Hello,
I have recently joined this forum. Trying not to violate any rules or etc but forgive me If I do so.
I'm planning to brew a 40 pint lager from Munton's Continental Lager kit. Instead of using the yeast that comes with the kit I bought Fermentis w34/70 yeast. Plus I bought 1.5 kg of dry malt extract to brew 100% malt beer. I made some research over the internet but I'm confused so thought about writing here what I have in my mind. So If I'm wrong about any process please correct me. By the way, I searched threads here as well and read comments but I hope nobody gets offended If I ask similar questions again here in my thread.
So, the fermentation will take place at a temperature around 13-14 degrees Celsius. So I guess this is good for lager beer. I want to make starter yeast. I read this thread:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=76101&highlight=lager
So thinking of making yeast starter a few hours before brewing with 1lt of water and 100 gr. of DME. I'll cover it with aluminium foil and will follow instructions in the link.
Then for brewing I'll follow kit instructions. Boil 3,5 liters of water, add beer kit to the water(I'll boil the can as well to make the kit more liquid). Then instead of sugar I'll use 1kg. of DME for fermenting. But to add DME, shall I boil it in a few liters of water to sanitize it? If so, how many liters of water is fine? Finally will add new opened bottled cool water(do I need to sanitize that water as well?) and cool the wort to ~24 degrees Celsius. After all these steps I'll add the starter yeast to the wort.
When everything is done I'm planning to wait at least 3 weeks for fermentation to take place. During fermentation do I need to add additional sugar or yeast? Or shall I just wait for fermentation to finish and then bottle my beer?
I appreciate any comments about my plan of actions. This will be my first brew so I'm quiet excited about it
Best wishes to all,
:rockin:
I have recently joined this forum. Trying not to violate any rules or etc but forgive me If I do so.
I'm planning to brew a 40 pint lager from Munton's Continental Lager kit. Instead of using the yeast that comes with the kit I bought Fermentis w34/70 yeast. Plus I bought 1.5 kg of dry malt extract to brew 100% malt beer. I made some research over the internet but I'm confused so thought about writing here what I have in my mind. So If I'm wrong about any process please correct me. By the way, I searched threads here as well and read comments but I hope nobody gets offended If I ask similar questions again here in my thread.
So, the fermentation will take place at a temperature around 13-14 degrees Celsius. So I guess this is good for lager beer. I want to make starter yeast. I read this thread:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=76101&highlight=lager
So thinking of making yeast starter a few hours before brewing with 1lt of water and 100 gr. of DME. I'll cover it with aluminium foil and will follow instructions in the link.
Then for brewing I'll follow kit instructions. Boil 3,5 liters of water, add beer kit to the water(I'll boil the can as well to make the kit more liquid). Then instead of sugar I'll use 1kg. of DME for fermenting. But to add DME, shall I boil it in a few liters of water to sanitize it? If so, how many liters of water is fine? Finally will add new opened bottled cool water(do I need to sanitize that water as well?) and cool the wort to ~24 degrees Celsius. After all these steps I'll add the starter yeast to the wort.
When everything is done I'm planning to wait at least 3 weeks for fermentation to take place. During fermentation do I need to add additional sugar or yeast? Or shall I just wait for fermentation to finish and then bottle my beer?
I appreciate any comments about my plan of actions. This will be my first brew so I'm quiet excited about it
Best wishes to all,
:rockin: