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Hi, I couldn't find a previous thread on this, but I'm just wondering what the ideal conditions for storing full bottles of brew are?



The reason I ask is my wife is less than happy that I've decided to store my bottled beer in the spare bedroom. I'm doing this because the temperatures in my ...

I guess that would reduce the bitterness though, hmm I may reduce the bittering hops a smidge and increase the flavour hops. Thanks!

That makes it approx 4.32% alcohol.
I put some ice and water in the bath and let it cool over about an hour, maybe a bit longer. It takes longer than I thought!
I think I'll have to look into a copper coil system, they're the only two options right?

Alrighty, thanks crookedfingers for all your advice. I've just had a bit of a look at brewmate, punched in some numbers and came up with this recipe.....

Pale liquid malt extract 3kg
Crystal Grain - 250gm.

Amarillo hops 25g at 60min
Cascade 20g at 20min
Cascade 15g at 0min

US-05 yeast for a 22L ...

Also, what's the most appropraite crystal for a pale ale recipe?

Thanks! I downloaded brewmate last night and it looks pretty good. For my last brew the ibu was up there, I've just decided to call it an IPA, problem solved!

With the hops you mentioned, do they all work quite well together? If I decided to use three different hops for the bitterness, flavour and ...

Hi, I'm looking at making a fairly light yet very hoppy pale ale as my next brew.

I'd like mild to medium bitterness, but I want a strong pleasant hop flavour and aroma.

Can anyone suggest the type of hops that would potenially fit the bill?

Thanks in advance!

Thanks all, I'll report back after three weeks of bottling.

Yep, an 11L boil with 1.5kg malt, and I added the remaining 1.5kg at the end of the boil. So 3kg of malt all up. Bugger. Is adding more water a really bad idea? Its on its third day of fermenting. Is it likely to mellow during fermentation and bottling?

I used briess amber extract, and light pilsen extract. I booked about 11L and put in approximately half the malt, so about 750gm of each extract.

Sorry for the spelling, I'm on a phone and am obviously not proof reading.

Hey, thanks for the replies. It is a 22L batch, I generally quite like very bitter ales, sone if the American IPA's cone to mind. This certainly was on a different level. Assuming an IBU of 65-70, how does that rank, bloody bitter?

Apologies, I accidentally swore in my initial post, it was meant to read "a shot".

Hi, I've just made my first extract brew, and I thought all was going well, however I decided to have a taste of the beer right after transferring from the pot and pitching the rehydrated yeast.

The taste was not good. At all. It was horrible.

Basically, will this be representative of the ...