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Ok no takers. Thought I'd try a bit of a hybrid Wheat/Ale then. 1 x Coopers Light Malt Extract 1.5kg 1 x Coopers Wheat Malt Extract 1.5kg 12g x Pride of Ringwood 10% @60mins 20g x East Kent Goldings 6.1% @60mins 20g x EKG @15mins 20g EKG @Flameout 20g EKG dry hopped after 5 days Pitched onto...

So I have a Hoegaarden style wheat using WB-06 yeast just about to bottle, but I was thinking about experimenting with putting another a pale ale down onto the yeast cake. Has anyone tried this? Have plenty of Cooper Light Malt Extract, a can of Wheat Malt Extract, Cascade, Magnum, EKG, and...

Cheers for the responses. I'll try rehydrating both sachets tonight and make up a starter. If she starts going then I'll use it to pitch into a "Wizard Smith" Clone on the weekend. Fingers crossed. Leon

This may sound like a dumb question but is there any problem in seeing if an expired yeast sachet can be rehydrated and then cultured up in a starter wort? If the yeast is dead it obviously won't start, but would there be any problem using it if it does work? Was given 2 sachets of expired...

Mate I tried making an all Rice Malt Ale late last year and the fermentability of the stuff is terrible. From memory, I brewed it for about 2 weeks, hardly any Krauzen, little airlock activity throughout the whole brew, actually swirled the brew several times throughout the 2 weeks and added...

I'm pretty sure it was only $2 a tub at the local asian grocer. Are you using yours as an adjunct or as the base for a brew? Do you find it ferments ok? As I said earlier, I couldn't seem to get it to ferment very well. Leon

Well I brewed this up last month, and got it bottled on the 4th of December. I ended up having to add two extra sachets of yeast over the 2 week brew and even then I could not get the SG to drop below 1028. (OG was 1042). No Krausen at any time during the brew. I swirled it several times and...

Well I'm finally going to get around to making this brew tonight. Will probably take Nick JD's advice and drop the 15 minute POR addition. I have been drinking a POR Ale I made using POR as a flavouring hop and it's not that exciting so I think I'll keep it as a bittering hop only. I'll...

Thanks for the comments guys, I don't have any yeast nutrient but I could try upping the yeast quantity, I have 3 jars of Nottingham in the fridge from an old brew that I can use. Nick JD, do you think the second POR addition will make it too bitter or too hoppy? Maybe I could drop it and add...

Not sure if anyone has tried this yet but I just bought 6 tubs of 500g Chinese Maltose from the local asian grocer. I've seen a couple of posts about using this stuff as an adjunct in beers but I was thinking of an experimental "Chinese Maltose beer". Thinking of (from ingredients on hand)...

Cheers for that. Leon

When you crash chill a beer for 24 hours + , do you have to warm it back up at all before bottling, or can you bottle straight from the fridge. Cheers, Leon

I agree with you both Nige and Citymorgue. I work in retail as well and I know how even when you have put things on special and cut the margins big time, there are always customers who want more discount, or there is a competitor who is selling it cheaper than you. I am just suprised that...

I was kind of referring to the retailers and site sponsors who frequent this site, rather than thinking about a co-op type arrangement.

I'm suprised that someone locally is not thinking of selling half kilo and kilo lots of hop pellets. Surely if they are retailing locally for about $8-$10 per 90-100g, a half kilo or kilo could be solf profitably at roughly $6-$7 per 90-100g. I would rather pay a couple of dollars more and be...

So this brew has been sitting in the fermenter at about 16-18 degrees for 7 days. Took an SG reading today and it is sitting at about 1020, so still a bit to go, though I am suprised it is still at this gravity after a week. I have given it a swirl a couple of times and have taken it out of...

So I ended up with a 5l boil with 500g LDME, boiled 10g of Centeniall for 30 mins for as a bittering hop, then 15g B Saaz flowers at 15 mins and 15g B Saaz at 5 mins. Upped the Coriander to 30g crushed and zest of about 6-8 oranges for about 40g zest (wet). Boiled this for 15 mins. Added the...

G'day guys, I am looking for an extract recipe for Hoegaarden. I was thinking, 1 x Thomas Coopers Wheat Malt Extract 1.5kg 500g x Dried Wheat Malt 500g x Light Dried Malt 500g x Dextrose 15g Coriander Seed Bunch of Orange Zest Danstar Munich Yeast 23L brew What sort of hop schedule do I need...

Mate don't fret about the cider and ginger beer too much. For the cider you make your own with store bought 2-3L bottles of Apple juice and ferment them in the bottles. Pour out 100ml of juice, add about 100g sugar and 1/3 of a sachet of yeast, cover with glad wrap and a rubber band and leave...

OP: Could try using sour cherry juice in secondary to see what effect that has. Reading the ingredients on the Lindeman's Kriek bottles I have at home (I think it's Lindemans) The ingredients are Water, Malt, Wheat, Cherry Juice 30%. Maybe I can just get 6 odd litres of Cherry Juice and add...