Thread: Finally a topic I know something about

Send us down a couple, I'll try them, then ask the relevant questions

Good on ya Frank.

Can you make or tell me how to make anything as good as Tooheys Old?

If I use distillers yeast in a beer brew how much sugar do I need to add to get a beer with 17% alcohol

Ok here is one ....

I am just about to start a Boag's Premium with the following kit:

Start with beerkit: Black Rock Lager
Use Brewblend: #60
Malt Extract: 500g light
Yeast: Saflager
Other Stuff: 10g Saaz hop pellets. Simmer in a cup of water for 2 min then stand for 10 min before straining into beer mixture.

The beer kit conversion #60 German Larger states that you should use SAFlager yeast as per above. When speaking with my local home brew guy who I trust, he said just use the regular yeast that came with the black rock lager as the difference is very light. No problem there but the question is:
The #60 kit recommends that the SAFlarger yeast be used at a fermation temp of 10-15c (Do not use heater). If I was to substitute the yeast from the Black Rock kit would I need to brew at regular temperature to get the yeast going? and if so will it impact on the quality of the final Boag's Premium?

Ohh one more thing. I have an unopened light dried malt that has gone all hard. Can I crush it up again and use it?

I just bottled a beez knees a couple of weeks ago.

One can of Mutons wheat beer'
One brew booster,
200 grams of honey.

brew before it was a carlsberg mock up

Can of Munich Lager,
1 KG of brew booster,
500 grams of light malt,
12 grams of Singha steep hops.

Tastes pretty good and reckon that i may do it again.

Originally Posted by echnidna

If I use distillers yeast in a beer brew how much sugar do I need to add to get a beer with 17% alcohol

Give up & buy a bottle of port.

Originally Posted by Sir Stinkalot

Ok here is one ....

I am just about to start a Boag's Premium with the following kit:...

Give us a yell if you need somebody to sample it for you.

Stinky,

My preference would be for the SAFLager yeast. IMHO this is a good, clean yeast with a strong ferment in the 10-12C range.

The yeast that came with the Black Rock Lager kit is *likley* to be an Ale yeast. If it's a high temp Lager yeast (ala steam beer) or a combination (ala Koelsch) then the flavour profile will not come closer to Boags to do introduction of higher order alcohols in the high temp ferment.

So my advice would be go with the SafLager.

Also if you aren't already - use a yeast starter rather than adding dry yeast to the wort. The increased rate of fermentation will create a cleaner brew with less change of infection in the critical initial 24-28hrs

Prost!

Glenn

Originally Posted by BrissyBrew

Any brewing questions dont be afraid to post

Any?

OK then, what smart-asre came up with the idea of calling the science of brewing zymurgy? And why?

why do carb drops taste so good???lol

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Good on ya Frank.

Can you make or tell me how to make anything as good as Tooheys Old?

Hi Cliff are you brewing witha kit or all grain?

Originally Posted by echnidna

If I use distillers yeast in a beer brew how much sugar do I need to add to get a beer with 17% alcohol

Do you want to brew beer, or distrill the final product, because a 17% high gravity beer will take experience and 6 months or more to age. If you use distillers yeast it will take horrible. Your better off with a high gravity trappist yeast. You will of course need to make a starter as well.

Originally Posted by Sir Stinkalot

Ok here is one ....

I am just about to start a Boag's Premium with the following kit:

Start with beerkit: Black Rock Lager
Use Brewblend: #60
Malt Extract: 500g light
Yeast: Saflager
Other Stuff: 10g Saaz hop pellets. Simmer in a cup of water for 2 min then stand for 10 min before straining into beer mixture.

The beer kit conversion #60 German Larger states that you should use SAFlager yeast as per above. When speaking with my local home brew guy who I trust, he said just use the regular yeast that came with the black rock lager as the difference is very light. No problem there but the question is:
The #60 kit recommends that the SAFlarger yeast be used at a fermation temp of 10-15c (Do not use heater). If I was to substitute the yeast from the Black Rock kit would I need to brew at regular temperature to get the yeast going? and if so will it impact on the quality of the final Boag's Premium?

Ohh one more thing. I have an unopened light dried malt that has gone all hard. Can I crush it up again and use it?

First of all if you want a true lager finish your better off using a liquid yeast. However true german larger yeast is comming soon as a dry alternative but currently not avaialbe in Australia. However fermentation at lower temperatures is necessary, even for dried but that depends on the strain. I am not sure what black rock use in there kits, it is most likely repackaged danstar Saflarger but I am unsure on this issue. The DME is ok just boil it up and it should be fine. Yeast profile is important for lager's crisp clean flavour profile. Temperature control for fermentation is also as important as the stain of yeast you use.

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Any?

OK then, what smart-asre came up with the idea of calling the science of brewing zymurgy? And why?

actually Zymurgy or zymology is the study of the fermentation process, so technically it includes process outside what would normally be referred as brewing, eg ethonol production and the like.

Of course the american magazine call zymurgy about brewing beer has changed the contemporary use the work somewhat to referr to brewing science.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Good on ya Frank.

Can you make or tell me how to make anything as good as Tooheys Old?

Originally Posted by BrissyBrew

Hi Cliff are you brewing witha kit or all grain?

Nothing at all yet, I still buy readyrolled at the Little Bottler 'cos I haven't found anything better.