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Hi All, I've not brewed in around 6 months and wanted to try an all-grain BIAB brew to clean out the hops I have left: Horizon (9.1%) - 30g Pride of Ringwood (9.8%) - 40g B Saaz (7.5%) - 20g I'd imagine they would lend to a Pale Ale? If so, anyone point me in the direction of a recipe to use...

I did this one the other night on a 60 minute boil. I added my first lot of hops at 40 minutes as I was no chilling. So far, so good. I came back out about 20 minutes later and the gas had ran out and being too inebriated to drive, I had to leave it be. So, it was probably only boiled for maybe...

I've got a Chinook and a Hersbrucker Hallertau which were both planted in early spring 2009. Last year got nothing from either, but this year they have both flowered to varying degrees. The Chinook is just a single bine with at a guess around 30 hop cones. They are pretty big and when I pulled a...

UPDATE: Just opened the cube. It fizzed when I opened it. It smells of baked beans. Even for a wheat beer, that's not a good look! She's heading down the drain!

Yeah, I'll try and save the yeast. I've had it on the stir plate for 24 hours now. Shall I just chill and decant the beer, then swirl with boiled/cooled water and store in a jar?

. No idea to be perfectly honest, first time I've made a wheat. Aside from that, all the same. I'll toss I think, not worth the frigging around

I did a a BIAB wheat beer a couple of weeks back and no chilled as usual. All good, squeezed all the air out and left in the shed as normal. I fired up the stir plate with a Wyeast wheat in readyness to pitch in the coming days when I noticed that my cube had taken in air. Very weird as it had...

I don't have any brewing software at the moment so I'm a bit stuck!

There's a recipe in the DB for a 10 minute IPA which I'm keen on having a crack at: http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum//ind...amp;recipe=1192 I was going to Pride of Ringwood for this (8.9%). How would this translate to NC given that the recipe calls for one mega addition of hops at 10...

Sorry to sound a bit thick, but what do you mean by removing hops? As in add at flameout in a hop sock, then remove that before No Chill? Also, I saw a diagram on a US homebrew site regarding NC. It showed a 10 minute regular addition would translate as "FWH" for NC. Anyone have any experience...

Thanks Nick, I've seen that calculator before but I can never quite figure out what the figures are for NC. For instance, it calculates I would need 136 grams for a 23 litre batch at 1060. Would I add these as a cube addition once I have flamed and whirlpooled?

Anyone know how many Pride of Ringwood I'd need (8.9%) to do a no-chill version of this?

I was actually thinking of getting an aquarium heater for doing brews inside (ales, etc). It never occurred to me to use it to keep a lager at around 10c. Good tip.

The problem is my garage is exposed on one side, so ambient temp is a bit much to hope for. I think I'm gonna french press and add the saaz anyway now (thanks dr s!), around 15g. So I think i'll rack the first to a secondary fermenter and use the yeast cake for brew # 2 and put that in the...