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I've made a couple batches of all grain ginger beer - pale malt with a ton of caramel and toffee malt to add body and residual sweetness but it's still pretty dry. So I back-sweeten to taste. In the glass add a small amount of hot water then 1-1.5 teaspoons of sugar or honey (orange blossom...

I got the ingredients to make a first pass based on the recipe I posted above along with the advice in the thread - once that is done and I've seen how it turns out I may well give this a go. It sounds great.

I got curious and did a bit of looking - I reckon it was a Kwak that I had, and my brain just made it Kviek, though they are completely unrelated. I usually like belgian beers, but not Kwak.

It was a kviek fermented beer (Def not a Kriek, which I do like) - just at a belgian beer cafe. It was a while ago - so maybe I am remembering wrong as well.

Thanks for sharing this - particularly the Vic Secret pick on the yeast. I haven't used it before - so definitely wouldn't be able to pick it. Does this recipe land a little more noticeably on the barley malt side for the base given the 70% barley vs GB? I ask as I tried Four Pines' Aussie Wheat...

Wow, that's an interesting one. I haven't used any Kviek yeast before - does it have a strong flavour? My only experience drinking a Kviek beer was many years ago, was at a beligian beer cafe and not to my tastes, but it sounds like this was a pretty great outcome. I'd probably up the wheat...

I just went from an Inkbird to the Keg King. The Inkbirds have a well-known issue where the measured temperature randomly spikes by 1-3 degrees and then slowly drops back down to the actual value. Inkbird know it happens in some units but their support won't admit it because they would then be...

I haven't made mead before or used Kviek yeast, but that looks like krausen to me. If you google 'spotting infections in fermenter' there's a more beer article with some good photos of what common infections look like. I've read some comments from other brewers that any time you see green...

I did find that article as well - after finding a few "American Wheat Beer' recipes it did lead me to think that this was a rebranding/marketing exercise. The Green Beacon ones I had on the weekend were a bit more lightly bittered than a typical pacific ale but a similar amount aroma and late...

Brilliant - yeah think I will give eclipse a go. Nice to try something new. I have experimented with a few yeasts now - the dry kolsch yeast (Tried K97 and Lallemand's Kolsch yeast) I haven't found too fruity but they definitely have a distinctive taste in the bottle. If you get too much of it...

Thanks for the reply - I'll check out the BYO article for sure. Seems like there is a bit of a dearth of info out there on this style - but I'm pretty certain this will be the next brew once my fermenters are free, so will report back.

Has anyone had a go at something like the Green Beacon Mollyhawk Aussie Wheat Ale? Some other takes on the Aussie wheat ale style I've tasted or come across are the Hughie Wheat Ale and Pirate life Wheat Ale. I had some Mollyhawks over the holiday break and loved them so am going to try make...

I've had two instances where I had off flavours. 1. Two brews with a brand new plastic 30L fermenter - thoroughly cleaned and sanitized before use both times. Both started out fermenting clean and then went bad - ended up with some bottle bombs from the first batch. I cleaned that fermenter...

I've sent through a PM with the key things I have learned. Happy to chat more!

I don't like IPA myself so can't help with recipes - but happy to chat general BIAB approaches and recommendations if you need them. I'm not nearly as expert as some of the peeps on here but the BIAB journey is relatively fresh in my mind and there are a few things I wish I had know when I...

Was in Aug 2020 - Morgan's blue mountain lager kit and kilo that came with the starter kit my partner bought for my birthday. Even used the yeast that came with the tin. Hands down the worst beer I have ever made where something has not gone wrong (had an infection that came with a brand new...

Thanks for the reply - that's really interesting and lines up almost exactly with my experience earlier this year. The first batch was blonde ale, a style I've made dozens of times without issue and couldn't really match the issue to the descriptions of common off-flavours, the next one was the...

Hmm, interesting. I had a two batches earlier this year with strong off flavours (Definitely not ginger) that were brewed immediately after a batch of AG ginger beer in the same fermenter. I put it down to either an infection or potentially not de-chlorinating sparge water. First brew definitely...

Hi - I'm from SA (Umdloti) now in Aus but much newer to brewing than you are from the sounds of things. I've not read how to brew yet, basically just went off relatively extensive online research and trial and error. Welcome on board.

Got a blonde ale in the fermenter about to be dry hopped and making an AG ginger beer on the weekend and next weekend taking a stab at an english ale. Know it won't be proper due to the yeast needing to be suitable for bottling but have a mate who is dead keen on it.