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Thanks Les! Will there be a version of the results with names next to all entries?

Last year the rules were a limit of 2 entries per category, max 1 entry per style. This year the rules simply state: Does this mean we can enter 2 beers per style? - e.g. 2 x Australian Pale Ale?

Just received my score sheets so if you don't get them today, should be tomorrow.

Rossco - as I understand, steeping extracts mostly flavour & colour, but very little in the way of fermentables (as opposed to mash). I certainly would not expect steeping 150g of grain to extract the equivalent of 300g DME. 500g DME plus 150g steep will not get you near 1.040 - you'd be lucky...

I pimped a Mangrove Jacks Belgian with a tin of light LME and 600g light DME, and used Wyeast 3787 to turn it into a Belgian tripel. Came out great - one of our best beers back when we were doing kits. No hop additions, but it could have handled some easily to balance the banana & clove from the...

7th, 8th and 10th in our categories (and a 23, oh well). Given it's our first comp and we've been brewing for only 4 months, we're stoked! :beerbang: Cheers to the organisers/judges/stewards, and to everyone here on AHB who has given us advice, it's obviously working! Watch out next year when...

I'm not much of a sweet tooth, so tonight's dessert was homemade bresaola, cured duck breast and pickled cucumbers. With a Chimay Blue.

No, looks good SBOB. I'd use 800g DME to get 8L to 1.040. 100g per litre is the guide I use. Wouldn't bother taking a grav sample either - just go straight into the boil. It doesn't need to be exactly 1.040.

Pongo, to answer your question about bulk malt extract, I bought a 25kg bag of Muntons light DME for $160 which works out at $6.40 per kg. I keep it in a large plastic food-grade bucket with a tight seal lid.

Haven't done a wheat beer yet, but we use amounts of dry wheat extract regularly, and have done a Saison and a few Belgians (a tripel and a Rochefort 10 clone). The Rochefort 10 clone used coriander seeds, and in the Saison we used coriander seeds, cardamom pods and lemon peel. Roast the seeds...

Good stuff. You'll get that time down after a few more brews. I brew with a mate and we can fill two fermenters in about 3 hours - and we've only done 13 brews so far. Now you can start experimenting with different spec malts, different hop varieties and combinations, different yeasts... How...

No, 1kg DME in 7L will be fine for the hop boil - your gravity will be around 1.050 which is fine. As for the extra malt, you're only going 300g above the recipe - the difference will be barely noticeable. These are best practices rather than hard-and-fast rules. You could screw up the...

You don't want to boil the grain bag, it will introduce bitterness. You want to: 1) Steep the grain bag in around 70 deg water. An easy method to get close to this temp is to add one part cold water to two parts boiling - I'd aim for at least 5 litres if you're doing a 60 min boil. Steep your...

We kegged this one on Sunday and its a cracker. The SGs are prominent but sit underneath everything with a nice earthy flavour. First use of noble hops in an APA and I reckon we'll do it again. Amarillo is there, resiny up front with a nice bitterness towards the end. We found our single-hop...