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[j1gsaw]

Hi gang,
I found this recipe in an old brewing book, will be next on the agenda.

"Uncle Arthers famous falling down water"
20 litre OG 1080 / FG 1016

1x Brewcraft Munich Lager
1.5kg LDME
2kg Glucose
10g fuggles finishing pellets
Munton Gold Yeast

**Use half of usual bottling sugar**

Should come out around 10% Alc :icon_drunk: Hello Headaches!

 

[brettprevans]

ahh the old brewcraft recipes.

they have edited slightly to look like this (from their website)

INGREDIENTS
1 good bitter or ale kit
1.5kg light malt extract
2kg glucose/dextrose
15g Fuggles hop pellets
BREWING METHOD
1 Mix the hop pellets with a cup of water in a saucepan, bring this to the boil then turn heat off.
2 Add the hot hop mixture & other ingredients (except yeast) to 2-4 litres of hot water in a bucket (less in hot weather, more in cold weather).
3 Mix thoroughly.
4 Half fill fermenter with cold water & add the hot mixture.
5 Add more cold water to the 22 litre mark.
6 When the temperature is 30C or less, add the yeast & continue making your beer as described in STAGES 2 & 3 of the step by step instructions on this page.

gotta love the 'add yeast when 30C or less'. man the fusils this thing will have.

 

[reviled]

10%?? I get 8.5% from 1080 to 1016???

I also really hate that book, I used to think it was so awesome but theres so much bad advice in there <_<

 

[chappo1970]

Should come out around 10% Alc :icon_drunk: Hello Headaches!

err... 10% ABV why trash a perfectly good beer?

gotta love the 'add yeast when 30C or less'. man the fusils this thing will have.

:lol: Who writes those instructions??
OT: mmm... yummy fusils! Why not leave it in a nice sunny spot in the backyard so it can get light struck as well? I know, I know under pitch and stress the crappolas out of it for those lovely phenol favours to shine thru, yeah that the ticket! :icon_vomit:

 

[j1gsaw]

Im coming to the conclusion that i should ignore what i read and just bloody ask you blokes! siiigh....

 

[brendo]

Im coming to the conclusion that i should ignore what i read and just bloody ask you blokes! siiigh....

+1...

 

[reviled]

Im coming to the conclusion that i should ignore what i read and just bloody ask you blokes! siiigh....

lol, I wouldnt say that with every book, just the brewcraft one, its such a bad book for beginners cos it sucks you in, making you think youve got this brewing thing down, then you come on here and get fully owned, like I did when I mentioned "keep specialty grains on a rolling boil for 20 mins" :blink: I got pretty flamed for that one, and it was all cos of that damn book <_<

Now john palmers book, or brewing classic styles, id listen to them for sure!

 

[bulp]

"keep specialty grains on a rolling boil for 20 mins" :blink: I got pretty flamed for that one, and it was all cos of that damn book <_<

Now john palmers book, or brewing classic styles, id listen to them for sure!

Oh yeah, got done with that one myself i have sinced burned that book in the fireplace, But Palmers and Jamils books are the goods.

 

[reviled]

i have sinced burned that book in the fireplace,

Vote 1 for best advice of the day :lol:

 

[chappo1970]

"specialty grains on a rolling boil for 20 mins" mmm.... malty porridge :icon_drool2:

 

[warrenlw63]

Hi gang,
I found this recipe in an old brewing book, will be next on the agenda.

"Uncle Arthers famous falling down water"
20 litre OG 1080 / FG 1016

1x Brewcraft Munich Lager
1.5kg LDME
2kg Glucose
10g fuggles finishing pellets
Munton Gold Yeast

**Use half of usual bottling sugar**

Should come out around 10% Alc :icon_drunk: Hello Headaches!

Beeroclock would have been proud of that one! :icon_vomit:

Warren -

 

[Katherine]

Who was beerOclock???

 

[THE DRUNK ARAB]

Who was beerOclock???

Katie, he was a very shortlived member of AHB who had a liking for "the sugas" :lol:

C&B
TDA

 

[warrenlw63]

A former member who liked his K&K brews with lots of "suga"

Don't see him anymore for some reason?

Edit: The Arabic one beat me to it.

Warren -

 

[reviled]

Who was beerOclock???

That idiot that came on here trying to say that raw sugaz and supermarket kit was the way to make beer, he hung around for a week or two then disappeared :unsure: Dare I say it was a regular user taking the piss h34r: If it was, it definately was funny.. :lol:

Allthough I think theres too much malt for Beeroclock, replace the LDME with 2kgs Raw sugaz bahaha

Edit : Funny how many of us remember him. lol

 

[Katherine]

Yeah I remember him, and the posts... It was only last year... But I thought he was someone already registered taking the PISS!!!!!!

So i was thinking someone might be able to reveal that person. Probably take the humor out of it though. We were all touch cow boyish when we first start K&K... ?

 

[Fents]

beerOclock = alias in my opion.

 

[Bribie G]

• My avatar tag says "Beer o'clock and all's well" but I wasn't me honest
• Having said that, in my very early KnK days I found that a Coopers Stout plus 2kg of raw sugar actually makes a drinkable brew although I don't think it would taste too brilliant nowadays to my more refined buds. Certainly gets ya hammered. :icon_drunk:

 

[Mr.Moonshine]

I tried to make that beer late last year when I was getting really into what that brewing crafts book said, but it ended up being bloody terrible. I switched the brewcraft munich lager for a coopers euro lager to save cash monies, but pitched everything else as stated. It looked promising at first, but ended up tasting really strongly of sulfur and other horrid things (Possibly infected, possibly just a bad brew).
+1 that book is pretty mediocre, it's just angled at making you a slave to the brewcraft products. To be fair I'm looking at some of their recipes as food for thought when cloning a beer, but for the better part the book is just a massive promotion filled with grammatical errors.