Recent content by hobbsy4

I know this is old as the hills but I did a few brews back in 2010 and none really turned out that well. Not sure if brewing in the mining camp room was conducive to good beer. Six years on I'm back on the horse, firstly with an attempted Coopers Pale Ale with POR hops, 400g dextrose and a kg of...

Yeah my mate works at Dave's homebrew in North Sydney. He said that stirring it was the wrong thing to do....I read that the SG should be somewhere closer to 1.008 and on a thread someone recommended stirring up a beer to get the SG down. In my current mining town there is no homebrew shop...

Hi All, My first brew is a czech pilsener concentrate by brewcraft with 1kg of dextrose added. I had a taste just before, after fermenting for a week at a 22oC fermentation temperature, and it had a bit of a sweet aftertaste. The SG has come down to 1.011 from 1.040. I had decided to stir it...

Ok, thanks for your help. I will probably leave out the 400g of dextrose and just add the booster and hops. If I get a chance I might buy some LDME and add some of that instead, or add something like 400g LDME and 1/4 to 1/2 the extra dextrose. i'd say the corn syrup is maltodextrin - the...

Hi All, I'm fairly new to this brewing game - I put down a brew 2 days ago which is sitting at 24oC; maybe its a little high? The brew is a czech pilsener from a Brew Craft concentrate. Today I went back to the homebrew shop to buy ingrediants for the next brew when this one finishes next...