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Help me im new to brewing
ok i started with the munsons begginners range and im starting my second batch but this time i want to double ferment do i add anything once i transfer like yeast or hops and what hops do i use for like a bud, miller, warstiener, red stripe and grolsh i want a smooth flavor with great taste high alchol content and a campayne feeling any help i would love it thank you:)
Are you asking for advice on which type of kit to buy? Most of those styles are light american lagers and believe it or not very difficult to brew to their equal. The easiest and probably the best kit to look at I would suggest is to be a kolsch. You can use an ale yeast at the lower end of the temperature range for fermentation and get a beer that tastes very similar to what you asked.
Now when you are talking about a second fermentation are you talking about putting your beer into a secondary fermenter? the name of this vessel is actually decieving. There is no fermentation going on in this phase- it is for clarifying (at least for ales, lagers do a very small fermentation phase in secondary.) So if brewing an ale, make sure fermentation is 100% complete, then sanitarily transfer to a secondary fermenter and let that condition for as long as you have patience for. The longer and cooler, the clearer your finished beer will turn out.
Or you can dive into lagers, but just research the process and be comfortable before you even buy the kit. There is additional eqipt and monitoring involved- IMHO well worth it. Most beginning homebrewers knock out a few ales first to get the process down smoothly.
Another option would be a Blonde Ale, and use a dry yeast like DCL Safale 05, throw a pound of honey into the boil at 30min or so to pop the alcohol up a percent or so. remember the higher the %ABV, the harsher the brew will taste without some aging.
And, most first phase brewers are in a hurry to brew & drink.
Oh, yeah, welcome to the board, you can and will learn a lot here.
Easier beer in my opinion for a beginner is a irish red ale or brown ale. They're more forgiving. As thirsty said, the light beers you mentioned in wanting to brew something similar would be difficult to do. One reason is those beers have rice solids and other adjuncts added that do nothing for flavor. Another reason is they are all lagers and you would need some temperature control to keep beer at lager temps or you'll get off flavors in the beer. A simple irish red ale gives you a very nice malty flavor that can help hide some beginner mistakes and you'll be suprised how much better you'll like the flavor compared to those mass produced fizzy yellow water beers.
I brewed a blond ale for a lake trip for family to drink and it is similar to those beers but I don't care for it at all. I like the malty beers, and dark beers. but that's just me. Open your horizons to what you want to make for your first beer. Regardless of what you make, it won't be anything like the ones you want to mimic and you'll be glad they aren't.
You can also type in "Lawnmower beer" in the search box to the left and you'll get recipes for easy drinking beers that people on here made.
DC
i basiclly started with a pilsner and added a 50/50 blend i had regular white sugar with a dark brown spraymalt sugar and it tasted preety good and as goes for lagering cant i make it then put it in an empty fridge or ? thank you so much and ill check them out
As far as the lagering goes, you are exactly right, throw it in an empty fridge once fully fermented, and you are fine. However to ferment lagers you need to maintain a temperature for most yeasts between 50-56 deg, no more. This is difficult for many peoples situation to maintain this consistantly for 3-4 weeks which is how long a lager usually takes to finish fermenting.
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