Lion Brown Lager Malt Extract Kit Review
For fellow Kiwi's Lion Nathan is a classic New Zealand Brewing company. It's one of the two major players and famous for its Steinlager brew and Double Brown.
Or 'Dobros' as the kids call it.
Anyways, I spied at The Brewhouse that they had a Lion Draft Malt kit - I'm pretty sure I haven't tried this kit before, so I thought I'd give it a whirl.
Into a sanitized drum she went with some beer enhancer. A fair bit of experience has shown that, yes you can make a beer with a kit like this, you will need an enhancer to increase the body and drinkability of your beer!
I do like to get every drop out!
Added a very small about of fuggle hops - just some I had hiding in the fridge and then set the drum up under some sheets in the shed. The Draught kit itself already has some Green Bullet and Pacific Gem hops in the malt.
I left this brew alone for well over two weeks.
On a lazy Sunday morning, I bottled the whole 20 odd litres. It smelled OK in a stock standard sense and tasted like a beer should.
Review Verdict:
I waited a week and had my first try.
I had made a standard beer. It was slightly dry and obviously could do with more carbonation.
A couple of weeks later, I chilled a few in the fridge overnight and opened one after a very nice lasagne.
It went done well.
As you may have suspected, the Lion Brown beer was a malty beer that came out nice and golden. It's nothing fancy but it's a half-decent beer for a kit at last than $20 bucks.
It's probably actually an ideal kit for when you want to boil a batch and add some speciality grains - where you want those grains to dictate the flavour outcome rather than the malt kit itself.
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