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I had good success with the coopers kits and also brewcraft stuff but the spicy ghost was just not there at all. The cascade porter turned out great after following wassa's honey porter recipe. For my last few brews I started adding some steeped grains, fresh hops, dry malt and safale yeasts and ...

Did you use the supplied yeast? I think I had the same when I brewed that can up too, and also read other people had the same. TO be honest I wasn't impressed with the brew even after a year, tipped 15 bottles of it last week. Hopefully yours comes out ok for you!

I did the Hightail version with goldings hops and just the kit yeast. Turned out fantastic, loved it early on as there was a nice caramel toffee flavour going on. After 3 weeks it seemed to lose that flavour though, still a lovely drop though, one of my better ones.

Cheers

I was talking about a correct measure teaspoon not one out the cutlery drawer! Think the measure is just under 5gm. If I'm priming an ale I tend to throttle back a tad as Warra mentioned.

I use a teaspoon of either in my 750ml's. Carbs up nice in most brews after 2-4 weeks.

Brewing a copy of Beamish Stout, kit based with steeped grains as per this recipe:

http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/vi ... =11&t=9058

Smelling good so far!

Hi Guy's,

Am thinking of giving the following recipe a crack over the weekend. It's from the Brewcraft International Classics pdf.

1 can of Premium Imported Irish Stout
170g Choc grain
200g Roasted Barley
500g Dry Wheat Malt
500g Dark Dried Malt
15g Goldings at 5 mins
SAF-04
18L in total.

It's ...

Well it's only been in the bottle for 2 weeks but the bottles had firmed up and couldn't resist trying to see what it was like.

Timmy, thanks heaps for the recommendation, this beer is freakin superb!!! Can not believe how good it tastes and at such an early age. I'd say it's a huge improvement on ...

Currently in the process of making a Hogoblin clone:

1 Can Coopers Draught
1KG LDME
150g Dextrose
100g Crystal steeped
50g Chocolate malt steeped
20g Fuggles for 30 mins
10g Goldings for 5 mins
5-10g Goldings dry hopped, chucked in with the yeast.
S-04 yeast
22L in total.

Thanks Wassa. I used Dark Dry Malt in the recipe. Bottled it last night and it was dark brown as you described, I always thought porter was black like stout so learnt something there. How much sugar do you prime your bottles with? I made 29 bottles, first 15 were a full prime (1 teaspoon) and the ...

Guy's, what colour is your beer coming out at?! Just took a reading and it is down to 1016 after 2 weeks, think it's done. Was quite surprised to see it come out brownish in colour rather than darker black. I thought porter was getting close to a stout? Anyway I also have a faint aroma of banana, is ...

Cheers Wassa, I went with a Manuka honey in the end, just added it at the end of my mini boil. It's been in the fermenter for over a week now and looks almost done, will be bottling it up at the weekend. Will let you know how the first tasting goes!

Hi Alex,

I'm just supping on a glass of Munich Lager right now! This has been in the bottle for just 5 weeks and I have noticed a huge step up in flavour in the last 2 weeks. Here is the fairly basic recipe if your interested, nothing too fancy, it was only brew #7

1 * Can of Brewcraft Munich ...

Excellent stuff, cheers Tim.

I couldn't see in the thread which yeast you went for in the end, was it just the coopers kit one?

Now I just have to be brave enough to give that crystal stuff a go, another level up in the never ending home brew difficulty scale!

Cheers

Yeah,sounds good to me mate. My brews usually bubble nicely for 3-5 days then slow down to bubbles every minute or even less after that. I tend to leave it for 2 weeks and take my hydrometer readings at that point to confirm it's done.

ok, so once Wassa's Honey Porter has completed fermenting I'll be onto brew number 10! I've mainly been doing kit+kilo type brews so far but substituting in enhancers rather than using dex. The last 2 brew have seen me use LME and DME for the first time and I think I will carry on down this road due ...

When you pitch on to an existing yeast cake do you have to do anything special with the cleansing? Usually once I finish bottling a brew there is a ring of scum around the top of the fermenter where the krausen was, is it ok to leave that or does it have to be cleaned? If so don't you risk cleaning ...

Just put down Wassa's Honey Porter recipe down this arvo, what an awesome smell the DDM gives off when boiling, yum!

1 can Choc Mahogany Porter
1KG DDM
500g of honey
Cascade hops - 15 min boil and a 5 min boil. Had to use the finishing hops as no pellets, hopefully I will still get them coming ...

I'm going to be giving this one a go once I have bottled my super stout that is almost done.

Just one question about the honey, haven't seen Yellow box honey in the shops here, is it just a runny style? We do get an big selection of honey's, thinking of trying a manuka honey, tends to be quite ...

Not sure if you ozzie guys get the Monteiths range over there but the Celtic is an awesome beer. I found this link on their website:

http://www.monteiths.com/nz/siteFiles/showroom/celtic.html

Is anyone able to recommend what I would need to do a reasonable take on this?

I'm not experienced enough ...