hello newbie here

[beemer68]

have just started drinkin youngs lager kit and it looks the part but it taste like an real ale not fizzy at all primed bottles with suger but all taste a bit tarty. wife wont drink it maybe i'm looking too much for a pub lager and not a real beer taste:oops:what do you think help please
also just this evening ave just started a munton wheat beer with exrta light spaymalt using 2 x 500g
by the way youngs lager kit may not taste great but i think me missus looks real pretty

[stevezx7r]

Welcome Beemer68. It may taste a bit "ale like" if the kit you made used an ale yeast. What temp was it fermented at? If it was room temp it probably came with an ale yeast. If you want to make a lager the main two things you need are a lager yeast i.e. Saflager and a cold area to ferment at i.e. between 9 and 15.

How long has the beer been left in the bottles? It usually take around a week for the priming sugars to create that fizz but the beer itself would benefit from at least two more weeks after that to mature.

I always thought your missus looked pretty after a few

[sparky Paul]

Did you make the Young's up with sugar? If so, this may be the reason it tastes 'tarty'. If that is the problem, you may find that this taste will diminish as it ages. If your lager is flat, it would indicate that the priming sugar hasn't been used up yet, so it should really taste a little sweet if anything... so perhaps something else went wrong...

As steve says, you need to keep the bottles at fermenting temperature for a week or so to condition. Although that will build up a good bit of pressure, I always find that lagers take months to reach the level of carbonation which is necessary - for some reason it builds up much more slowly than in bitters, etc.

Even when using an ale yeast, I've made some reasonable approximations of a lager. However, to get that lager bite in the taste, I haven't found any alternative to adding extra hops - there's been a few posts in the kits section discussing adding hops to lagers.