BEER dad » Sparkling Beer http://beerdad.com Homebrew and the Art of Parenting. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:33:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Two Brews: Sparkling Beer & Red Lager http://beerdad.com/2009/06/sparkling-beer-and-red-lager http://beerdad.com/2009/06/sparkling-beer-and-red-lager#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:22:25 +0000 admin http://beerdad.com/?p=324 Shortly after brewing my sparkling ale, I read through the recipe for the lager I planned on making next, and suddenly remembered a major difference between lagers and ales:

Lagers take about 3 months to condition while ales only take a week or two.

This time requirement is the main reason everything I have made so far has been an ale, along with the fact that it would require another 3 or 4 cases of bottles.

We bottled the sparkling ale Sunday and I went ahead and brewed the lager last night.  This way I have something to drink while I wait.

The ale, or sparkling beer, as I decided to call it, will be ready around the 27th.  The lager should be ready for bottling this weekend, so I will probably buy bottles from my local homebrew store tomorrow.

In case you are keeping track, the sparkling beer was BEER dad brew #14 and red lager is #15.

]]> http://beerdad.com/2009/06/sparkling-beer-and-red-lager/feed 1