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Enhancing a Geordie Lager
Hi all
Gonna try a concoction this coming Saturday and hopefully run this pass a few of the experienced heads. Gonna make up a Geordie lager kit, add a hop tea (40gm First Gold hops infused in a litre boiling water for an hour), add Wyeast British ale 1098 instead of the supplied yeast and dry hop with 40-60 gm Bramling Cross.
In the mood for experimenting and the Geordie Lager, although a nice budget option is a kit I feel can be experimented with.
Looking forward to any opinions, pointers or advice.
Cheers 
Planning - Single Hop Pale Ale.
Fermenting - Coopers Canadian Blonde
Conditioning - Coopers Pilsner, Coopers English Bitter
Drinking - None
Fermenting - Coopers Canadian Blonde
Conditioning - Coopers Pilsner, Coopers English Bitter
Drinking - None
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Posted 12 months ago by Member
Sounds pretty cool for a tarted up kit.
Only thing I would change is, switch the steeped & dry hops around maybe, as first gold is noted for its aroma and dry hopping.
Posted 11 months ago by Moderator
Sounds good, do you have any speciality grain to steep?. Try to keep the fermentation on the cooler side of the scale (18-20°C) for a nice crisp flavour.
Fermenting: Marynka pseudo-lager
Maturing/Conditioning:
Drinking: Wheat beer, ESB, Vienna lager & shop bought stuff
Posted 11 months ago by Member
Cheers Monk will give that a go instead. Done a couple of Lagers before Hamish and I know what you mean about a cooler temperature. No specialty grains to steep, thinking of trying that in a future brew. What grains would you recommend??
Fermenting - Coopers Canadian Blonde
Conditioning - Coopers Pilsner, Coopers English Bitter
Drinking - None
Posted 11 months ago by Moderator
It would depend upon what you wanted to do with it, carapils would aid head retention but you could change the character of the beer completely if you wanted to. In my Wheeler book he uses a lager kit as the basis for a Porter by steeping black malt and roasted barley.
You can steep roasted barley, caramel malts and roasted malts like chocolate malt.
Fermenting: Marynka pseudo-lager
Maturing/Conditioning:
Drinking: Wheat beer, ESB, Vienna lager & shop bought stuff
Posted 11 months ago by Member
Only just seen this thread and I think you are doing something that needs to be done to this kit as otherwise, in my experience it is a little lacking in body.
Fermenting: Elderberry wine & Vimto wine.
Conditioning: - Ginger Beer, Magnuum apple cider, Coopers Lager.
Drinking: - Coopers Lager,Coopers Draught Elderflower bubbly, Nettle wine,Wherry,
Posted 11 months ago by Member
Brew bottled last night, couple of weeks and ill know if its been a success. Dry hopped the First Gold when I added the yeast, have learned since that I should have waited till the fermentation had calmed down (Dohh!!). Hopefully this wont affect the beer too much. Asked the eldest to name the beer and he came up with Bramalingadingdong
Fermenting - Coopers Canadian Blonde
Conditioning - Coopers Pilsner, Coopers English Bitter
Drinking - None
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