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I'm of the mind of not leaving it for too long in the fermenter. If it's stable, bottle it. Stick some int he fridge for a week or so after carbonation is done and it will be less cloudy. Cloudy isn't a bad thing I don't think. If you had a fridge you could cold crash it, but if it's done and...

I'm not too sure of the balance of crystal and Amber grain, but it did require steeping yes. It is a bit "toasty" in flavour which is not bad. It's an interesting mix in that it teaches you a few basics about using grain. I'd go more grain in future but I'm limited by pot size and kitchen...

I phoned up the LHBS, perhaps I scorched it a bit, I think Forky you are right hence the dark quality, if I were to do it again I would ignore the instructions and just top up the boil rather than stuck it all in. It was well mixed though. Apparently 1.054 is about right though and it's on the...

So starting Gravity was 1.054, currently sitting at 1.014. It's quite dark and I think I will cold crash it to drop as much floating sediment etc out as possible. It's still a bit cloudy or opaque. The kit is a pre-boxed kit of two cans of Blackrock Amber and the grain and hops, all unlabelled...

Recipe calls for two Amber cans... Specifically. [shrugs]

Hi guys, Anyone brewed this kit from Daves home brew shop in North Sydney? Recipe is two Blackrock amber cans, an unspecified amount of unspecified crystal malt (600gms on my scales) plus an hours worth of hop boil additions all to 19L. Came out very dark, very caramel on the nose, 1.054 on...

I'll take a look at the hip schedule but for the malt I'm probably going to go with what I have in my cupboard as this is essentially an entire new recipe with only a little cross over with what I have. I'll plug it in the spreadie to see how it goes though.

Well the two cans were supplied by LHBS but when I plugged in that recommendation to the spreadie it came out lighter than I'd like pretty much across the board. I have 2kgs of coopers BE1, 1kg of LDM, a bunch of Citra, cascade and Amarillo, I'll be ordering the grain as I want a fuller body...

Hi guys Looking to create a punchy, full flavoured American IPA - used IanH's spreadie and am looking at doing the following....which brings it right in range... 1.7kg Coopers IPA can 1.7kg Blackrock Light LME 1kg LDM 500g Medium crystal grain Steep grain at 70C for 30mins in 1.5L and...

Jumping in on this thread I'm looking at the same thing - ideally like a SN Torpedo, punchy in strength, malt and hops. At my disposal I have: Coopers IPA can 1.7kgs Blackrock light malt can 1.7kgs LDM 1kg 2kgs coopers BE2 Various yeast US-05, bunch of kit yeasts Cascade, Amarillo and Citra...

My first brew was the coopers lager. I pitched at 26 - it tastes like very appley beer! You might be luckier. If you have a very cidery taste it won't ever leave fully as far as I can tell. Best thing to do is... Get another brew on ASAP! Let the first one have some time. Even Worst case...

As closure I ended up just pitching three stubbies of coopers yeast into the 21L wort after letting warm up from the fridge, (one stubbie smelled a little funky so chucked it). Just bottled at 1010 and it's already lovely! Didn't make a starter in the end just reactivated four bottles and...

Hi guys, bought two off eBay as first one was going to take weeks from HK. Was too impatient! Want what the Aus one cost me, $25, Face to face Sydney CBD during the week. Cheers Tom

So by doing a mini starter in each bottle I am effectively resetting the viability date? And in terms of mls is that just the yeast cells collected at the bottom? I suppose if kept in sterilised water you would just measure the yeast cakes volume when fully settled?