This classic lager is refreshing and light-coloured, with a balanced hop finish. Easy-drinking and sessionable. Can be brewed Low or Mid, from 2.6% to 4.8% ABV. See can for recipe options. For a dry, lower carb beer add a sachet of glucoamylase enzyme with the yeast.
Follow Brick Road and you will soon be brewing fresh beer that tastes better than commercial beer. This can contains the foundations of great beer for you to brew at home, simply and easily. You can also build your own unique recipes brick-by-brick. Brick Road searched the world to find the best maltster to create this exceptional hopped wort.
Only the finest grains are selected and malted. Malts are blended to suit the beer style, then mashed with hop extracts to create hopped wort. The fresh wort is gently reduced to 80 Brix before being canned fresh on-site to retain its original delicious malt flavours.
Specifications (approx.) of 23L made with 1kg dextrose of brewing sugar:
Colour: Pale straw, 5 EBC
Bitterness: Low-medium, 17 IBU
Grist: Lager malt
Wort:OG 1.038, FG 1.008 (approx.)
Yeast: New World Lager Yeast (hybrid - can be fermented at up to 22C)
Additional fermentables required - recipe options:
| Approx. % alcohol by volume (ABV) | 19L | 21L | 23L |
| For a Lager add: 1kg dextrose or brewing sugar or for a fuller-bodied 100% malt beer add 1kg Brick Road Extra Light Dry malt extract |
4.8% | 4.3% | 4.0% |
| For a Mid or Low Alcohol version add: 250g dextrose or brewing sugar or for a fuller-bodied 100% malt beer, add 250g Brick Road Extra Light Dry malt extract |
3.1% | 2.8% | 2.6% |
| For a Lower Carb beer add: A 3g sachet of glucoamylase enzyme (dry enzyme) with the yeast at the start of fermentation. This may reduce the carbohydrate content of the resulting beer* (ABV will increase slightly) |
* This malt extract is NOT lower carb. Recipe suggestions only. The addition of glucoamylase enzyme as an additional ingredient is know to reduce carbohydrate content of beer when use correctly.
Dry hop additions suggestions
Option to finish with up to 30g of your favourite hops for extra flavour.
Alternate yeast options
You can use a hybrid lager yeast like Californian, or lager yeast like 34/70, S-23 or Novalager for fermentation below 22C, or a neutral ale yeast like US-05, Bry-97 for 20C plus.
Size: 1.5kg
Ingredients: Barley malt extract, hop extract, dried yeast.
Made in the UK.
