Coxy Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Yes, it's a XXXX Gold clone-ish attempt. I was after a "lawnmower lager" style mid-strength easy drinking summer beer. I just brewed it up on the weekend after bottling my english bitter (which tasted divine straight out of the FV). Here's the recipe: 1 can Coopers Draught 1kg Lager Liquid Malt (LHBS) 300g LDME 15g Cluster hops (steeped 15mins) Harvested/rinsed Saflager-23 yeast from a Euro Lager. Dry hopping with 30g Cluster hops. OG: 1.042 Pitched at 16deg (a bit cool). Took 36 hours before it got a bit of a krausen, but it was firing up as I left home yesterday (in Canberra for 3 days). Dropped the temp down to 13 degrees then. It's not a recipe I saw anywhere, but it's simple enough so thought I'd give it a crack and see how it turned out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 It will be a fair bit stronger than XXXX Gold, wouldn't it? What ABV% are you expecting? Also, 16 degrees is fine to pitch at if you have pitched sufficient healthy yeast. It should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ash Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Not quite sure Coxy reads more like nice heavy than a "lawnmower lager"to my novice ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Yeah I reckon you'll get a higher ABV from that recipe given Gold is only 3.5%. It may well taste similar though which is probably more to the point of making it...[lol] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxy Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 Yeah, aiming for around 4%, not the 3.5% of actual gold. It's the flavour I'm after. I used the kit spreadsheet with my recipe and it calculated ABV at about 4% (23L batch). Not worried about the pitching temp. Lower than I usually pitch at but pitched started healthy yeast so figured worst case it'd take a bit longer to get going. And it did, by a matter of 12 hours over previous lagers/pilsners. So no biggy. I wanted something with a BIT more flavour than XXXX Gold which I think I'll get, but we'll see ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wal Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Hey Coxy, I know it's only been about a month since you made this one but I'm keen on knowing how it is progressing and how it tastes?? Just tell me to rack off and come back later if I'm being too impatient. [innocent] Wal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxy Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 Ha! Rack off, you're too impatient! :P No, seriously, I only bottled it last weekend. Samples tasted good though. FG was around 1.012 so should be about 4.3% I guess after bottle conditioning, so more like XXXX heavy than gold. I fermented for 3 weeks, cold crashed for 1 week and then bottled. Will crack one next weekend just to give it a premature taste ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wal Posted September 17, 2012 Share Posted September 17, 2012 Ha! Rack off' date=' you're too impatient! :P[/quote'] [biggrin] [biggrin] I did ask for that didn't I??? [cool] I'll just bide my time and wait for the results then!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coxy Posted October 1, 2012 Author Share Posted October 1, 2012 Ha! Rack off' date=' you're too impatient! :P[/quote'] [biggrin] [biggrin] I did ask for that didn't I??? [cool] I'll just bide my time and wait for the results then!!! Cracked my first bottle yesterday. It's delicious! [love] Good level of bitterness, great clarity and a nice clean flavour. Bit like a typical Australian lager but IMO better flavour than the stock standard commercial stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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