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Well, just put in a 6 tin coopers order including one of their IPA tins which I've never tried before. As it just so happens I have bramling cross in the freezer and the yeast that's brewing my current pale ale is nottingham so when it comes in I will be giving their hop slam a modified go...

Same sort of beer as when you chuck the fridge leftovers in a pan and call it dinner, sometimes it's good and sometimes you just eat it anyway. I don't think you would normally mix noble and american hops together for example but you have a bit of a hodge podge of stuff and without adding extra...

A ) Good luck with keeping them and waiting, I fail at that every time b ) Taking the lid off will be fine, people do it all the time to dry hop or add other random stuff

They have been doing it frequently of late, at least 3 or 4 times this year so far. Don't know if they will keep that up or not.

If you are part of the coopers club you can order stuff directly from them for cheaper. I would just wait for them to do their free shipping and stock up with what you need, that's what I did last time they did free shipping and I'm just waiting for them to do it again so I can order another...

Same, 65ish for 30 minutes.

No real idea but I would probably use all the wheat and 1kg light malt, 60 min addition of 15g chinook, 10g at 10min and the hersbrucker at 5 min made to 23 litres. Should give you a balanced 5% alcohol and ~25 IBU beer. I would then use the dark malt and the rest of the light malt to make a...

nope, as other say, it will be a little more bitter and a little more concentrated in regards to flavour and slightly higher in alcohol.

Depends on if it's a really big brew or not :)

From everything I've read no. Mostly 3 weeks is how long I have been leaving my stuff before bottling.

You shouldn't really boil the coopers hoped tins. I would also stick away from the warrior, it's a pretty high aa hop which along with both centennial and amarilo (which are also relatively high aa) will very quickly make for a very bitter beer. With what you have I would probably go with the...

I don't think 23 litres would work very well in a 5000 litre vessel, I can't even imagine how you would get it out witout getting all the trub as well :) 23 L in a 50 L however I believe would be no problem at all, or you could bulk it up by a few more litres and get a full 3 cartons of...

You can get grainy from extract as well, the bitter I did with steeped chocolate and crystal malt tasted like raw grain for at least 6 weeks before it started to get good.

"green" can be different things depending on the brew. I see it as the not quite right flavour, too sharp, too bitter, too much of something, not mellow enough etc.

Ah, just read back through the previous posts and saw the stuff about willamette. Guess I will just have to wait a bit :)

Well, the only lot I tried was US and I rather liked them. If the AU taste as good though I wouldn't really care.

Do you have any plans to get willamette in?

Yeah, Brissy was pretty bare as of yesterday as well

I think the BE 1 is 60/40 dextrose/maltodextrin so according to ianh's spreadsheet abv somewhere around 5.5% in the bottle IBU around 48 Any good... maybe, may be a bit bitter though

Well, I think my cerveza is going to have issues and maybe try to kill me. I popped a bottle today and.... it's fairly sweet and fairly heavily carbonated. I cold crashed it when it had reached and seemingly stopped at 1.009 but testing what was in the bottles shows 1.005... guess I should have...