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Ways to Home Brew Lager From Kits
As a long-time homebrewer, I am usually encouraging people to attempt their hands at producing their very own beer. This can be a rewarding pass time, a lot of fun and save lots of cash, you will probably have questions which need answering. Sometimes, it can even be fun, but it's a lot of work for the reward. A couple of ideas about the question. Home Brew Lager Kits
First, you specifically note that you would like to brew "lager" in your question. If it's lager you want, I'm not so sure that this is going to be a cost-effective hobby for you to pursue. Brewing lager at home can be expensive to set up.....
Lager requires refrigeration through the fementing stage, you also need control of the temerature. Taht means you have to have a ref, deep freeze with a temp control. Not hard to find an old fridge though, the controls may cost you around $70 approx. Thus, ask yourself if it is worth it or you could simply go fore the starter lager making kits...
Current tech around these days makes it not so hard to create beverages to suit your individual taste. There are a wide variety of home brew lager recipes that you can use to make different kinds of alcoholic spirits like mead, ale, lager, wine and more. If your not so familiar to home brewing then start with a small kit say 40 pint lager kit mini brew system. A microbrewery is a term for a small venture like one might set up in their home.
Looking at set up costs, it isn't easy to produce good lagers with malt extracts, I'm simplifying here, but there are really two ways to brew beer at home.
A. With malt extract. 2. With all-grain. Malt extract is a lot easier, but a little more costly. Basically you pay someone to do your mash for you - mash = converting malts into sugars.
The strategy by way of producing dry and or fluid extracts needs a good bit of managing, purchasing it will take the worry out. Sometimes, your beers will be a bit darker containing malt bill altering your results. It is close to impossible to brew American lagers (Bud, Miller, Coors, or all of their light derivations) using extract. All grain, on the other hand, will get you where you need to go, but has a much more costly up-front investment. You create a Mash Tun which needs seperation thus, your getting in to the technical aspects of brewing. Hoem Brew Lager is not out of the ball park just not so simple. If it's a Miller Light you're looking for, I might suggest purchasing it at the shop. After all of the investments, you most likely would not end up generating your money back again for a while.
