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Thanks Manticle. My worries are eased!

I used a modified version of this recipe on Sunday to make a finger beer from scratch http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/30492-ginger-beer-recipe-scratch-brew-no-kit/ Now it seemed that all that sugar was going to make a high %abv brew, so I used 500g of dextrose, 500g of dark brown sugar & 500g...

Thanks guys. So far I have made drinkable beer from kits (with adding standard or special booster sugars & branded yeasts), but not getting awesome grin inducing beer. Will do a couple more & then get some unhopped extracts & crank up my flavours, because that is what I like Thanks again. A

Ignore that, sorry I have worked it out. Boil the malts / hops / grains and add to the kit. My brain sometimes...

Great, thank you for the clarification. I had felt that this maybe the case with hopped extracts not requiring a boil, but the book had me confused. Am i right in thinking that most 'kit' extracts are hopped extracts (hence why they attribute a flavor)? Are more experienced brewers boiling...

Correction - by finishing hops I meant dry hopping after initial ferment has subsided

Hi there, another newbie question. Apologies if this is covered elsewhere. Reading Palmercs book & site there is a strong recommendation to boil the wort for an hour to get a "much better beer". The advice is to ignore the instructions on the extract kits. Fair enough. But then I am confused...