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I add hot water to the liquid malt extract to dissolve it, then add the other ingredients, then top up with cold water to the required volume, then stir like crazy and pitch the yeast. Never had a problem with the ingredients not mixing properly.

is that cider or a salad.....

The festbier turned out quite good! The clarity isn't great which I think was caused during the transfer to the bottling bucket, the siphon filter dragged through the trub and sucked up particles that were smaller than the filter mesh. Onwards and upwards, it's all part of the learning process!

Absolutely! I have enjoyed building my own recipes, and even with extract I can still create most styles using additional steeped grains. Another advantage is that I can now use a medium stockpot on the kitchen stove instead of setting up the urn outside (not fun in winter...).

I did about 8-9 brews using BIAB, in a 20L Swan tea urn. The end result wasn't great and I wasn't getting much enjoyment out of it. Looking over my brewing logs I found that my best results were from extract that I did a couple of years ago. Hence my return to that way of brewing (and it makes...

Hi everyone, new to this forum but have been brewing for about 5 years. Started off with plain Coopers kits, then pimping the kits, then extract brewing, then took a leap into BIAB all-grain, and have now gone back to extract brewing, aiming for a more consistent end product (and an easier brew...

I brewed this and steeped a small amount of crystal malt and used DME instead of sugar, this took it up a level in flavour and mouthfeel. If it's already in the fermenter then, as others have suggested, try dry hopping with a traditional English hop (EKG, Fuggle, Brewer's Gold, etc.). I tend not...

In the fermenter is my take on a festbier, using extra light DME, a bit of melanoidin and carapils, with Tettnang for bittering and flavour. I'm using a Kolsch dried yeast, but the temperature is 35 C here so plenty of frozen water bottles being used to keep things in check.