How's it goin' eh?!

[TheCanadian]

Hi all,

I'm new here. I joined a few months ago but shortly after I took a break from homebrew (for no good reason any of you fellow brewers would deem acceptable I'm sure)... but I'm getting back into it now.

I started about 2 years ago with a simple kit set and I've slowly made my way up to the point where I'm at now. In 2 weeks I'll be doing my first All Grain!! Very exciting times, I know.

I've got most of the gear... basically everything except for the grains, hops and yeasts. In all my brews I've never really made a dud batch, but some have had some heavy floral flavours. I've read about all the reasons for this and I think I can safely attribute this to higher fermentation temperatures. I'll hopefully solve this by setting up an old fridge with a temp controller. We'll see though... there's a bit of testing to do yet.

Anyway, I was wondering if the Beer Gods out there might recommend some simple recipes to start. A recipe that includes a hearty yeast that isn't too sensitive would be great!

Thanks,
theCanadian

 

[Blind Dog]

Welcome

Dr Smurto's golden ale in the DB is tried and tested. Uses US05 which is pretty forgiving and clean. Easy to use it as a base to play around with hops and / or spec grain as well

 

[TheCanadian]

Sounds good! I picked up everything I need this past weekend and plan to do it on the weekend. Thanks for the advice!