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sweet cheers mate. will bump it up a bit in ibu, and hop burst. so that much choc is fine yeah? ive been told to go easy with choc malts but as i said its a little more tame than most

bump anyone?

ok so im looking for a nice dark ale. punched some figures into ian's spreadsheet and cam up with the following coops light tin coops amber tin .5kg LDME .2kg TF choc pale(is 500-900 so its alot more toned down then normal choc malts so quantities should be increasable..... i think) .2kg TF...

cheers mate. wont bother

the foamy **** that floats to the top of your boil as it gets hotter and hotter is the "hot break" yeah? are u sposed to scoop that **** our or leave it in? i think i remember somewhere it said get rid of it.... or maybe cold break.... cant remember

alright i might not try minimashes just yet. thus for an easy extract should i: 1tin pale 1 tin dark 500g dex steep some dark and maybe some carafa? same hop schedule thoughts? EDIT: punched those numbers into ianh's spreadsheet with .2 of dark and .2 of munich 2 and no carafa that gives me...

sorry for the silly question, but.... l_bomb's extract version cannot be done with simple steeping? does it need to be a mash? also, steeping is more or less soaking cracked grains in hot water? and mashing is steeping ground grains? sparging is just washing through the grain sock hot water...

I'd add the Carafa at sparge too just to see what effects this has on the flavour cheers mate didnt realize u do grains seperately. i would have just put them all in together and steeped for 40 mins. mmmmm maybe this recipe not for me then :( EDIT: oh and your 0min add of cascade is that...

so before i go and make the same mistakes u do.... what are you looking at changeing? maybe half kg less of malt? and half kg more of grains? or maybe a little less? also are u thinking of increasing each type of spec grain of just one inparticular? cheers mate

just did a forum search for both mountain goat dark and white rabbit, after spending a few nights at the archive in bris and sampling many many australian boutique beers ive decided i want to go for a nice dark. cant find a clone for the mountain goat dark but was very interested in the extract...

ok so 2 week taisting is today(as i type). very bitter, but not a bad, dry your mouth out bitter, quite pleasant. there is a little bit of bite from the high alc but nothing like what i was expecting. the only thin im realy unipressed with is the amount of hop flavour. maybe next time i should...

i work in a bottle-o and just had a couple of cartons of becks come in that are actually imported, not the stuff that is brewed by lion nathen, anyone know if they are going back to the way things were, or if there was maybe just a shortage or somthing? either way i will enjoy it while i can

aye? there are still a number of companies using crown seals. crownies, little creatures, gage roads, coopers tallies, guiness, the list goes on, alot of premium beers still use them. i personally would love to get hold of some old grolsh bottles but they are costly when they do(rarely) pop up...

+1 for not racking 2 secondary if u can get away with it. to me its just an extra chance at infection, and probly more importantly, oxidation. so i dont bother, coldcrash primary- rack to second to bulk prime - works a treat. just as u rack have your can a couple of inches from the top and move...

lol im doing everything by eye at the moment.(11 dolla ebay scales broke after 2 weeks) i like to think of myself as the Huey of homebrew, but meh im not in it for perfection, or exact replicas, just taisty beer

just cracked her nice flavours and taiste but **** me its bitter. would look at only doing 10-0 min additions and alot less next time. nice dry hop though i recon. think i will try this one again, has some good potential

ive just gone down the same experimental road with galexy. there is a thread that i posted with alot of ppl throwing in suggestions. probly wouldnt hurt to check it out. http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum//ind...showtopic=44093 been bottle for 2 weeks now(i think) so i might throw one in the...

from my personal experience of late, i have been adding too much. dont get me wrong i do like a bit of fiz but i will be cutting down from 180 to maybe 150 for 23lt batches from now on

that was my first thought also. but as explained by megs, carapills are only 3-5 where as others are much higher, this means that with the carapills u can use much more of them. it kinda makes sense when i think about it but i will just have to wait and c how the 23 ltrs of evidence turns out i...

made this brew today using meg's advice. used goldings as thats about the only english hops my LHBS had(fiddled with american hops enough for now) and i used 50g of them as they are only 4.8% so i went as follows can coop APA 1kg BE#2 .8kg carapills 50g goldings us05 boiled the goldings for...