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I just received a whole new shipment of fresh Grolsch seals so I threw together a very quick wheat beer for Summer refreshment. 1 tin of Coopers Cerveza + 1 tin of Thomas Coopers Liquid Wheat Malt extract + 1.6L of hot water (for mixing/cleaning out tins) topped up to 23L with cold water...

I made this the other day and it came up well. It's a little bit like Dr Pepper or a root beer. Indeed, I got the idea from looking on the net for the ingredients that make up Dr Pepper and root beer and it includes ingredients that are reputedly used in both. Although, my one has it's own thing...

Several months ago I made a very large batch of Apricot jam. Unfortunately, I burnt the entire batch. Not overly so, but enough to notice a slight smoky flavour when you spread it on your toast. This smoky taste is not so appealing in the on-your-toast context, but works really well in BBQ...

Here's a few beers that I have made recently. Coopers Bitter aged for three months in the bottle. Just a 1.7kg can of Coopers Bitter, a 1kg bag of Coopers brew enhancer 2, and the kit yeast, all made up to 23 litres. Fermented at 16C for two weeks before bulk-priming and bottling. Served at...

Here's an economical dish I threw together yesterday for an early dinner. Came up very nicely. I made a batch of Coopers Cervaza a while back with 500mls of rice malt syrup, 500g of dextrose and 20g of Bavarian Saaz pellets as aroma additions. At first it was a little too cidery but has now...

Money is tight @ the moment and I'm forced to try out things with my beer in order to keep the costs down. One thing I do like to add to my enhanced kit and kilo recipes is specialty grains like chocolate and crystal malt. Although, they bring little to no fermentable material to the mix they do...

I read in this forum that you can use regular supermarket gelatine as finings. I haven't used finings before but I thought I would give it a go on the batch of lager I'm currently brewing because I don't have a secondary and want to clear it up a bit. I don't have any problem with the method of...

I've always had a strong interest in curing my own meats but have never been able to source saltpeter (potasium nitrate). I've seen it for sale online in the U.K. Does anyone here know where you can obtain food grade saltpeter or proper curing salt (which usually contains some sort of nitrate)...

Heres a little something I made recently which goes well with a good German or Czech style lager, although a nice light ale would work too. The Larousse Gastronomique (1984 edition) describes Welsh rarebit as a “British speciality consisting of a slice of toasted bread covered with a mixture of...

I had a magnificent BBQ on the weekend and this beer-brined BBQ chicken was the centrepeice of the Weber. It's easy to make and the smoky, salty flavour is outstanding. It has strong Continental flavour that, oddly, almost resembles lightly salted smoked pork. I served it with some grilled...

I had some spent specialty grains left over from a steep. Usually, I give these to my chooks but I thought I might try and eat them myself so I could get a bit of roughage. The recipe went something like this. 50g (dry weight before steep) of broken spent Chocolate malt 200g (dry weight before...

This post is a copy and paste from a thread in another HB forum. Wanted to replicate it here for some more coverage. I've been pondering writing a post on lacto-fermented soft drinks for quite a while, but I've been in beer mode and haven't done any homemade soft drinks for a year or so...

Edit: Sorry, the thread's title shoud read "Messing around with Beersmith" but I can't figure out how to change it. I recently downloaded a trial version of Beermith (see Beersmith) to play around with and have used it to record some of my previous recipes and conjure up some new ones. It runs...

Greetings all, Just wanted to see if anyone on the forum has a cheats recipe for an Altbier using a kit, extra hops and other fermentables, like malt extracts as well as specialty grains. I've done a search for the type but it mainly looks like a beer type made by All Grainers. I'm not looking...

Greetings, I was reading another home brewer's forum and there was quite a long and overly positive thread about Cooper's Bitter (see Cooper's Bitter). I noticed that a lot of brewers on the thread said that this was a great drop and came up well when you use Cooper's Brew Enhancer 2 (BE). I...

Greetings Brewers, Just wanted to see if anyone out there knows of the general composition of Matilda Bay's origianl Redback wheat beer. I'm thinking about brewing something like this, amongst other brews, in the next few months (in between writing my dissertation for uni). Though, I haven't...