Novalager brew day. 

It's 6:40am over here in Western Australia and I'm seriously thinking about crackin a tin while watching this..

I just kegged a Doppelbach lager that I used Novalager in and it's the best tasting lager to date. ABV of 7.5%. Hallertau hops. I'm switching to Novalager for all my medium to dark high ABV lagers. I'm sure it'll work just as well for lighter lagers too.

Really keen to see how this goes, had the bloke at the local brew shop say they have some on the way knowing I am game to try new stuff

Helpful. I’m about 3 batches away from commencing a lager campaign.

Glad to see you brewing with the NovaLager yeast. Been looking forward to the arrival of this yeast in the US. Only commercial brewers could get it until recently, and now I see at least one online shop has 11.5 gram sachets! Homebrew Network and Mr Scotchpie both had excellent results. I have a feeling you'll get a good result too. Cheers John!

Early bird gets the worm.🍺

I look forward to the tasting

I am I my 4th brew using the novalager yeast from the 1st packet. It is still working well and the 4th pilsner tastes great

It's -27 here in Ottawa, Canada right now. No problem chilling wort fast, but still need temp control for lager as it would freeze in the garage.

Thinking of using this instead of US05 for my session pale ale - lemondrop lorikeet. my non official brewing name is three beaks, cause I have two birds, a budgie and a greencheek conure and my old folks have a green quaker parrot, So I name by brews after Australian native birds. But stats for my session/ low carb pale is - 19lt batch in my brewzilla 35lt, 2.75kg pale malt, 150g cara gold and changing my recipe to novalager it would attenuate less apparently than US05 so it would finish around 1.005, add only 50g dextrose to bump it up to 3.8% and dry it out to 1.004, should start around 1.033, 60°c mash for 75m and mashout as you'd do. hops, 4 IBUs of lemondrop at first wort 4 IBUs of lemondrop at 30m and 20g or 1g/lt dry hops lemondrop. I've done it before with pride hops and it's been great, I use whirlfloc at 15m boil and gelatin finings, ferment under about a bar of pressure. You know the rest, cheers 👍👍🍻🍻

I cheated I used a FWK that I’ve done before with 34/70 that I really liked so I thought I’d do it again but with the nova lager