My Australian Pale Ale – Two Thumbs Up!
1418 days ago
Well guys, I finally had a chance to share my recently bottled beer with my friends. It was the Australian Pale Ale and it has been in the bottle for 2 weeks already. And the conclusion was that it was great and a lot of them are asking me how I did it! Ha, I never expected such a good response and from those very experienced drinkers, it was very encouraging. Some of them seemed very knowledgeable on beers and drank like 1.5 litre of beers per session. I am quite impressed but anyway, most of the effort goes to the manufacturer of the beer kit – Coopers. I didn’t really brew the beer, I took a beer concentrate (which includes main portion of the brew – the malt, hops and other flavours) and then added water and additional hops and malt (I used Cooper’s Beer Enhancer 2 which consists of Malt, Dextrose and Malto-dextrin). Didn’t have much a recipe to follow.
I will surely be making more of Cooper’s Australian Pale Ale in the future. With such a response from my friends, it’s going to the talk of any party I hope. I think they will start to ditch Tiger beer, and go into real beer, like a home brewed beer which most likely will taste much better. One of the home brewers told me that once you drink home brewed beer, you will never go back to commercial ones anymore. Looks like it is true. I am eagerly waiting for my extract beer to be ready. However, I am sure that it will not be as tasty as the Australian Pale Ale (which was from a kit), but I could use this as a base for me to improve on my home brews, like how much hops to add, how much alcohol to provide a kick and what other flavours/aromas and mouthfeel is needed.
But since there is currently a demand for my home brewed beer, I think I will stick to kits for the time being. As I said before in my previous post, I will be going for the Blue Mountain Lager (with Ale Yeast). They are mainly meant for my friends and require very little experimenting and, well, very little headache. As with the Australian Pale Ale kit, just add the additional ingredients to the beer concentrate. My friends seem happy with the kits anyway. Hey, home brewing is all about sharing your home brew with your friends! Maybe once their taste get better, I will then do specialty grains and extract brewing. The Blue Mountain Lager Kit is from Morgan’s and it is supposed to be one of their more popular ones. Hope it will be just as good as the Australian Pale Ale!
