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This weekend I just closed the fermenters lid on an adaptation of this recipe. I haven't worked my way up to all grain yet so I tried to make it with extracts. 3L - Pale LME 1kg - Dextrose DME 200g - Crystal Malt 60min: 30g Willamette + 10g Hallertau (just some leftovers and I was too cheap to...

Can't he message an admin with the text to add to the first post?

Sweet, yeah that makes it look much more sane. Thanks for your common sense help :-)

Yeah that's what I thought, but the original recipe is.. 85 g Saaz (Czech) (Pellets, 3.5 AA%, 60 mins) 25 g Galaxy (Pellets, 15.0 AA%, 55 mins) 20 g Cascade (Pellets, 8.4 AA%, 50 mins) 10 g Cascade (Pellets, 6.0 AA%, 10 mins) 10 g Galaxy (Pellets, 15.0 AA%, 10 mins) 10 g Galaxy (Pellets...

Awesome work Ian, i'm having fun plugging in recipe ideas. One usability note though, not on the spreadsheet itself but the forum thread. You should edit your first entry to include all the versions of the sheet as it comes out. It's fairly standard forum practice for this kind of thing. At the...

I'm looking to make an IPA and i'm roughly copying the recipe here http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...amp;recipe=1300 modifying it for extract of course When I throw the hop schedule (replacing Saaz with Willamette) into the Kit and Extract Beer Designer spreadsheet I get an IBU of...

I used a Belgian Ale Yeast WLP550 for the peppery/citrus character it has (seems to have worked too!). If they carb up too much I might see about bulk priming for my next batch.

Well.. I let the bottles go and they seem to be carbing up super fast!! I've tried a couple of bottles already and they are really nice.. The recipe on the day was ever so slightly different to my OP, but overall I think I absolutely nailed this "white rabbit: white ale clone" attempt. As...

Hi guys, quick question. I just bottled this brew on Saturday. It's been sitting on 1.010 (from 1.050) for about 5 days so I'm sure it was finished. I'm using the plastic beer bottles from brewcraft and primed the bottles with carb-drops (2 per 750ml) Now my first batch (asahi clone) hasn't...

Here's an update: The fermenter has slowed right down and I think it'll be ready to take a gravity reading in the next couple of days. It's got one hell of a krausen layer on top (I guess the oats helped with that) Just to confirm.. I should just leave the krausen alone shouldn't I? I don't...

I'm definitely going to try this one after my white rabbit attempt finishes (fingers crossed) I think i'll make labels for it as well, probably call it "EAC".

Jebus! 300g? That would be quite spritzy! I couldn't find "bitter orange peel" in the dried pre-packaged form anywhere so I just used a zest of an orange (28g-ish total) and I tried peeling a little deeper than recommended for zesting for cooking so I got some more of the white pith which...

From the research I did the oats seemed to be a prominent theme in white beer recipes. Not a huge qty, but just enough to give it a smooth mouth feel and a little better head retention. I just used rolled oats which seemed to be what was recommended. The mini mash worked really well, it was...

Yeah i'll put some malt for the steeping (i'm following the mini-mash instructions from the home brewing book I got with my Brewcraft Delux kit)

Thanks for the tips and info on where to get the orange peel. A little more info on the hops, when I was looking through the white labs yeast I noticed the wit beer yeast WLP400 had fairly regular comments regarding a fruity notes and taste but I don't remember tasting or smelling that at all...

Hi guys, My first kit is bottled and I'm fairly confident it's going to be tasty (brewcraft asahi, smells and tastes good at the mo - just waiting to carb) I've recently been quite impressed with White Rabbits new White Ale and thought i'd have a go at a partial clone. I've had a scour for...

Watch out with putting water on top of the fermenter as well. Often the seal around the air lock is not perfect so with water constantly sitting on to you'll be seeping non-sterile water in.

I put an additional layer on the outside of the box last night with some quite dense foam. Looks great now. Since the glue on the inner layer was completely dry & popped the fermenter in and added a couple of frozen drink bottles (I say the drink bottles in a 4L ice cream container to catch the...

Hmmmm... I'm getting visions of dry ice, or a butt load more frozen bottles. [edit] I guess i'll start saving for an old fridge i can convert ;-)

Oh.. I thought lagering could be done at anywhere from 5-0deg? All the information I've found on lagering seems to back this up, is my info leading me down the wrong path? I'm aiming for 4deg if possible.