if i bought the briess light malt extract. 1kg brewing sugar. 500g cellar supplies super spray malt light. what dried yeast would you suggest. would this be a decent pilner type drink. with all the ingriedients would avb be 5%. thank you
You can use a Briess malt extract as the base, then add sugar and spray dried malt to it, it is often best to take a starting gravity reading and then a final reading just so you can work out the alcohol content, that sounds as though it may be around the 5% mark. Many of the extracts are not hopped, so if using an unhopped extract then you are best to infuse flavour using some hops - the easiest way is often with a hop teabag such as these:
The great thing is you can use hops of your preference to get it how you prefer, these are often used in beer and lager refill ingredients to change brews to people's personal preference. The Saaz and Hallertau are often used for lagers. You are best to boil the extract with some water and some hop pellets to get the bitter and flavour, otherwise the finished brew may lack flavour.
There is a recipe pack that does a similar kind of idea to this, but it also includes grain so is more involved - you do need a way to boil the grain though so often a mashing set up such as an EB1D is used, more details are here:
If starting with a Briess extract though it is often best to find a guide or recipe so that your finished lager has good flavours to it, without any kind of boiling it may lack hop flavours
what i mean though is the saaz hops come in 100g and the ones you sent me a link to the hop tbags are only 20g. seems a big difference in 40 pints. or do i have to buy a few of the 20g hop tbags. cheers
It may work out best to buy the pellets and then use them as needed, you can also put them in muslin or bags to contain the bits if needed, and stop it clogging up your syphon:
It is probably best to find a recipe and use a tried and tested amount, if not though it can be trial and error to get the strength of hop flavour you want. See what you think to this option below, it does require some boiling but with smaller pans and uses the raw ingredients as a base:
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http://www.home-brew-online.com/search/home-brew-online-m9/hops-t257/hop-tea-bag
This is a good yeast that may be worth considering:
http://www.home-brew-online.com/ingredients-c45/fermentis-safbrew-w-34-70-p1396
Let us know how you get on with it....
There is a recipe pack that does a similar kind of idea to this, but it also includes grain so is more involved - you do need a way to boil the grain though so often a mashing set up such as an EB1D is used, more details are here:
http://www.home-brew-online.com/beer-kits-c1/mini-mash-kit-helles-of-a-german-lager-p2424
If starting with a Briess extract though it is often best to find a guide or recipe so that your finished lager has good flavours to it, without any kind of boiling it may lack hop flavours
http://www.home-brew-online.com/search/home-brew-online-m9/filtering-straining-t243/straining-bag#b1
http://www.home-brew-online.com/beer-kits-c1/home-brew-online-recipe-packs-victory-pilsner-p1688