Next Brew - Coopers Bavarian Pilsner
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Beatnik69
Next Brew - Coopers Bavarian Pilsner
I was thinking of having a blatter at one of these this weekend. Has anyone done one before and if so what did you think? I was thinking of using 750g light spraymalt and 250g brewing sugar. Does that sound about right?
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Hoppkins
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Dave d
Re: Next Brew - Coopers Bavarian Pilsner
Before you get the Coopers Bavarian have a read of this http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/ourhomebrews.htmlBeatnik69 wrote:I was thinking of having a blatter at one of these this weekend. Has anyone done one before and if so what did you think? I was thinking of using 750g light spraymalt and 250g brewing sugar. Does that sound about right?
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Beatnik69
Slight change of plan. I called into the local HBS on the way home tonight to get the pilsner and it was gone. Apparently it had been delivered in error a while back and had sat on the shelf. Now that I go looking for it, it's been snaffled. 
Anyway, I found a Coopers Australian lager which is what I had been looking for originally so Hopefully it'll get started over the weekend. I think it too has a lager yeast in the kit but I've bought a spare sachet of lager yeast just in case. 
Anyway, I found a Coopers Australian lager which is what I had been looking for originally so Hopefully it'll get started over the weekend. I think it too has a lager yeast in the kit but I've bought a spare sachet of lager yeast just in case. -
Beatnik69
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Beatnik69
Phew!! Well that's it in the FV. I'm just wait for it to cool down a smidgeon more before taking an OG reading and pitching the yeast. I made a bit of a boo boo when I discovered I actually only had 500g of light spray malt so I've had to go for a 50/50 with brewing sugar. I'm surprised at how dark it is for lager though. 
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delboy
With it being a lager hopefully you'll be ok with the 500g of malt and 500g of sugar, from memory DaaB recommends 750g malt, 250g sugar for such kits so you aren't that far outBeatnik69 wrote:Phew!! Well that's it in the FV. I'm just wait for it to cool down a smidgeon more before taking an OG reading and pitching the yeast. I made a bit of a boo boo when I discovered I actually only had 500g of light spray malt so I've had to go for a 50/50 with brewing sugar. I'm surprised at how dark it is for lager though.
I think as far as the colour goes its very difficult for the kit producers to produce very light coloured worts. The wort tends to darken during the whole concentration stage.
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Beatnik69
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delboy
Are you sure you mixed it throughly beatnik?Beatnik69 wrote:I was wanting to go for the 75/25 mix but didn't notice that the spraymalt was only 500g until I had the wort in the fv and the bag ripped open!
OG 1034 @ 22°C. A little lower than I'd hoped for.
I suppose you could kill two birds with the one stone and get some more spraymalt from natures way, dissolve 500g, boil, cool and put it into the fermenter, you'll raise the gravity and swing the malt sugar ratio back to malt a bit more.
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Beatnik69
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Beatnik69
I'll give that a shot then. Luckily I pitched two sachets of yeast. I take it I would be better adding the boiling water to the spraymalt so that I get just enough to dissolve it so that it's not to dilute when going in to the fermenter (as that would then be completely pointless).?
I think what happened was that I used bottled water from T*sco and obviously the bottles must contain slightly more than 2 litres each so I've made it too dilute.
I think what happened was that I used bottled water from T*sco and obviously the bottles must contain slightly more than 2 litres each so I've made it too dilute.
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Beatnik69
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Beatnik69
Bottled up last night. Next lesson learned - Buy a bottling stick. It smells like beer (well like warm stale beer after it's been spilt on a pub carpet) but when I licked some off my fingers after a slight spillage it tasted a bit vinegary but I think I read somewhere that lagers can taste like this when freshly brewed. Am I right about this?
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Hoppkins