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quick lager ( coopers range)

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  • 11-08-2014 11:34pm
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    poitinstill
    Registered Users Posts: 732 ✭✭✭


    i see hbw have a good push on coopers kits. im looking to get a lager ( TYPE) kit that will be hopped up with hallertauer-hersbrucker.
    i know they have a lot of lager style ive done the standard one. bu want a bit more. also tried the pils ( with a flava pack thingy which ended up like lemon sherbet muck) ......thinking heritage lager or draft or else a retry of the pils.
    pls advise.


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    Carawaystick
    Registered Users Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    You can't make lager beer quickly
    Lager is the German word for store, so you need some weeks to store the beer at a cold temp

    You could make ale that tastes fairly like some lagers, but aren't lager


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    Whisko
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭Whisko


    Carawaystick wrote: »
    You can't make lager beer quickly
    Lager is the German word for store, so you need some weeks to store the beer at a cold temp

    You could make ale that tastes fairly like some lagers, but aren't lager

    This is true though he is specifically asking about the coopers 'lagers'.

    Coopers have two real lager kits that use lager yeast, the European and the pils. These need to be brewed at around 11 degrees c and be lagered to come out a top beer, and the likely reason that your pils came out tasting off is that you brewed it at too high of a temperature and skipped the lagering phase.

    The rest of the coopers 'lagers' use a very clean ale yeast, these are actually blonde ales and not lagers at all and brewing them follows the traditional ale style brewing- no need to lager.

    Go with the heritage.


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