Recent content by hermtrails

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm certainly learning a lot! I wrote a proper post this morning on the computer with my actual recipe and how I did it but it isn't appearing on here using my phone. One thing I did was over arb my first keg (using 10L kegs) and had to burp it for a week, so it...

im doing kits atm so recipe was as follows... brought brewblend 15 and 150g wheat malt to the boil in 3-5 litres (no idea, didn't measure water at time or record that part) and simmered for a few minutes. turned heat off and added 15g Willamette and 15g cascade and steeped for 15 mins. I had...

Fantastic. I'll have a play around with different additions and I'm sure I'll get the result I'm after eventually

All good advice so far thanks guys. So late additions and dry hopping adds more flavor and aroma compared to earlier in the boil?

I did a kit beer few months back that had 15g willamette and 15g cascade which I added into the boil (brew lend and wheat malt) for the last 2 minutes and then let steep for 15 mins before adding to fermenter. The beer turned out nice but lacked much hop aroma or flavor. I then dry hopped the...

Is it a cropping area? If so you may want to talk to a local farmer and see what variety of malt barley they are successfully growing. You need to be able to sow it, keep weeds and disease out as well as insects, apply fertilizer and harvest it. Probably didn't help much though sorry

Yep fair call it's just double the amount of yeast as the other kits I've made

I ordered the midnight mosaic recipe kit and am curious if I should use the yeast provided? There's 3 x7g packs with it so I'm just wondering how much of it I would use? Otherwise I do have a bry-97 and a Nottingham on hand. Thanks