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Yeah i know carniebrew, i did the calcs also and knew it was way down on bitterness. To be honest I wanted to try a toned down beer, something refreshing after a hot day. The last few have been a bit over the top flavour wise. But alas, I must be a hop junkie as this one doesn't do it for me...

Thanks guys, i am aiming for a pale ale.... But i do like my hops. Might just go the whole 40g straight up! Thanks again

Hi everyone. I've recently finished a keg filler that I tasted last night right after i force carbed it. Recipe as follows: 1.7 kg coopers pale ale 1.5 kg Morgans extra pale lme 0.5 kg dex 0.5 kg DME US05 yeast fermented @ 18deg 23L total vol. It tastes pretty boring, no off flavours or...

Hey guys, just an update on this one to close off the thread. After rousing that yeast in the afternoon fermentation finally kicked off but was very slow. Took about 2 weeks for this to ferment out to 1018. I was going to wait a little longer to see if it would ferment out further, but...

Yeah mate i know. I keep getting told to eat more grains so i thought, why not drink them?

Thanks for the help everyone. No floaties, and i didn't run off a cup of wort before taking the OG readings. The yeast was safbrew US05. I never make a habit of pitching out of date yeast but was desperate, and have used a packet 12 months out of date in the past without a drama. Lesson...

Cool, thanks

I actually used his spreadsheet to derive this recipe. Thus thought all would be good. Gave the wort a stir up this arvo. If this doesn't rouse the yeast, will adding more cause any adverse effects? BTW the sample was drawn from the tap

Hi guys, decided to do a keg filler two days ago. Recipe as follows 1.7 kg coopers pale ale 1.5 kg Morgans extra pale lme 0.5 kg dex 0.5 kg DME Filled fermenter to 23l. Used safbrew us05 Yeast. And pitched at about 23 degree c. The og I measured before pitching the yeast was 1100 which I...

So this behomoth fermented out to 1008 to my surprise. Kegged it after 13 days. Force carbed it. Poured the first glass... Good head. Looks like mud! But OK, pretty drinkable. No twang. Hard to describe the flavour. If I had to, maybe tastes like a guiness crossed with maybe a Newcastle brown...

Thanks Carniebrew, i realised that fact after I posted here. Apologies for putting this in the wrong section. I knew I was mixing things that aren't usually mixed together. But these were all of the left overs i had that have been there for a while, and just wanted to clear the cupboard...

Thanks for the feed back. The dog was fine,only just got hold of it but did enough damage to send it to the bin. I'm assuming its too late to add some more yeast at this stage? Put this down on Sunday. The final vol ended up being 23l. I kind of knew I was going a bit overboard, by the sounds...

Hi all, I've not brewed in a long time, and am still a bit of an amateur. But the other day decided I would get back into the swing of things! I had some leftovers in the cupboard that I thought I should just use up rather than go out and buy new ingredients. So this is what I ended up...