rahne wrote:i read on another site that home brand brew kits turn out quite nice even better than more expensive kits so challenge is the cheapest brew and then when they are ready tell us how you did
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How about an all grain entry in the "McScrooge Cup"!
4kg of Maris Otter = $7
250g of Light Crystal = $0.50
50g of PoR from the back yard = $0
400ml Yeast starter from 6th generation Wyeast 1056 purchased back in 2004 = $0.10
Bugger me TL,
That is cheap for an AG, most of my recipes cost easily over $30; Grains around $20, hops another $5-7, yeast which I do reuse but still another couple of bucks and other ancilliaries such as koppafloc, yeast nutrient, polyclar, cleaning products and don't forget the gas.
Having said all that if I were in the hobby to produce beer as cheap as chip I wouldn't be making AG beers; I make beer for the enjoyment and also for the great flavour and aroma you just don't get (well very often) in commercial beers.
Sorry rambling off topic.
Cheers
AC
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You weren't rambling AC - I agree with everything you wrote, but if I can make the all grain brews for cheap, that'll do me!
The co-op makes the grains cheap, so I grow my own Goldings, Chinook and PoR plants - yeast harvesting is the other big saver. I buy top notch yeast, but make it last...
Just be careful with the bitterness, might want to add more malt if you are using 2 cans in a single batch (unles like me you like them bitter as). Otherwise sounds like a damn fine brew for the money!
i just wish i knew what was in these cans '100% hoped malt extract'
anyone know the ibu of these cans? i assume its light malt also but i have no clue... would you recommend less fuggles rather then more malt? looking like a 6%er give or take as it is in a 19lt batch...
i just wish i knew what was in these cans '100% hoped malt extract'
anyone know the ibu of these cans? i assume its light malt also but i have no clue... would you recommend less fuggles rather then more malt? looking like a 6%er give or take as it is in a 19lt batch...
I doubt they even know the IBUs
It is probably fair to assume there was little bittering hops used and no aroma hops used in a cheap kit like that, but no way to be sure. Just making sure you realise you will be doubling the bitterness by adding 2 cans, and even higher than that if only making 19L!
I would go all the way to 23 and add a kilo of malt extract, plus some dry hops at the end of primary.
I have used two home brand draught cans in one brew with 500gm LME. it was made to 20L.
Definitely not overly bitter with a few months age. I dry-hopped about 20gm Saaz into secondary, and just racked into tertiary to get the beer off the hops - the hop flavour was starting to get a little grassy.
it's come out at about 6.2%. Give it a month or so and i'll keg it and enjoy it very much
Homebrand from Woollies is my pic of the cheepies, just don't use their yeast. The other generics aren't too bad, but they're way down on hops and seem a bit light on malt too.
I've brewed all the major generics: Home Brand (Woollies); Farmland (Coles) and No Frills (Franklins). For me they make a cheaper way to try recipe experiments without blowing the cost of using a quality kit. If it works, I'll then try it in a better base kit or malt extract & extras.
Regan: Good buy on the kits! Wish I could find tins at $2.88 each: I'd buy the lot!!
