BREWING BETTER BEERS

Here are some simple and easy ways to improve your beer

Making a good beer means using the best ingredients available. Along with your choice of a quality beer kit your choice of yeast is also important. The fermentation process is dependant on yeast characteristics and performance. Healthy fermentations and bright beers with good flavours are the key benefits you get when using DCL dried brewing yeasts.

Safale S-04

This well known English ale strain exhibits fast fermentation with unique sedimentation properties, helping to improve beer clarity. In the recommended temperature range of 18 C to 24 C, this Safale S-04 will attenuate the wort down to 1008 to 1012 within 2 or 3 days. This is the ideal yeast to produce the best Ales!

Saflager S-23

Want to make a genuine Lager or Pilsner beer? Use a genuine Lager yeast! This strain is widely used by Western European commercial breweries and will produce the best of its Lager flavours when fermented at low temperatures 10C to 14C. Yet it will still produce very good beers at room temperature.

Dextrose

Use dextrose not sugar. Sugar leaves a cidery or wine taste in your beer and this takes away the flavour you are trying to create. Dextrose will give you a pure, clean beer taste.

Brewblends

We have put together a number of blends to help you to personalise your brewing.

# 10 Gemdex Booster - 250g maltodextrin and 750g dextrose  $3.95

For better head retention, smoother texture and more body in all beers. A blend of dextrose and powdered corn syrup.

# 15 Brewblend - 250g maltodextrin, 250g malt and 500g dextrose  $5.95

A lightly malted blend to add flavour and body and improve head retention with out changing the basic character of the beer. A blend of dextrose, powdered corn syrup and light malt.

# 20 Brewblend Malt Plus Booster - 250g maltodextrin, 500g malt and 250g dextrose  $6.95

A richer malt blend to make richer fuller flavoured beers. It gives your beer a creamy finish. A blend of dextrose, powdered corn syrup and light malt.

# 25 Stout Booster 1.5kg

A blend of dark malt, maltodextrin, dextrose and hops specially designed to add lots of flavour and body to your stout.  $10.50

# 30 Milk Stout Booster 1.5kg

For rich, creamy, sweet stouts. A blend of dextrose, maltodextrin, dark malt and lactose.  $10.50

BEER KIT CONVERTERS

These  kits are the ideal way to make your beer closer to your favourite commercial style beer. They are simple and easy to use and have been formulated to allow you to brew similar beers to the commercial brands.

# 40 Australian Lager

For the classic Australian lager. Add it to Lager or Munich Lager kits.

#42 Australian bitter

For the classic Australian Bitter with an extra hop bite. Add it to Pilsner or Draught kits

#44 Australian Special Bitter

For a Fosters Special or Toohey’s Blue style. Add to Pilsner Draught or Bitter kits.

#50 New Zealand Lager

For a Steinlager style. Add to Lager or Pilsner kits.

#60 German Lager

For the European Lager styles. Add to Lager or Munich Lager.

#62 Czech Pilsner

For a great malty pilsner. Add to Pilsner , Lager or Munich Lager kits.

#70 English Bitter

For a deep amber English Style coloured ale .Add to Draught, Bitter or ale kits.

#72 Brown Ale

For a roasted barley flavour and light brown colour. Add to Draught or Bitter kits.

#74 Irish Stout

Perfect for lovers of a good Irish Stout. Add to a good Stout or Irish Stout kit.

Malts

We also stock Light and Dark Malt in both liquid and powdered form.  

Hops