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evening all, i'm after some critique on this recipe. i've been planning a dry stout for the weekend and have a heap of smoke malt left... thought this might work. ive used a classic dry stout recipe of 70% pale 20% flaked barley and 10% roast barley, but subbed 10% of the pale malt for the...

Morning folks Ive over adj my sparge water with lactic acid I was aiming for 5.6 but it's. Ow at 4.9What do I do? Not worry? Add carbonate?Cheers

hey folks brewing a american brown tomorrow and am after suggestions for an appropriate water profile. I'm a little ashamed to admit I've been a 5.2 stabalizer brewer for the past 2 or so years. I've purchased a ph meter and am keen to get my head around basic water chem, I'm brewing with melb...

hey folks not posted for a while.... I'll be making a 1.065-70 beer this week (ipa or stout) , i've not decided on a recipe as yet. my prob is stepping up a yeast starter, I usually split my packets into 2. I store half and make two 1.5L starter's for 23L 1.050 grav beers with very good...

just wondring if anybody has one of these pots in there brewing set up, im after the 50L for a mash tun but might consider the 70L for a kettle. $174 delivered sounds like a great price for one of these...... http://cgi.ebay.com.au/NEW-COMMERCIAL-50L-...=item2eb1e1ebc9

folks! brewed an IPA about a week and a half ago and it is still in primary, sampling outa the hydro vessel suggests that i have under hopped the beer, it finishes quite sweet and cloying. I'm tipping my bittering addition was not enough, i have already dry hopped the beer once not to add...

hey folks!! I've made american wheat which I want to put onto cherries in a couple of days, I've decided Im gonna pasturise them in 80deg water for 1min, drain, then put in a sanitized container and freeze for a day or 2, when they thaw out I will put them in a fermenter and rack the wheat beer...

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Im keen to put a beer down this week end but am all out of ideas on what to make..... I've got a heap of vienna and pilsner malt I want to start using plus spec malts (Munich, crystals,carapils melanoiden....), also a good selection of eng,american hops on hand my only real limitation is my...

Im wondering if it is at all advisable to simply scale a recipe down to reach a lower OG, I'm aware some brewers will make 2 beers from a single mash ie: porter then mild or maybe a ESB then ordanary bitter. I made a great American brown ale a few months ago and would like to make the beer...

I've done a search on here for threads about American Wheat beers, cant find too much. I was wondering if anybody has any recipies for this style they are happy with? I'm aware of the criteria for this style ie: about 20-30 IBU's, neutral american ale yeast, citrus hops........ I've put...

anyone know the best place to get a cheap 30L ferm in the S/E suberbs?? been to bunnings but can't find there ones, what isle thy meant to be in?? 40-50 bucks is a rip off i recon from the local home brew shops..

This is driving me crazy!!!!! Im aiming at 23l @ 1.050. I've got my efficiancy set at 75% Boil of @ 28% I collected 28L @ 1.060 Dilluted to 39L @ 1.044 when i punch theses figures into beersmith it tells me im gonna end up with 23L @ 1.071??? F@&K!! What am i doing wrong ?? I've now...

hey, had a look in the search but found nothing.....i've got a dunkul weizen at FG for the last 3 days still sitting at ferm temp, I dont have time to keg just yet since im going away this arvo and wont be back till tuesday, I need the beer to be at prime condition for the 4th of sep...

I'm having trouble using darker malts!!! its very frustrating all my milds, brown ales and a stout i've made are nice clean beers but they just seem to lack any of the "darker" malt character, they just seem a little thinner and not as full flavoured as my paler brews. I've tried mashing...

Hey, Been racking my brain the last few days trying to come up with a dunkel weizen recipe. I've come up with a bit of a hybrid of Jamils and my own. Im not too confident creating my own recipes so I find the best way is to "tweak" proven examples. Please give me any thoughts.....will ferment...

planning next weeks brew and have decided on a American IPA. My insperation is the Brew Dogz Punk IPA. I love the brilliant pale colour of this beer and the punch in the face hop profile. I wanna use a simple malt bill. and aiming at a O.G 1.055 was thinking 100% Marris Otter, also gonna use...

I'm just after some opinions on this brown ale recepie i've come up with, i've sorta mashed this one outa the Classic Beer Styles series (Brown Ale) the recepie calls for about 8% Treacle but I've substituted it with Indian Jaggery sugar. Ive been wanting to experiment with sugars in brown ales...

I've got one in the ferm fridge for the last week at 17deg ramped it up to 19 deg for the last couple of days, it has now hit FG. wondering if there is any point crash chilling a weizen after fermentation is complete? Im wondering because a weizen naturally has suspended yeast. also weizens...

hey! just putting together a american brown recipe, Im not to sure with what pale malt i should use as a base. I normally use Marris Otter for most of my pale base malts but I'd like to give the Aussie stuff a stab, just not sure which one?? any ideas?