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too bitter ? bah humbug.
though when I looked back at notes with morgans or coopers traditional draught it was far more bitter.
it's a bloody nice kit+ recipe champ.
just throw in 3x cascade plugs instead of 1 for dry hopping muhaha.
3 which were noted as really good used a wheat malt can ...

Hey,
That's weird with the caps i always soak em in that peroxide stuff,
and have never had mold?

Cheers

happy f$king new y3ar too ppl,
wishing all the best for 2008
^_^

As a rule I try to match the amount of fermentables in the boil to the amount in the finished batch. As follows:

24L batch of beer with 3 kilos of malt, if I am doing an 8L boil then I will add 1 kilo of malt to the boil. This makes it easier to calculate IBUs and adapt recipes etc because the ...

Yeah froth it right up......

More advanced people use oxygen cylinders, aquarium style
stones, etc.

about ~2 years ago i did a couple of the coopers cerveza.
I found also that the bubbles were large / gassy etc.
1st with brew enhancer 2 as coopers say,
and 2nd with mostly malt + dex + hersbrucker hops.
Imo this beer don't need any extra body for the style.

My .xls notes say it was nice but ...

Interesting Idea with the raisins.

I am led to believe that some of the yeast in
ye old schoole ginger beer comes off the raisins. ?

Here we're running late with a xmas brew as well.
was hoping to try one of those 9% Belgians but....

sounds nice anyways mate.

little creatures diluted with 1/2 soda water ?
hehe

I don't understand how fridging can present a direct contact exposure
to the water ?
It would seem hard for bacteria to permeate the plastic. ?
unless your not using properly sealed water container(s) in the fridge.

Of course their may be pathogens on the outside of the container and
you could ...

Dan Murphys have the pale ale stubbies on special atm for ~ $40

but the buggers still wanna charge me $43 for tallies.

It's a disgrace the price of beer under this dictatorship,
heaps of imports come in for less then $40,
Lowenbrau, Peroni - et aliae.

Course, the uneducated are probably happy ...

bargain

I'm a spammer!
Seriously I hate the f)(*^kers I am a web developer and nothing
shits me more,
we should do more then have a report of the offenders

I wonder whether just racking alone would be enough to
rouse the yeast still there a bit ?
just remembering reading something from a brewery about that. ?

wouldn't champagne yeast impart a dry kinda finish ?

cheers
newbie

hehe gratz and well done on your first brew mate.

I don't mean to dampen the event, just trying to help.

First I'd never trust reused caps even through a capper.
Get a capper if you wish or use the Grolsch,
I find capping a rather satisfying part of the process.

Seems no one mentioned ...

It's all good old school Mid.

bolwell wrote:If your trying to give up cigarettes it can help with the cravings or it can remind you what yor missing.

Classic quote bolwell,
I find if I drink the belgian 8.5% ++ beers I forget where I hid them....

Hey,
Good Post Trough Lolly.
That sounds like a fair bit of hops for a kit mod.

Something to keep in mind though - is the gravity of the boiling solution,
when calculating hop utilization.
The efficiency goes way down if you are only boiling say 1/2 the total water with all the extract(s ...

Lol the xxxx already tastes like recycled sewerage


seriously though some of the beers we brew last for ?
1-2 years a bit more water is not a sin even in brisvegas.


cheers
sunshine coast waterBringer

Congratulations on your great new site mate.

As a web / application developer I understand the work behind such things.

as and aside I am on the Sunshine Coast if I am coming down to brissy

Should I pickup stuff I wanna buy or...


Cheers

Hey, and Welcome to Brewing and the Forum. :!:

Temperature: that's hot ambient temp where abouts are you ? .

Regarding lager - Are you sure it was a Real lager yeast in your kit ?
refer to discussions here regarding coopers kit yeast etc etc .
coopers kit yeast
Most Coopers or Morgans kits that ...