At our new year party I had bushys bitter (local brewery), coopers bitter (home brew) through the handpumps and both got supped. I had arkells lager(home brew) in the corny keg, ok this brew but as it tasted like bitter so the carling brigade wouldn't drink it. I put 30 cans of carlsberg lager in a corny kegs and they supped it. So can anyone recommend a bland lager kit like carling, skol etc so to please the lads with no tastebuds.
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recommend a bland lager
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Re: recommend a bland lager
bettyswallocks wrote:At our new year party I had bushys bitter (local brewery), coopers bitter (home brew) through the handpumps and both got supped. I had arkells lager(home brew) in the corny keg, ok this brew but as it tasted like bitter so the carling brigade wouldn't drink it. I put 30 cans of carlsberg lager in a corny kegs and they supped it.


One of the problems of homebrewing lager is temperature. If you ferment at normal ale temperatures you'll get ale like flavours - even with most lager yeasts. There is a liquid yeast that is supposed to give lager like flavours at higher temps - Wyeast 2112 or White Labs WLP-810. Even this won't be the same as a proper European lager yeast fermented at the right temperature.
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