Coopers Aussie lager 30/8/07
Coopers Aussie lager 30/8/07
Last night i started my second brew. A Coopers aussie lager which i have high hopes for. I have done things a bit different from my first brew which will hopefully make for a better brew.
I've done quite a detailed description of the proceedings and please feel free to chip in with suggestion of things which could have been done different. I decided not to re-hydrate the yeast purely because the thought of doing this for some reason scares the b******s off me.
I decided to go for 750g Muntons light spraymalt and 250g brewing sugar and i used the ale yeast supplied.
Here's everything gathered together ready to go.
First up i cleaned, sterilised and rinsed and rinsed and rinsed and rinsed and rinsed again everything i needed. After that i filled a barrel with 16ltr water and added half a camden tablet.
I boiled some water in a pan to warm the can in. Boiled another couple of litres to mix the can contents in and then weighed out my spraymalt and brewing sugar.
While the can was warming i dissolved my spraymalt in 2 ltrs of luke warm water and then brought back to the boil.
Once that was done i then put my 2 ltr of boiled water in the fermentor with the can contents my 250g of brewing sugar and my boiled spraymalt and gave a damn good stir.
next i topped up the fermentor with the water from my barrel, having placed the barrel on the work top edge and ran the water from the tap and gave another good stir.
Checked the temperature next and took an og reading, quite hard to read but think it was 1032.
I then put my yeast in and got my step daughter to start aerating it, while i took the pic and then took over and gave it a good 5 minute thrashing.
Job done, this is just before i popped the lid on and just cracked the edge open and placed in the cupboard.
That was that. 24 hours later and it's coming on a treat.
One question, what kind of fg should i expect to get, ish,?
I do like to name my beer so the wife suggested calling it Coopers Old Vic, because i'm always moaning!
Paul
I've done quite a detailed description of the proceedings and please feel free to chip in with suggestion of things which could have been done different. I decided not to re-hydrate the yeast purely because the thought of doing this for some reason scares the b******s off me.
I decided to go for 750g Muntons light spraymalt and 250g brewing sugar and i used the ale yeast supplied.
Here's everything gathered together ready to go.
First up i cleaned, sterilised and rinsed and rinsed and rinsed and rinsed and rinsed again everything i needed. After that i filled a barrel with 16ltr water and added half a camden tablet.
I boiled some water in a pan to warm the can in. Boiled another couple of litres to mix the can contents in and then weighed out my spraymalt and brewing sugar.
While the can was warming i dissolved my spraymalt in 2 ltrs of luke warm water and then brought back to the boil.
Once that was done i then put my 2 ltr of boiled water in the fermentor with the can contents my 250g of brewing sugar and my boiled spraymalt and gave a damn good stir.
next i topped up the fermentor with the water from my barrel, having placed the barrel on the work top edge and ran the water from the tap and gave another good stir.
Checked the temperature next and took an og reading, quite hard to read but think it was 1032.
I then put my yeast in and got my step daughter to start aerating it, while i took the pic and then took over and gave it a good 5 minute thrashing.
Job done, this is just before i popped the lid on and just cracked the edge open and placed in the cupboard.
That was that. 24 hours later and it's coming on a treat.
One question, what kind of fg should i expect to get, ish,?
I do like to name my beer so the wife suggested calling it Coopers Old Vic, because i'm always moaning!
Paul
Cheers Daab man, yeah pretty pleased with how things went with this one. Enjoyed this one more than the first, probably cos i felt a bit more confident with what i was doing. Just a few worries about kegging it really, as expressed in another post, what with being new to the shiny corny club.
I'm gonna get a bitter on the go once this is kegged and i'm gonna put my yeast re-hydrating phobia behind me and give it a go.
Paul
I'm gonna get a bitter on the go once this is kegged and i'm gonna put my yeast re-hydrating phobia behind me and give it a go.
Paul
Great pics there Beer Monster, and I think it is great you have got the step daughter involved.
And your confidence does lift with each batch, its no different to learning to cook really. I keep having to remind myself that its only 10 months since I did my first kit, and now I can get the flow of a brewing day nicely.
Well done with the documentation
And your confidence does lift with each batch, its no different to learning to cook really. I keep having to remind myself that its only 10 months since I did my first kit, and now I can get the flow of a brewing day nicely.
Well done with the documentation