Brewing Asahi Clone

[Mishkin]

At my LHBS they sell prepackaged recipe kits of commercial beers. I picked up an Asahi pack which contains 1.7kg can of Beermakers lager, 1kg of corn syrup and 500g of rice syrup. The guy from the shop said that he's made it twice and his FG was about 0.997. I didn't think that's possible. Does that mean the beer is less dense than water. Maybe his hydrometer is off? I'm just wondering if I should wait until it reaches the same FG as the home brew guy cos it doesn't seem right.

 

[Walker]

yep, that means his beer is thinner than water. I've heard that this is possible to do from someone on this board... maybe david_42?

 

[mysterio]

Yeah, your corn syrup and rice syrup will almost completely turn into alcohol (DME will only partially convert and leave body).

Remember Asahi is an ultra-dry beer made for the Asian climate!

 

[Catfish]

Please, Super-Dry.
It is the only native Japanese beer style so far, I wonder why the largest Japanese brewery has such a low export percentage....


Oh and alcohol is thinner than water. Blistering headaches from drinking the stuff.

 

[mysterio]

Super-dry, sorry

I would argue that they don't really know how to market themselves, and the product really isn't good enough to 'sell itself' IMHO.

 

[Mikey]

Brewing a beer like Super Dry requires specific methods, ingredients and equipment that are far beyond the capabilites of any homebrewer. The same holds true of almost any ultra pale lager. Substituting a true corn mash with corn sugar is a bit of a joke.

Any 'kit' with these contents is almost garanteed to miss the mark.

 

[Mishkin]

Yeah I figured that.

 

[Mikey]

It's sort of like trying to make Coca-cola at home from a mail order kit, and being able to amaze your friends that it's so much like the real thing that everyone can pick it out from a blind taste test when compared to Pepsi or RC.

Not going to happen.

 

[Mishkin]

Yeah it's not a clone exactly. I kinda worded it wrong. It's just a recipe to make a beer in that sort of style. I don't expect it to taste exactly like Asahi.
My question was about the FG, not about how it will taste.

 

[Mikey]

Soory about being off topic. I've never seen a beer go below 1.00 FG, even with lots (35%) of rice or corn. I know some of the low carb beers(?) in the US are below 1.00 but they're not really beer.

I'd make it the same way as any other kit and see what happens.