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In 2 lts of water you only need 200grams of ldme

thanks for the reply guys. I think i'll stick with a small boil for the hop adiitions and add the rest of the malt to the fv. cheers.

G'day. Does light dry malt need to be boiled to sanitize it or just putting it in the fv with some boiling water and stirring enough? Cheers.

Gday. Cjasing some ideas for a kit and bits or basic extract recipe for a kilkenny style brew. Cheers.

Reman, I'm gonna have a go at mastering your complex patent pending priming method. Danscraftbeer thank you for the calculater link its now on my phone. Cheers to you all for the great advice.

G'day, I would like to try bulk priming as I have had indifferent(usually overcarbonated) results from the drops. I don't want to rack to secondary so can I just boil the dextrose in a small amount of water and add it to the fermenter without stirring to avoid clouding up the beer? Should I give...

Cheers for that guys, as always good info.

G'day, just wondering if all the dry malt that goes into the fermenter has to be boiled first to sterilise it or is it good to go.

G'day, gonna try an extract. I've got a few recipes picked out but most state LME but having to mailorder ingrediants I've only got plenty of DME, what is the amount of dry malt to match 1kg of liquid malt? From what I've read of many posts should I add about 500g DME to about 6 or so litres of...

G'day, just used some crystal grain that were vacume packed and was wondering what wouold be the best way to store the remainder to keep them fresh, am thinking fridge or freezer or just clipsealed in the cupboard. Cheers .Kingo.

I put down a Cascade choc mahog porter and after reading all the bad press about the cascade yeast i used a brewcellar english ale yeast. It was slow to start and seemed to only falf do the job, when tasting before bottling it was sweet with a distinct dodgy taste that I have tasted from a dodgy...

I'll definately back what EK said, I'm in Central Queensland(Biloela), we've had a couple of weeks when temps were down to 6 and 8 degrees and 25 during the day( so I'm not sure what the bottle temp would've been. I've tried a brew that was a month old and tasted very green and just carbed, I...

Cheers guys, it sounds like its the norm. Kingo.

Has anyone else had this, I just went and invested in a third fermenter(the missus wasn't quite annoyed enough with me doing 2 brews at a time). This fermenter had a white tap and with the fermenter now on its second brew I saw that there were a couple of drops of brew stuck in the tap outlet. I...

G'day, whilst cleaning out the carport I found a few old Morgans teabag hops still in the foil packets, these would be at least 2 years old and probably subjected to a couple of summers. Would they stilll be usable or just turf them?( the foil packets are still sealed)Cheers Kingo.