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Thanks Les! Will there be a version of the results with names next to all entries?

Last year the rules were a limit of 2 entries per category, max 1 entry per style. This year the rules simply state: Does this mean we can enter 2 beers per style? - e.g. 2 x Australian Pale Ale?

Just received my score sheets so if you don't get them today, should be tomorrow.

Rossco - as I understand, steeping extracts mostly flavour & colour, but very little in the way of fermentables (as opposed to mash). I certainly would not expect steeping 150g of grain to extract the equivalent of 300g DME. 500g DME plus 150g steep will not get you near 1.040 - you'd be lucky...

I pimped a Mangrove Jacks Belgian with a tin of light LME and 600g light DME, and used Wyeast 3787 to turn it into a Belgian tripel. Came out great - one of our best beers back when we were doing kits. No hop additions, but it could have handled some easily to balance the banana & clove from the...

7th, 8th and 10th in our categories (and a 23, oh well). Given it's our first comp and we've been brewing for only 4 months, we're stoked! :beerbang: Cheers to the organisers/judges/stewards, and to everyone here on AHB who has given us advice, it's obviously working! Watch out next year when...

I'm not much of a sweet tooth, so tonight's dessert was homemade bresaola, cured duck breast and pickled cucumbers. With a Chimay Blue.

No, looks good SBOB. I'd use 800g DME to get 8L to 1.040. 100g per litre is the guide I use. Wouldn't bother taking a grav sample either - just go straight into the boil. It doesn't need to be exactly 1.040.

Pongo, to answer your question about bulk malt extract, I bought a 25kg bag of Muntons light DME for $160 which works out at $6.40 per kg. I keep it in a large plastic food-grade bucket with a tight seal lid.

Haven't done a wheat beer yet, but we use amounts of dry wheat extract regularly, and have done a Saison and a few Belgians (a tripel and a Rochefort 10 clone). The Rochefort 10 clone used coriander seeds, and in the Saison we used coriander seeds, cardamom pods and lemon peel. Roast the seeds...

Good stuff. You'll get that time down after a few more brews. I brew with a mate and we can fill two fermenters in about 3 hours - and we've only done 13 brews so far. Now you can start experimenting with different spec malts, different hop varieties and combinations, different yeasts... How...

No, 1kg DME in 7L will be fine for the hop boil - your gravity will be around 1.050 which is fine. As for the extra malt, you're only going 300g above the recipe - the difference will be barely noticeable. These are best practices rather than hard-and-fast rules. You could screw up the...

You don't want to boil the grain bag, it will introduce bitterness. You want to: 1) Steep the grain bag in around 70 deg water. An easy method to get close to this temp is to add one part cold water to two parts boiling - I'd aim for at least 5 litres if you're doing a 60 min boil. Steep your...

We kegged this one on Sunday and its a cracker. The SGs are prominent but sit underneath everything with a nice earthy flavour. First use of noble hops in an APA and I reckon we'll do it again. Amarillo is there, resiny up front with a nice bitterness towards the end. We found our single-hop...

Cheers Menoetes. Yep, lots of hops in the sample - it was quite murky. So we took another sample & let it settle overnight - still 1.066. From what I've read online, hop particles shouldn't affect gravity anyway. I'm guessing the malt might have sunk to the bottom making the sample gravity...

Cheers Pat. Put this one down on Tuesday night - we ended up with this schedule based on Menoetes advice: 20g Styrian Goldings @ 60m 20g Amarillo @ 25m 15g Galaxy @ 10m Picked up some Citra and will dry hop 20g towards the end of fermentation. Will then put down another brew using the...

Thanks Menoetes - you've pretty much confimed my thoughts. Had a feeling I had the Galaxy & Amarillo flavour/aroma round the wrong way. We've done single hop ales with Amarillo and Galaxy so far to get a feel for each hop individually, so I might pick up 100g Citra, dry hop with some and then do...

G'day all, Second post to the forums - before I get started, just wanted to say a quick thanks to everyone on the AHB forums. This place is a goldmine for beginners like my mate & I, and it has made our venture into homebrewing much easier than we thought it would be. Now that the soppy stuff...

Hi all - first post to the forums but have been reading and brewing for about 2 months now. Read this thread from beginning to end and am now inspired to start curing meat. Have already forewarned SWMBO. Has anyone tried making sobrassada? First tasted it a few years ago at a pub in Sydney...