBrew]

Coopers recommend their Brew Enhancer No2 for the Cerveza kit which contains...


500 gm Brewing Sugar
250 gm Dry Malt Extract
250 gm Maltodextrin ( for extra body / head retention)


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[Darcey]

Coopers recommend their Brew Enhancer No2 for the Cerveza kit which contains...
500 gm Brewing Sugar
250 gm Dry Malt Extract
250 gm Maltodextrin ( for extra body / head retention}
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I suspect I'll use 50/50 but wanted to see what others had done.

I'll let you knwo which lager yesat I used too if you like. I am fairly sure i brewed it slightly short to about 20L

I think brewing short to 20L (its going in a cornie anyway) will be the key. If your find out can you post for me.

 

[RobWalker]

That kit is meant to be really good! Have a little more faith in it, kit beers are often great so give it a chance :)

My LHBS stock a kit enhancer which is 50/50 Brewing Sugar and DME. I'm sure you know this but using that (roughly) will bring up the ABV without affecting the flavour or body much. I would go 50/50 to ensure it's not malty and not dry...

 

[shearclass]

OK so apparently i used a right mish mash of things.

150g light hopped spray malt
500g Beer kit enhancer
700g dextrose

So thats

150g hopped spray malt
250g plain spray malt
950 g dextrose

Used saflager S-23

OG 1.046, FG 1.004

About 2 weeks fermenting, another 4 weeks or so in another FV, tthen bottled, tasted good as soon as it had carbonated if i remember correctly.

i was well impressed!

 

[Darcey]

I hear good things about this kit.. Hmm. I'll throw it together tomorrow and we shall see! :

 

[shearclass]

I'm going to get another one of these ktis on tonight, my girlfriends unheated spare room is at a perfect larger fermenting temperature!