Indian beer Cobra Beer

[trickybrew]

Hi all, just wondering if anyone has a recipe for Indian beer ( Cobra )
Thanks all Tricky

[dave-o]

This is made with barley and rice, i believe?

[Manx Guy]

It seems they DO use rice...
See the link below:

viewtopic.php?f=3&p=331826

Hope this helps...



Guy

[Bigveees]

It's Lager, why bother?

[Brauntonbeer]

because IMHO a well made lager is as good as any ale - and i really love ale

[mysterio]

These threads always follow the same pattern

To the OP, this may be a bit of a cop out but you'll need to practice your lager brewing technique before you get close, it is quite a delicate art and brewing a light flavoured lager like Cobra takes a bit of practice. If you can tell us a bit about your level of experience, what kind of brewer you are (all grain, extract etc), then we will be able to help you further.

As a starting point I would think about 80% lager malt, 20% flaked rice, bittering with hallertau to 15 IBU then a good handful at the end of the boil, use S-23 yeast, ferment at the recommended pitching rate and temperature as per the manufacturers website, then filter or store cold for a while. This is very generic advice that assumes you don't want to go into too much depth, and will probably get you somewhere in the region of Cobra, it is not 'how to brew the best lager possible' advice.

[Barley Water]

Or if you really want to have a little fun and expand your tool kit so to speak, try using whole rice and do a ceral mash. I am not a big fan of rice in beer but I do like corn so I sometimes do a ceral mash on grits. My last forlay into that area was a Vienna Lager which I "cut" with 20% corn grits (a Mexicanized Vienna if you will). The beer came out really nice although of course it was pretty light, the ultimate "chick beer". Sometimes beers like that are really good in really hot weather which of course we have here in spades. Corn will give beer a slightly sweet, grainly flavor however rice should really dry the beer out. I don't know off the top of my head what needs to be done to gelantaize rice but a quick google should get the job done for you. Mysterio is correct though, if you aren't really experienced with your technique, beers like that are very hard to do well since there is absolutely nothing to hide flaws behind. Every process screwup ends up in the glass as they say.