Recent content by J Grimmer

FYI, Craftbrewer sell a Pilsen Light Extract in dry form.

FYI, just found season 1 at big W for $5 clearance at Mount Ommaney in Brisbane.

Personally I have found very little difference between the dried an liquid coopers malt extracts and more often than not I use the tubs from my lhbs and he assures me that his turnover is very high. I recently got my hands on some breisse malt extract and all that I have read suggests that they...

i am a fan of coopers, bottle conditioned ales The pale ale or mild are my go to session beers, and i do enjoy the stout and sparkling ale also keep an eye out for the vintage it will be a one off annual release.

Dont forget about the Big W units $20 for 19L SS stock Pot, I would go bigger rather than smaller as you will more space to avoid a boil over (and this will give you more flexiblity in the future my 2c) other than that go the 15L one thing i have found a larger volume will be slower to loss heat...

i wouldn't say the only, but definately onbe of the most widely available, or easily accessable US Crafts

I have used bothe coopers and no name LDME in brews side by side and noticed no difference between the 2.

I always found liquid malts to be more cost effective so i normally just use pale liquid as a base, it depends i gues on the turnover of the HB supplier your using. If in doubt go the tinned cans or the dried malts.

The last time i did this it was greyish and smelt fine, could it be murky due to being roused??? If you are worried about it i would not use it and start another culture, i found it easier to do it with several bottle dregs, like 2 -3 tallies, more cells to start off with i guess.

Off topic, Ive noticed a lot of issues with Dans and the quality of imported beers, I will admit ive never had any issues, has any one had success in returning the fualty good to them, letting them know it has been miss treated, i know that wine will be exchanged if it has corkage, why should...

A smokey flavour would add a interesting aspect to this kit, peatted malt can be found at craft brewer, http://www.craftbrewer.com.au/shop/details.asp?PID=811, alternatively you could age a portion of the beer on charred barrell chips.

last year i did a kolsh sort of beer out of the beer and brewer mag TC Pilsner 1kg LDME 150g Wheat Malt 150g Pilsner Malt 20g Hallertau @ 10 20g Hallertau @ 0 Used US05 (should have been a kolsh liquid though) Mini mashed the grain. all in all not sure if it was close to a traditional kolsh...

these are proberbly a little more tried and trued than my method and now withdraw my previous comment.

Have you thought about doning a 10-12L boil (as you are using mostly extract) with a gravity of 1.040 and using the cold water to bring the temp down as oppossed to no chilling? I thought this would stop you having an overly bitter beer at the end.

I dont think the IBU will be 2 harsh as there is a lot of malt sweetness to balance it out in the kit, i am a big 2 can fan, i would reconmend just the 2 cans. Just remember as you have already talked about it might need some age on its side to get to its full potential.