Recent content by McCraggen

G'day blokes, Any suggestions where I could grab some plans for a simple all grain brewery setup? My mate is keen to get one going, hes an engineer so he can sling most things together. 50-100L setup should suffice. Cheers fellas. Craggy.

G'day fellas, been a while, anyways been mulling a stout/porter/milk stout around the old noggin for a while. Just wondering what would be a sweeter stout recipe from a kit and bits and what would be a good hop choice? Cheers. :icon_cheers:

Who would have thunk it that a lack of hops in beer would be such a hot topic! The church of beer does not smile towards heretics!!

Okay cheers fellas, what about the beermakers lager?

Okay here goes: Beermakers old 1.7kg (assuming POR is its bittering hops) Black Rock Amber malt 1.5KG 200g crystal cara-malt 200g choc cara-malt maybe a little cascade for finishing (25g or so?) US-05 23L volume Anyone think this sounds alright?

I have been seeing some Joe White malts on offer here and there, im wondering if they are any good (assuming they are all australian barley), i guess you couldnt make truly authentic european styles etc? Any thoughts?

G'day, just wondering what the actual definition of a "partial" was, is it where about 50% of the fermentable sugars are from a mash? Also if a kit is used then how does one add more bittering hops or are none required? I just figured if your that close to AG might as well just make the leap...

Thanks for the heads up, Otherwise i would have had a dunkel alcopop-weizen, doesnt sound too appealing to me.

If i was to do a mash instead of a steep would that help at all?

G'day again, fashionably late as usual, I was going to do a bit of a blend of dry wheat/light dry barley malt and use the grain mostly for colour and a little body/flavour. The recipe would be something like... 1kg LD Wheat ext 500G LD Barley ext 2kg caramel wheat 25g (ish german noble hops)...

Okay guys im going to give a partial mash/steep a go, Making a dunkel weizen style beer and im using 2kg of caramal wheat grain (the steeping kind). Currently i have a 20L stock pot to use as a mash tun but ill need a way to filter out all the husks. Any ideas on whats the easiest way to go...

Thanks for the info, i got to go on this tour, sounds like an informative night. okay so POR and cascade sounds good to me, cheers.

How about: 1.5kg muntons amber malt can 500g crystal malt muntons blonde 1.5kg 25g cascade for finishing something like that perhaps? i guess i could always do the bittering myself, also i think there might be some sort of english hops in the brew as well so maybe fuggles and goldings?

Any ideas on this brew from a k/e perspective? its a quite tasty drop wouldnt mind giving it a bash.

Another dumb question im sure, but if i have about 500g of grain to be steeped, what sort of weight of fermentable sugars can i expect from it? as in 500g grain = ?g of malt extract. Im guessing the husks of the grain and the overall process would mean some loss but im just wondering how much...