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I recently dry-hopped as much as 77g of Citra in a 60/40 ale/wheat grain bill and the burst of flavour and aroma was amazing. It also endured right to the very last drop in the keg. I'd get the IBUs up to around 30 with late Citra in the boil (Citra is usually around 12-15%AA so you wouldn't...

How rude of me.

I finally tasted Freezer Burn yesterday - outstanding. I reckon it has the perfect balance between alcohol, bitterness and hoppiness. And I'll never buy that many hops in one go so it may never be done again. I'll drink it while it's fresh.

I have harvested yeast from a brew and put it in a glass jar up the back of my fridge only to have it freeze. I just pulled it out and sat it on the bench a little longer before pitching and it made a great beer.

I discovered recently I need to set my Robo temp at least 2 deg higher than the intended mash temp. I have a recirc pump and use a yoga mat wrapped around the Robo too so your results may vary. The best thing you can do is measure the mash temp with a probe and it will tell you where it truly...

I assume you mean quantity? The recipe uses 400g. Here's the link: http://mylifeoncraft.com/?p=2672

I was going to buy some passionfruit pulp for this one. Not the sweetened canned crap but there is an online store that sells the puree frozen. From memory it was reasonably priced.

Interestingly I recently tried to do a Stone & Wood Pacific Ale clone with Citra instead of Galaxy as my local shop was out. I ended up dry-hopping 77g of Citra in 20L and the result was VERY close to Balter XPA. I used the normal Pacific Ale grain bill 60:40 Pale and Wheat and used about 20g...

I ended up going with Peaches for this one. It turned out a little to heavy (7.8%) for the style but absolutely delicious. It's still on tap now and my only complaint is that I can't drink much of it without getting too drunk! I got the recipe from Mary Izett and she mentions that she did...

This is now sitting at 2deg waiting patiently for a tap to open up. Should be on tap next weekend but a quick sample revealed a wonderful aroma. Quite bitter but that was in the recipe. Really looking forward to gassing this up.

I ended up with an OG of 1.063 for this yesterday. I purchased Pilsner malt by mistake so it will be a little lighter in colour and I boiled for 90min as I've read you need to boil longer to avoid DMS off-flavour. The scent coming out of the cube with all those hops was incredible. Will most...

Yeah I'll be shooting for a hop forward profile with minerals. You think the fuggles would clash with the other hops in late addition?

Here is my Freezer Burn IPA recipe: Est Original Gravity: 1.061 SG Est Final Gravity: 1.012 SG Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.5 % Bitterness: 67.7 IBUs Est Color: 13.8 EBC 6.00 kg Pale Malt (2 Row) US (3.9 EBC) Grain 1 96.8 % 0.20 kg Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (118.2 EBC) Grain 2 3.2 % 22.00 g...

I used just under 4kg of peaches for a 20L batch. The peach flavour is incredible and spot on IMO. What lets this Saison down a little is I probably used too much grain. It fermented out to 0.997 and 7.8%!!! Too much alcohol and it really overpowered the peach flavour at first. It has...

That sounds good, but I also like the idea of just mixing them all together and taking the average AA% for a rough idea of bitterness and then throwing half in the cube and half in dry-hop

Just tallied up all the hops in my freezer: Magnum - 59g Bobek 5.9% - 123g Mosaic 11.3% - 70g Cascade (I think) - 65g Fuggles 4.6% - 22g Citra 14.1% - 25g Nelson Sauvin - 23g Wilamette - 42g Mystery - 8g Amarillo 9.5% - 63g Cascade 6.6% - 55g That's a whopping 555g of hops in one 19L brew. I...

If I end up going with coconut essence I'll add that to the end of the boil. For the Chocolate Syrup - goes straight in as is. I've had good success by simply racking a blonde ale onto frozen raspberries with no bag or sock so will probably give that a go. Cold crashing should mean it all...

Coconut essence sounds like a great idea. The less matter I'm throwing into secondary the better. Plus the article about brewing with coconut mentions much care must be taken to avoid the oils getting in the beer and ruining the head retention. Now to find coconut essence.

How did this turn out?

Hi All After trying my hand at a Brown Ale recently I'd like to move into a dessert stout and why not go big early huh? I've *******ised recipes I've seen around the web namely the following: * I've used the following as a grain base - https://byo.com/stories/issue/item/3184-dessert-stout *...