Recent content by evil_as_skeletor

I'll check it, but I am sure it was ok. Like I almost said in the OP, I had once bought a 4 of one of either the Amber or Golden, and I disliked the flavour, so I gave the rest to a mate. And the flavour of these bottles instantly reminded me of that. I liked their "original" PA when I first...

This made me laugh. I kind of like it as a cheap easy to drink 'daily', I like my decent, more exotic brews too (Torpedo/West Coast IPA), but $3 a beer is too good a deal to pass up, I just got it slightly wrong this time...

Thanks. Welp, looks like I need to contact Mr Woolies.... It's a shame. So they've bought the Brand, but who runs the Brewery? Surely they are contactable...?

Hi, Not sure whether this is the place for this topic, or whether the topic is even justified, but I'll go ahead and ask anyway. I purchased a four-pack of Sail & Anchor Monkey's Fist PA from BWS (on special), and to my palate, it tasted more like their Golden or Amber Ale (I can't recall...

Yeah, I am not quite sure I understand the spreadsheet entirely. I must mention i will be using drops to carbonate the bottles.

Is that based on my piccy pic above? I wasn't sure what influence the Dry Hops had on the final IBU figure, as it didn't change. I cut it down a bit from where I first started, and it's still too much? If I told you I was a massive fan of Sierra Nevada's Hoptimum, and I generally don't...

Ha, both, yeah. I'm evil_as_skeletor on SAR, REW138 on Ausrotary, but I still use that nickname. Fancy seeing you here! EDIT: Just had a geez at your blog link in your sig, holy crap, you are very well set up for this! I figured this would be less expensive than keeping an older rotor on the...

I did a bit of shuffling and compromise and threw it in that spreadsheet. After cutting the Dextrose in half and adding an extra 500gm of LDME and also reducing the initial hop addition and subsequent hop bill a bit - again, compromise. It is more in the range of a little bit more hoppy...

That's awesome, all this is going to help A LOT! Will doing a 30min boil as opposed to say a 15 or 60 min boil make a significant difference with sugars attained? Will I be doing myself a disservice if I cut the 60 mins in half?

Thanks very much, BUM, that answers just about everything! I'll let you know how it goes. So max, what, 400-450gms of Crystal/Spec grain in this 5L boil? EDIT thanks GLAAB, I'll have another read after work.

I've sort of run the recipe through the spreadsheet. It comes out as too LOW OG for IIPA. Comes out as too HIGH IBU for American IPA........ HOW DO I ATTACH THE XLS?

Thanks for replying, I will be using 400gm of DME for the boil, then adding the other 600gm to the fermenter (as a sort of K&K with the Coopers IPA). Are you suggesting I'll need an extra 500gm of DME in the fermenter at that point, and ditch half of the DEX? KIEFER33, I will try that...

Hi there, Could I please get some help and a bit of constructive criticism here, please. I have four hops in the freezer, Magnum, Citra, Amarillo, and Galaxy. I have around 250gm of Crystal Malt, around 500gm of Carared, 500gm of Carapils, and some Safale US05. I have a kilo of LDME and a...

Ha ha, classic.

Yeah, kinda looks great hey!? Would love to try it, might have to get my sister to send a bottle or two over (she's living in the states ATM).