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This is a partial mash recipe I put down last sunday:

* 500g Pilsner Galaxy
* 500g Organic Wheat
* 250g Flaked Wheat
* 100g CaraPils
* 1.5kg Coopers LME - Light
* 1.5kg Coopers LME - Wheat
* 300g LDME
* 100g Coriander Seed
* 2x Sweet orange peel (valencia, I think…)
* 45g Hersbrucker ...

I really see no way you could successfully BIAB that much flaked wheat! You would need a good lauter tun with a nice slow run off in order to get a good result.

You can make an esky tun for something like $30-35 (depending on what you have available to you, less if you already own a suitable esky ...

Try this one - it's a wee ripper....

* Coopers Bavarian Lager kit
* 50g Crystal Malt grain
* 1kg Brewcraft #67 (Spicy Belgian Wheat Beer converter – malt, dex, maltodex)
* 15g Goldings hops
* 10g Saaz hops
* 90g Coriander seed
* Peel of large Orange
* 11.5g Safbrew T58 yeast

Steep grain ...

Thanks Trough.....

I don't have this kind of set-up, so maybe I don't need to worry about it. I'm still a little old-fashioned/unequipped/lazy/poor and so just put my grains in a grain-bag and sit them in a pot whilst I keep the water at constant temp (I have devised an ingenious method using a ...

PS: If you do use that recipe, you will need a good couple hands full of rice hulls ;)

Oh really?! What will that do?

I'm aiming for a spicy Belgian Witbier (you know, the sort with the coriander seed and orange peel)....

Promash has an extract-% value for wheat, so I'll go with that. I did use ...

Hi Kev and all....

I've been playing with this now for several brews now, and I think its all working out nicely.

However in the last brew, and in the one I am about to embark on, I didn't actually 'steep' any grains - I did actually do a true partial mash. And that got me to thinking....

How do ...

OK so I think I get it now... please tell me if I'm getting it right.

I'm ok with the process of making the 6-way starter....

...So when I want to actually make a brew, I have to take one of my stubbies of Yeasty-Beer, make a starter (100g LDME in 1L water) and pour in the said stubby. I then put ...

I'll check out the link in a sec, rwh.... ta!

I know what krausen is - my point is this: wouldn't you need to pitch yeast in order for fermentation to start, thus producing krausen?

So you pitch the yeast after you've pitched the yeast?!?!?! That's sounding a lot like some kind of weird Back To ...

9. Store the stubbies in the back of your refrigerator until you need to use them, then create a starter (go to step 2), and add this to your brew at high krausen, or about 24 hours.

Please can you explain what you mean by "high krausen"? Do you mean that you don't pitch the starter yeast until ...

My amber's bubbling away happily after a stressful first three days.....

My second ever brew was a JS Amber conversion kit from Brewcraft.

I added about 200-250g crystal malt to it, and some extra hops (Goldings, from memory).

Tasted a treat, and was the first brew to be completely drunk before all other batches...

I'm about to put down an extract version of an Amber ...

i recently made a grain + extract brown ale and i used 250g medium crystal and 150g choc. using medium crystal will give u a darker colour then just using pale crystal, that is, if you havent already got pale crystal, then just use that and use a darker ME.

Hey sponge,

Have you posted up your ...

I may have asked this question on another forum Kev...

But what about the amount of fermentables one gets from the steeped grains?

Do we include that into our calculations? If so, how do we know the yield, amount, etc?

I think from memory you (or it may have been Ed) mentioned that you kinda ...

Thanks earle (and rwh and kevnlis and rohanbutler....)

OK..

SO the largest pot I have is a 10L stockpot, so if I go for boiling in 6L, that would mean I need to separately boil the hops with about 26% of my fermentables.

I'm assuming here that fermentables in this case is my grain-wort and my LME ...

Woops, sorry...

OK, well I guess I would be steeping the grains, rinsing them, etc; then boiling that wort for an hour alongside the 2 LME cans.

And if I'm boiling hops for an hour, I guess I would put those ones in too...

Am I on the right track?

Cheers Kev,

In regards to your previous question, I will be boiling for an hour... that should be ok, yeah?

Hey Kevnlis,

Regarding the hops:

How about this?

40g Cascade @ 60mins
10g Goldings @ 10mins

That should give me an IBU of 34 (or thereabouts)..... not too bitter... I am after a malty flavour, moreso than a hoppy flavour....

We opened up one of the bottle of Mead today.

For those who came in late.... this was brewed in April (4+ weeks), and then bottled in early May.

After 7 months, it has lost most of the turps flavour it had 3 months ago, and there is some very minor bubble action, which I'm putting towards the ...

OK, how does this sound?

3kg Amber LME (coopers or morgans)
300g Crystal malt (75L)
45g Cascade hops @ 60mins
20g Cascade hops @ 30mins
15g Cascade hops @ 15mins
10g EK Goldings hops @ 10mins
Wyeast Thames Valley Yeast (1275)

In regards to the flavour:
I want some malty, and a rounded (not over ...

Thanks guys,

I actually put that recipe together using promash.... perhaps I'm not using it properly, or maybe the profiles of the ingredients in the databases are incorrect?

My thought on the crystal also was... whoaahhh! - but like I said I was putting it all together using the software.

I will ...