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I have heard that salvation jane is meant to be a good honey for brewing, though i have not used it yet. I believe it is a clover based, but am unsure if you can get it from the supermarket. The only honey i have used is yellow box and i have no complaints, very tasty in the red that i did. Check ...

Finnigannn, Castor sugar is actually finely ground table sugar. To make your own just put some sugar in the food proceser for a bit, let the sugar dust settle before opening and their you have it. It is sold as superfine sugar in the U.S. It is called caster sugar because the grains have been ground ...

Yeah fair call bullfrog,i have read it is dextrine based, didnt know it was specifically for head retention just that it was a good spec grain rather than base- malted grain. I did think though it is a good starting point to get into grains. Would you recomend a malted pilsner and would it need ...

Rotten how are you going, i know what you mean about how quickly the obsession is growing. Going to sleep latley thinking about the next brew, or what i can do to improve ect. Found the perle hops. If you go to the craftbrewer web page and enter it into the key word search it should come up. it says ...

this is the recipe i put down
Black rock EIPA 1.5kg
LLME 1.5kg
carapils 250g
dry wheat ME 200g
cascade 12g @ 40mins
ammarillo 7g @15mins
saaz 7g @ 15min
ammarillo 7g @ 5 min
saaz 7g @ 5 min

good work guys. thanks for the calculations anna. Makes a big differance to batch IBU though
re-calculated most recent brews tonight, eg Irish red i thought was 26 IBU is acctually 35.7 IBU .

:oops: Rotten just been reading anna's post and realised my info on beersmith is usless, as i'v been using brewmate sorry mate (talk about bum steer). As anna said though it is a free download so have a look (easy to use). Have to let us now how the amerillo-saaz PA goes, just bottled one myself ...

Glade to hear you got it sorted. The recipe sounds good, i must admitt you have me thinking more about lagers than ales at the moment. I have a couple of PA's in mind, one with cascade & chinook, one with cascade & nelson sauvin (fat yak inspired), so i might have to dedicate one fermenter to ales ...

rotten i'v had a good play around with brewcraft & cant work out what is wrong. All i can think of is resetting the defaults, or downloading it again. Let us know how you go.

Rotten, not sure what your asking exactly. I'll give it a go though. I have the IBU for euro Lager @ 18.5 ( Though reading the coopers tin IBUs thread this could be wrong), so i would use cascade as a deffault hops, as it has nothing to do with this recipe and has a good alpha acid %. Under grams i ...

Haerts must have been in your mouths, rotten & TL. Won, but only just.

Just ran the recipe through beersmith.For 23L O.G 1044, FG 1011. IBU 32.7. colour 5.9 SRM.
BU GU 0.74. came in as a German Pils( colour a little high). When you are formulating a recipe go to settings and change to extract, also change the grain setting to weight. Have fun.

rotten how are you. Stick with beer smith. Dont have a box for add after boil, just enter it as 0min's as it adds nothing to your IBU. Remember to add the IBU of the can,(which for the Euro lager is 18.5). I usually do this with a deffalt hop so it dosnt confuse in the future. Add the the tin as it ...

No i am confused on the reading of and writting up of the hops boil times i recipes. I thought that for a boil of say 60min if you added your hops at 20min that would mean they were in the boil for 40min. Looking at some other recipes it seems that they are written as hops that are added at 20min ...

Anna I think i could be saying sorry to you, looking at some other recipes. Anyway I meant for the Amarillo and Saaz hops to be boiled for 15 min and 5 min, getting confused msybe someone could clarify things for me.
Cheers Crisp

Anna as by now you are aware that i now have downloaded a copy of brewmate, thanks largely to yourself. As a result I put through the recipe you had already so kindly done for me on this thread, and found a minor discrepincy. The IBU that you posted was from memory about 46, however when I put it ...

Hi anna. That is the problem with these letter things, it took me a good couple of minutes to work out what it was myself, and i wrote it. IYAM , (if you ask me). It took me a good couple of weeks to work out one of your favorites, (OH , Or somtimes, MOH). I think i know most of them, exept for some ...

Thought as much. Thanks for the clarification though, saves me wasting a good brew .

I'm already quite sure that on reflection that this question is a little silly, given that it is esentually a dairy based product, but here goes. Can condensed milk be used in a cream stout either as a substitute to or with lactose. I am wondering wether the heating proccess could kill off the dairy ...

Yeah cheers for that bullfrog, IYAM & IMHO there is so many of these, I cant work them out MOH thinks the same.Anyway hear is the recipe I ended up going with.

1.7 kg tin Coopers Canadian blond
1.5 kg tin LME
250g caramalt
85g chocolate malt
50g roasted barley
350g yellow box honey
12.5 g goldings ...