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Dobbsy, mate if you've got the bottles out in a shed or something at this time of year they arent going to carb up because of the cold temperatures... try and find a place in the house that is over 15 bring a few tallies (long necks) and keep them inside in the kitchen near the oven or in the...

feels good man

i do a sort of mini-sparge with mine i move the grain bag into a sanitised steel colander that sits over a sanitised steel mixing bowl and pour 1 litre of hot, but not boiling water over the grain bag to extract more goodies and pour that into the pot and then i squeeze out the bag over the...

hey buddy :)

anyone keen to make the step from kit brews into extract brewing should check out this dudes videos: i found his videos to be really helpful and a good visual supplement to the sometimes overwhelming amount of information you get from this forum (and any text based information source for that...

so i want to try and make a dark ale that tastes as close to the real thing as possible.... i have been brewing dark ale kits with a kilo of dry dark malt and US-04 with some success for a while now but after buying a sixer of coopers dark i could definately taste an english style hop in there...

dont tip it out imo, your beer will be fine

ok so i cracked the first of the wheat beers after they had been 2 weeks in the bottle and i think they may be over carbonated, i poured the first one into a frosty glass out of the freezer and the whole glass turned to foam. i poured another into a room temperature glass and it appeared to be...

thanks anyway but i came accross this site: http://webspace.webring.com/people/ms/sirl...Calculator.html that had a wider selection of beer styles and i found a belgian wit beer in theer and punched that into my calc and came up with 133gm.... internets ftfw cheers manticle, hey maybe we could...

quick question if anyone can help me quickly i am just about to bulk prime this beer using the 'beer is good priming calculator and i was wondering as to what type of beer this would classify as..... i have a choice of 'belgian ales' which require a low amount of dex or a 'german wheat' which...

excellent news... although im not a huge wheat beer fan myself i wanted to try something with an expensive liquid yeast to see what kind of flavours and aromas it would bring to the beer... i must admit though mainly brewed this for the missus so she can have her standard 1 stubby with dinner...

i have my first wheat beer in my primary at the moment, its one made form a recipe that i got from the grain and grape website. i used: ESB - Wheat Beer - 3Kg and for the yeast i used Wyeast Activator 125 ml Belgian Witbier 3944 the ESB kit actually had hop pellets floating around inside the...

i thought id add my method of keeping my fermenter cool to this thread i just put an old t-shirt over the whole frementer making sure to have the crew neck collar of the t-shirt pushed down into the recess of the lid of the fermenter, then i place one or two frozen blocks of ice (made from...