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    Cry Havoc White Labs Yeast

    So I'm a bit of a tightarse and I figure Im sick of paying for all this lovely S04 and US05 safale yeast. I read up on starters and and Im having problems with temp control at the moment. So then I discover the signature series white labs charlie papazian "Cry Havoc" yeast. I'm made up a 1L...
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    Omg Amarillo Omg

    OMG. Amazing at only 3 weeks of age. Best beer I've made of the dozen or so since Xmas. Biggest difference was the hops, I think adding them dry after day 3 made a massive difference to their strength. Coopers Sparkling kit 1Kg Xlight Liquid Malt ext 500gms Light Dried Malt ext 200gm Caramalt...
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    Choc Topping Replacing Sugar

    Hi chaps, working up this recipe for an middle of the road aussie/choc stout, something unique for winter yknow: 20L wort 2 x coopers Kit yeast (the IPA yeast and a spare sparkling ale yeast) Coopers IPA 1.5kg dark LME choc malt 200gm 600gm brown sugar I'd like to replace some of the brown...
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    Best Time To Dry Hop/differences?

    Hi all, Making K&Ks, onto my 5th batch. Loving the help on the forums here. Giving me an edge over my mates... Dry hopping: I've seen a few recipes that call for adding your aroma hops AFTER the primary fermentation has slowed down, say the 3-4 day mark? I've only got the one fermenter (not...
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    What Is This Aftertaste?

    Hi all, I've just cracked a barely crawling, 10 day old bottle of homebrew, the bottle passed the squeeze test and cracked nicely, poured with great head great carbonation. Thing is, it's got this aftertaste: like a cheap ("great minchinbury", "hangover in a bottle" cheap) dry champagne, a...
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    Passionfruit Ale!?

    Hey guys, I've learnt and am still learning tonnes from this site, thanks to all for your guidance. First batch was a failure, second batch came up well and is still conditioning nicely. Put down my third batch last saturday so its coming up on a week now and its a departure from the amber malt...
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    "boiling" A Kit? Confused!

    Hi all, Newbie question: I've been reading up on various kit/extract based recipes and several refer to things like "coopers pale ale kit" plus x amount of malt and to add hops at 15mins into "the boil"... I've just made my first batch and the morgans tin specifically says not to let it get...
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    100can "cooler Bags" Still At Anaconda Dec 11

    Hi All, First post, thanks to everyone for sharing all their experience, I just put down my first batch early this week and found it all pretty easy thanks to reading this forum. Just wanted to post an update on the cooling bags that had been discussed in other threads back 2008-09. I rang...
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