Brew No.8 – Traditional Australian Lager

RATING: 3/5 Stars

I wanted to brew another lager and thought this time we would go with a full extract brew. A little more time involved but also more flexibility in the ingredients. I have mentioned before my preference for POR hops and I got to use plenty in this recipe

• 1.5kg can of light malt extract
• 1.5kg LDME
• 250g Dextrose
• 22g POR hops (in boil)
• 14g POR just before flameout
• Saflager s23 yeast

13 July 2008 – I don’t have a very big brewpot so boiled around 3L of water with 500g liquid extract and the boiling hops for 30 minutes. added all the other fermentables and hops for another 5 minutes then strained into the fermenter. Added cold filtered water (haven’t done this before) up to 23 Litres dropped in the dry yeast at approx 20 degrees and it kicked off well. OG of approx 1.045

17 July 2008 – ferment is still going really well. As with the last lager there is a rather unpleasant fart smell coming from the garage due to the production of hydrogen sulphide but thats fairly normal for a lager Temp has been fairly constant at between 13 – 16 degrees

27 July 2008 – Bottled today at a FG of 1.012, as usual in the PET bottles and Coopers carb drops. Smells fantastic and can’t wait to taste in a few weeks.

1 September 2008 - This beer has been drinking pretty well now for a few weeks. The biggest issue I have is it has not cleared, so I am looking into ways to improve this in future brews. Anyways, we had the kids birthday party this weekend and my mates proceeded to drink about 24 schooners of this one and the feedback was pretty good!