Muntons Gold Continental Pilsner

[daveyk]

Hi all,

Just a quick one, (I hope).

I've read a thing or two on this forum about Muntons kits having a tendancy to stick. have I got this right or am I making it up?

I was planning in the fairly near future to brew a Muntons Gold Continental Pilsner. Does this fall into this category and if so is there anything I should do to try and avoid the problem?

Dave.

[stevezx7r]

Hi daveyk, as long as you follow the advice given by those in the know on these forums i.e. clean everything, aerate wort, good yeast etc etc you won't go far wrong.

Steve.

[p2ll]

I was worried about the Muntons thing for this lager too so I added half a teaspoon of yeastvit and double pitched the yeast (s23). It cleared okay and tasted nice so the extra yeast didn't seem to matter.

By the way the final gravity was around 1014 - high for a lager. It was sweet out the barrell suggesting it might go further but it stuck at this reading for a few days and so I bottled it. The hops came through after about four weeks conditioning and tasted excellent.

I did wonder if Muntons are seemed to fail because of this high FG. On aprevious brew (not Muntons) I spent ages trying to the FG down to 1006 as it said on the leaflet, but couldn't get below 1012. After reading this site I realised that all malts rarely go below 1010 so bottled that and that was okay after four weeks conditioning.

Phill