IMPROVE YOUR HOME. MAKE BEER IN IT.

"Improve Your Home" Edition

Home Improvement

After extensive review of the newest technology, polling you about what you want, and many hours of beer and brainstorming (we've found the new European Lager, featured on the right, works really well with brainstorming), today we launched MakeBeer.net 2.0.

What will your find on our new and improved website?

• faster and easier navigation
• easier to read fonts
• expanded Q & A
• expanded shopping cart capabilities allowing you to check on your orders past and present
• a blog where we address all things home beermaking and more

Because we've done this in an effort to serve you better, we want to know what you think. Take the new MakeBeer.net for a spin, and then drop us a line. Gives us another excuse for a beer and brainstorming session. Also between now and June 30th we are offering free ground shipping on orders exceeding $89.00 (only applies to the 48 contiguous states). Use promo code FREESHIP at checkout.

Cheers,

18 June 2008

Coopers
International Series
European Lager Concentrate Kit
$25.99

Europe is home to a multitude of breweries and as such, boasts a greater variety of beer styles than any other region in the world. Europe, being the birthplace of lager style beer, is considered to be the heartland of premium lager. Coopers European Lager captures the style of the finest quality lagers exported from Northern Europe . Serve well chilled in a tall, narrow glass with a generous head of 5cm or so and savour the herbaceous hop aroma and crisp finish. Get the package, including Brew Enhancer 2 and Coopers Carbonation Drops. The price of the package is $25.99, an additional $3.00 savings.

Another Dip into the Mailbag

Robert F. writes:

Hi. I made the Mexican Cerveza, but I accidentally added 2 liters more water to the brew and I was wondering if it would have a negative effect on the brew. I used the ingredients that came with the package, fermented it for four weeks, and this Saturday makes 2 weeks in the bottle.

No worries. Adding the additional 2 liters will make your beer a bit lighter in color, flavor and alcohol, but it will still be a perfectly drinkable beer. You might find its just the thing for these warm summer days.  2 liters is about 8% more volume, so you will find that your original gravity, as measured with your hydrometer, will measure about 8% lower than you might expect, in the range of 1.033-1.035.  You will also need to have 3 or 4 more bottles handy at bottling time.

Questions about beermaking? Email us at brewmaster@makebeer.net