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Have always made ales, so no need to go to this stage. Have been reading up about largering, but always comes back to force carbed kegging. Just wondering if there will still be enough viable yeast cells to carb my beer. Have always bottled due to space/cash. Can I larger at -1c for a week or...

Just wondered if anyone knew what temps to ferment this yeast at. Tossing up whether to try it or pitch S23. Have a lager mashing now.

Have been putting off making your all amirillo version of the golden stuff, till this weekend amid the pouring rain, discovered I had all I needed. Brew day went perfectly on saturday and filled the fermenter with 25 litres of lovely 1046 wort. Pitched at 17.5 with US05 and thought nothing more...

Don't know if any one has been reculturing wheat beer yeasts, so thought I'd throw it out there. I'm pretty keen to throw down a decent WB, but my only easily available yeasts are WB06 ( I find this over cloved) and Brewcraft wheat beer yeast ( which I've never used). I have successfully grown a...

Just thought I'd throw this out there. My mash tun (75l marine esky) is way bigger than my fermenter frige can handle. just wondered if anyone has attempted to store wort before and does it lose the aroma/ flavour of the hops used. I'm only asking as I just see so much wasted space in the mash...

Hi all. been playing with ales for a while now and decided to have a crack at a pilsner. Only prob is I wont be able to get to my HBS for a while and want to use up some of what I've got. I do have another HBS close by that only does kit and extract but does have a fair assortment of yeast...

Had an urge to put a brew down 2day as I had a recultured CPA yeast ready to go. LHBS was closed so went through my kit and decided on a BIAB using 5kg JW pilsner, 400g JW pale crystal(vienna),200g med crystal, 300g malted wheat. Mashed at 66c for 90mins, in 33litres. No sparge. Ended up with...

Hi all. Gonna have a crack at my first wheat beer next week. Am thinking of doing a 50/50 mash of JW pilsner and JW malted wheat(Cos thats what I have) Dont know if this is a good idea as ive never been down the wheat path before. Was planning on a 26l batch using 3kg of each. May use some...

wanna try something along the lines of a fatyak. Not really sure what times and how much to use in the boil. Am planning on a 25l batch. Kit consists of 115g cascade, 300g galaxy, 400g POR,60g halletau, 400g motueka. was thinking the cascade and halletau was what I needed, but no idea of...

Want to make a nice ale with EKG, have 90g pellets in fridge and want some recipe idea's. Want to use at least some of what I have in my kit at the moment, so what I have becides the EKG is 3kg llme, 750g ldme,750g dex,750g crystal, 500g pale malt(grain),500g carapils.500g chock malt(grain), 10g...

Just thought I'd throw it out there. Anyone got any ideas on a boags wizard smith clone in extact? I can taste/feel/smell the EK Goldings but theres a spiceyness I'm not sure of.What do you think? Any of the AG guys managed one I can try and copy or convert to extract? I hav'nt been to Tasmania...

Went thru my kit yesterday and decided it was time to clean up. I've got 2 CPA kits, a Coopers English Bitter ,1.5 kg ldme,1kg dex,50g Goldings, shitloads of Motoeka. As well as Crystal. Was thinking of doing both CPA's with a 5 litre boil of (no kit in boil) 300g...

Put down a k+k on the weekend after doing just extracts for a while. used a CSA kit,1.5 kg llme,300g ldme,100g dex, 350g crystal malt(milled and steeped at 70c and then allowed to sit and cool for 12hrs in 1.4l) did a 10l boil starting with grain juice + 1l sparge. added llme + dry fermentables...

Just wondering what the difference between mash and steeping is.Have finally decided to start moving from the extract + grains to all grain (as soon as funds are available) and have noticed that the craftbrewer site shows weather grains puchased are for steeping or mashing.I have always done my...

Hi all, just thought I'd ask some more experianced extract brewers what golden syrup and Irish moss bring to the finished product. A lot of the recipes I find on the net call for these but I've never used either.I've also seen quite a few references to whirlfloc instead of Irish moss.Is there a...

Was goin to put a brew in on the weekend so thought I'd get a yeast starter goin on Sat-never had an issue with re-cultured CPA so did as usual --sat and sun and half of monday were over 30C --hadnt released pressure from my swing top starter for 48 hrs as usual (in winter)--As I was pulling it...

Gonna try the move from K+K for next brew and was going thru my kit to see what was left and came with this for my first try 1.5kg llme 1.5kg lame , 200g crystyl grain,500g ldme,300g dex,150g corn syrup.----all grain and dry sugars in 10 litre boil with 500g lame.-10g bsaaz @ 60min, 10g...

Hi all, a mate of mine (with no net access) was telling me today he's sick of keeping an account with BOC since he only makes 6 or 7 brews a year,so is thinking of giving it up.- I suggested he could always bulk prime before kegging instead of gassing(correct me if I'm wrong-I'm a bottler)so...

Have noticed a few posts about the difference between dry hopping and adding to boil on this site.Have done quite a few brews using the boil method,and have noticed the grassy flavour that comes thu from so long in the fermenter.Just thought I'd ask if I'm doing the right thing by throwing my...

Have done a couple of cultured yeast brews now and dont think I could go back to dried.The method I've been using is a 1 litre boil with 100 grm ldme and the dregs of 2 CPA stubbies(Drank from glass) after cooling and leaving for 7 days.Just wondered if there are any ways of improving this or...