Seeing as I'm not having so much luck with the Woodfordes Wherry I decide to give another Coopers extract a go. This one is Coopers Pilsener, one of the Thomas Coopers Brewmaster Selection range. I chose this mainly because it uses a real bottom-fermenting lager yeast which doesn't need such a high temperature in the fermenter. This means I can brew it in the garage without having to use the brewbelt.
I shall call this brew "Juborg" in remembrance of the thousands of bottles of Tuborg Gold we drank growing up in Newquay back in the eighties. Everyone used to call it "Steam" which was a bit confusing really as around that time Newquay Steam Lager was released and quite popular I seem to remember. Still, the real "steam" to a local back then was always the little brown bottle of Tuborg Gold.
Here's the brewing notes:
04/09/2008 20:30 Sanitized equipment
04/09/2008 21:45 - OG: 1.034
Air temp 16/17 degrees so no brew belt as this is a true lager yeast.
05/09/2008 21:00ish SG: 1.030
06/09/2008 20:00ish SG: 1.027 - No bubbling still so I screwed the top on a little tighter and it immediately started bubbling every 10 secs!
07/09/2008 20:00ish SG: 1.022
08/09/2008 SG: 1.019
09/09/2008 21:00 SG: 1.015
10/09/2008 21:00 SG: 1.012
11/09/2008 21:00 SG: 1.011
12/09/2008 20:30 SG: 1.009
14/09/2008 SG: 1.008
15/09/2008 - Bottling Day! SG: 1.008 - added 1 teaspoon of dextrose to each bottle.
I love the Coopers kits. They seem to ferment really well and the Coopers fermenter with tap means that I can take a daily SG reading with opening it up and risking infection. Beauty! (as the Aussies might say.)
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