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I agree with Oliver, generally it will be a bit darker and so will not "look" like the beer you're trying to brew but will taste absolutely fine. I've brewed them years out of date, making sure I NEVER use the yeast (which I never use in any case). No problems at all, done it many many times. As per ...

In relation to your "psssst" analogy, I have found that the size of the "psssst" on opening sometimes is not proportionate to the level of carbonation in the beer. Some big "psssst"'s can be quite flat when poured into a glass and vice versa.

Anyway, back to a real question with carbonation.
I did ...

Sorry to take the post back to previous pages......
Tim quoted (page 3)
Now since I could only get the hops in 25g packets, I was going to use 12.5g of each instead of the amounts in Boonies recipe, so I have enough to use to do the brew again in a few weeks time. Giving me a recipe as follows ...

Sorry to take the post back to previous pages......
Tim quoted (page 3)
Now since I could only get the hops in 25g packets, I was going to use 12.5g of each instead of the amounts in Boonies recipe, so I have enough to use to do the brew again in a few weeks time. Giving me a recipe as follows ...

Reporting back:
After a few weeks in the bottle, the butterscotch taste completely disappeared.

Butterscotch... Yeah it was pretty butterscotchy. The only thing more butterscotchy is a butterscotch lolly.

List of things on earth that taste most like butterscotch:

1. A butterscotch lolly.
2. The beer I made the other day.
3. Imitation butterscotch flavouring.
4. Butterscotch schnapps
5 ...

Cheers Kev, thanks for that.
Yes it was very clear when bottling.
Will report progress on tasting.

Hey chaps,
Just bottled this one,

Munton's Premium Blonde tin
Liquid Amber Malt Extract 1.5 kg tin
Cluster Hops 14g teabag.
Safale S04.

OG 1036
FG 1011

3 weeks in fermenter at 20deg.

I tasted the hydrometer sample, BUTTERSCOTCH!!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :(
I noticed that the sample had ...

Out of date cans, I just inherited 12 or so different ones about 2yrs out of date, I have started 2 of them, about to bottle, I will re-post here to let you know how it went.

In my single brick tin roof shed in Geelong, the temperature varies inside the shed by quite a few degrees, due to the ...

Coldstream Brewery, Maroondah Hwy, Coldstream, Victoria.
(near lilydale)

Just went on a brewery tour this weekend, after a quick look at the stainless steel, we had a taste of the new "Coldstream Bitter".
A fantastic creamy english bitter, light in color, a dazzler of a Micro-Brew.

I highly ...

The Bended Elbow in Geelong is a great pub for varied beers.
Hence my interest in "grimbergen" which is a cracking drop, although at 9% you can't have too many.

Ok chaps, I must now make a few points after tasting what I believe to be something made by a higher power than me. It has only been in the bottle for 10 days, but tastes like christmas.

I did not rack the brew. It was bottled after 2 weeks in the fermenter at approx 20deg.

1. Trough Lolly's mash ...

both yeast starters I've done have been using 1 stubby.
1 CSA and 1 CPA.

500ml boiled water, 1tablespoon LDME, 2 tablespoons Dex, 1x stubby dregs.

After she's raging away after 3-4 days, make the brew and throw it in.

They've both worked very well.
I got a few hours lag, but both worked great!!!

sorry TL, I didn't explain that very well, those gravity readings were what I measured!!
That WAS the FG! (oops? good/bad/ugly?)

I have no idea what this means as I don't have beer software.

Am just reading articles about mash efficiency calculation now.

Ok,
Final Updated Recipe:

Mash: (using TL's mash in the kitchen technique)
1kg Pilsener Malt
400g Flaked Barley
250g Crystal
200g Flaked Wheat (I'm using puffed wheat)
100g Flaked Oats

Boil:
2.5kg LME

25g Northern Brewer 60 mins
25g Northern Brewer 20 mins
25g Cascade 2 mins

23L final volume ...

Safeway on Carlisle Street Balaclava/St Kilda.

8x cans of Coopers Canadian Blonde left.
"Reduced stock" display at service desk.
Use By 2009.

$7.87 each.

I just scored 12 or so cans from an ex-brewer of out of date 2006/2007 Coopers, Cascade, a few Brigalow Ginger Beers and Cider, Blackrock Whispering Wheat, Cider as well. Can't remember them all. Am looking forward to throwing a few quaffers together with new yeasts.

Q. Is the yeast for the ciders ...

At the LHBS I saw this one and thought I'd give it a go.

JSAA:
Munton's Premium Blonde tin
Liquid Amber Malt Extract 1.5 kg tin
Cluster Hops 12 gr 15 minutes.
Cluster Hops 12 gr flameout.
Safale S04.

I put it on this morning, but due to the HBS not having cluster pellets, he told me to use a 14gr ...

Ok, now my only problem is that now I have a partial mash out of the way, I want to make them all partials!!!
I fear that I may have now crossed over to the dark side. :twisted:

To do this would I just replace a kg of LME with 1.33kg malt grain?

(I'm using the ratio as follows, do you think this ...

Some of my brews foam when they contact the priming sugar when filling, some don't. Hasn't really bothered me either way. Haven't noticed any difference in the beers.