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DrewCarey82

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Okay, theres always plenty of All Grain recipes on here but I know there are heaps of kit brewers on here as well.

No doubt we'll get a few ribs about better yeasts and all that stuff that most kit brewers dont bother with.

I have a fair few fav's but am after some more yummy beers to try.

And please no AG guys telling about recipes they made 10 years ago the inevitable "but I could never brew a kit again".

All recipes keep to 22-28 degrees.

1.
Brewcraft Belgian Ale.
Ultrabrew.(500g light malt+250g MD+250G D.
2kg of nectarins boiled for an 10 mins then simmered for 30 mins with constant mashing using a potato masher.
Throw all into a fermentator for 7 days, then rack for another 7 days.
Best at 4-7 weeks in the bottle as it has a real full nectarine flavour in the mouth which dissapates after this time.

2.
Morgans Blue Mountain Lager.
Ultrabrew
Primary 7 days, rack for 7 days, simplest recipe and smoothest beer you'll taste good @ 2 weeks fantastic after 6 weeks.

3.
Coopers Draft.
Coopers Brew Enhancer 1.
Cheapy, Primary 7 days, rack for 7 days, simplest recipe and smoothest beer you'll taste good mates who love Tooheys new go Burko over this best with 4 weeks in the bottle gets better with age obviously.

4. Black EI pale ale.
500g LM, 500g Dextrose Cascade hops. lovely appley taste Primary 7 days, rack for 7 days, simplest recipe and smoothest beer you'll taste good mates

5. Beermakers Old.
500g dark malt, 500g light malt. Primary 7 days, rack for 7 days,
Best @ about 6 weeks similar too tooheys old.

Post away peoples interested to grab some more recipes :)
 
This was the best kit + kilo recipe I did when I was doing that kinda thing..

Now that I have run out of grain I decided to do it again last weekend (still fermenting of course) Am looking forward to see if it still is as great as I remember.

Morgan's Canadian Light
500 Dex - 250 DME - 250 MD
10 grams Halleratu
10 grams Tettanger

Originally done with safale (no fridge back then) but this time around I am doing it with wyeast danish lager
 
Made a very nice CPA recently.

Coopers Pale Ale 1.7kg
Brew Enhancer 1 1kg
Light Malt Powder 500gm

Primary for 7 days, rack for seven days. I keg my beer so it was nice after about a wekk in the keg, and got nicer as time went on. Although it didn't really last that long.

Cheers and beers

Craig
 
Licorice Stout

Made this recipe up and it tastes bloody great. If you can resist and leave it in the bottle for a couple of months it is a dream.

Coopers Stout
500g Dark Malt
300g Licorice
500g Soft Brown Sugar
Coopers Supplied Yeast (Ale)
20g Fuggles Hops

Chop up licorice and add to pot of boiling water. Boil for 10 minutes. Add Can contents, DME and sugar and 10g of the hops and boil further 5 minutes. Disolve in last 10g of hops.

Dump the whole lot in the fermenter. Don't bother straining.

Bottle with normal priming. Store and forget for a while.
 
Black Rock - East Indian Pale Ale
500g Dex
250g DME
250g MD

Pitch @ 24
Ferment @ 18
Primary - 7 days
Secondary - 7 days
Condition - 2 weeks (can drink after a couple of days and it's still good)
 
Has anyone used Morgans masterblends have to admit @ only 2-3 extra I am tempted to start using these instead.
 
Drew, one of my favourites is the 3kg ESB Czech Pilsener - the ones in the paint tin. Last one I made with 20gms American Stirling in a mug of boiling water for 15 mins, throw that in the fermenter too. Made it with S-189 German Lager yeast, 10 days primary, 2 days rest, 14 days cc. Bloody bewdiful, refreshing, tasty and takes half an hour to prepare. Always have a batch of this on the go.
Cheers
Steve
 
I've done the ESB Aus draft which was sensual after 2 weeks in the bottle.

Have to give the czec a go as well with ur additives.
 
Steve said:
Drew, one of my favourites is the 3kg ESB Czech Pilsener
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If you want a beautiful beer try Grumpy's Czech Pilsner (Masterbrew range) one day. Still haven't been able to make one that matches that yet.
 
My best ever kit brew was:

1.7kg Coopers Draught can
500g DME
500g Dextrose

Short boil, with 10g of Pride of Ringwood hops.

Yeast starter made from a couple of stubbies of Coopers Sparkling Ale.

The resulting beer was about the strength of Coopers Pale Ale but with a fruity/bready flavour like Coopers Sparkling Ale. Delicious.
 
Agree Troywhite - done that one - also a pearler! :beer:
 
I've got a Coopers Draught can with 1Kg DME 500g of dextrose and 25g of Amarillo in primary atm. I also like the Coopers stout kits with a kilo of DME and 500g dextrose.

I love supermarket sales. 20 litre kegs of drinkable beer for $14 and 30 mins :D
 
This is my staple:

1 can Morgans golden sheaf wheat
half can Morgans wheat malt
brew blend#10
supplied yeast
saaz hop bag into secondary
can take a couple of weeks to ferment out.

Cheers for all the recipes
:beer:

richard
 
I am actually going to be doing that morgans one in the next week or so have brought a wheat masterblend to go with it.

Really looking forward to it.

Anyone got any chocolate porter kit recipes?
 
Coopers Lager (or Draught)
Small mash of 250gm each flaked wheat and pale grain in the 2L Thermos
15 minute boil with 10gm Super Alpha (or 20gm Hallatau or 30gm Saaz)
Disolve the kit and 300gm dextrose and make upto 18 litres.

Delicious from the keg
 
Mmmmkay thats getting a bit technical for a kit and kilo recipe!
 
Maybe quick & dirty then ?

It's real easy, quick and no specialist equipment required.
 
For a cheap lookalike LCPA add 25g Cascade to a can of Coopers Draft and a Kg of LME :p

cheers nm
 
My 2nd best...
Tooheys Draught with 500g Dex and 500g White sugar (yes sugar)
The sugar gives a bit of an edge.

My all time fav.....
Morgans Queenslander Bitter
1kg Dex
Drop in pot with 1L water; heat till just starts boil, drop in 12g Hersbrucker and turn heat off. Allow to cool by standing in sink of cold water.
 

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