Planning
I broke my foot last weekend (don’t ask), and figured that I’m going to be drinking a hell of alot more beer than usual. Scary thought. The last lager no8. will be coming out of the fermenter in a couple of days so thought it best to start planning now. I like a dry beer like TED or Hahn Super Dry, so have bought a Wal’s Dry Lager kit from the Country Brewer (www.countrybrewer.com.au) This kit comes along with hop pellets in the mix (not shitty extracts) and a true lager yeast, which I think is a bargain for about $17. Based on what is currently hanging around the brew shed (seeing as I can’t bloody drive for 6 weeks!!!) I will follow this recipe:
- Wal’s Dry Lager kit
- 500g Coopers Enhancer No.1
- 500g LDME
- Supplied dry enzyme
- Supplied lager yeast
We’ll see how it goes…..
3 August 2008 – Followed the above recipe by boiling the LDME and Coopers Enhancer for about 5 minutes before adding the can contents for another few minutes. The big difference with this kit is the real hop pellets inside the can and floating around in the boil, so didn’t bother with adding any extra.
Added to fermenter at about 23 degrees, adding the included enzyme just before the dry yeast
24 August 2008 – Left this one for 3 weeks as it was a slow one. Bottled at an FG of about 1.008 in PET bottles using carb drops
7 September 2008 – It was fathers day today and one of those special days when you can start drinking at whatever time you want and nobody can give you sh!t about it 
This was a great opportunity to crack open the new dry lager and see how it was going (about 12pm by the way). WOW! I have to say after only 2 weeks this was a fantastic brew. I’m sure the home brew purists would think it tastes like megaswill, but this was so close to a Hahn Super Dry after only 2 weeks. I drank 8 of these during the afternoon and the alcohol content of about 5% really shone through 
This one ain’t gonna last long!
