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Recipe: 4.3Kg Traditional Pale Ale Malt 0.45Kg Brown Malt 0.3Kg Crystal Malt 0.25Kg Chocolate Malt 35g Fuggles @ 60min 25g Fuggles @ 0min (Cube Addition) Wyeast 1084 (Irish Ale) 3rd May, 2010 Hitting my numbers seems impossible. Boil was slightly less powerful due to the colder weather. This left me with more wort in to [...]

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Simple. Thats the plan with this brew. Recipe (courtesy of paddo): 6Kg Traditional Pale Ale Malt 30g Cascade @ 45min 15g Cascade @ 10min Safale US-05 Ale Yeast 15th January, 2010 Put this brew down. Slightly longer mashout and a bit of patience seemed to raise the efficiency on this one by quite a lot. [...]

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I am almost certain that the lessons i have learnt while doing BIAB are down to me being extremely lazy and trying to cut too many corners as well as trying to do things as cheap as possible. After losing three or four batches and cutting fewer corners each brew, i am almost at the [...]

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14th November, 2009 This time around i was going to brew a wheat beer. With no idea what recipe, i decided to brew one from the book “Brewing Classic Styles”. Obviously, from the title of the post you can tell i chose the recipe “Harold is Weizen”. Recipe: 2.5Kg Pilsner Malt 2.5Kg Wheat Malt 23g [...]

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7th November, 2009 Time for the second Brew In A Bag – All Grain brew attempt. The recipe this time around is very similar to the previous attempt, which was meant to be a James Squire Golden Ale clone. This beer has almost the same recipe, just lacking a few specialty grains. Recipe: 4.35Kg Joe [...]

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The first attempt at brewing was basically a disaster. Without going in to detail about recipe etc, here are the lessons learnt: Use a thermometer! It is necessary Be patient 70 degrees Celsius is hotter than it sounds! I’m sure there is more, but i brewed this so long ago i forget now. Number two [...]

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This was exactly the same as number 03, an English ordinary bitter. I thik this one came out a little better, the temp was alot more stable, it sat around 20C for the whole fermentation. The tasting and carb of the first attemp at this style was very promising. Quite a bit of butterscotch flavor [...]

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Finally got around to brewing again. Changin things up this time, after consuming a fair few of the previous 2 extract brews ive made, i have not been that impressed with the dry extract. So for the sake of making a few comparisons this time around i am using all liquid extract. So, to the [...]

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Ok, now, second time around with my attempt of brewing an all extract beer. Same recipe as the first, only difference is the hop amounts and timings. Recipe 2kg ldme 1kg dextrose 06g POR @ 60min 12g POR @ 45min 10g Saaz @ 15min) 10g Saaz @ 05min) US05 yeast The Orginal Gravity was the [...]

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After two weeks in the bottle, yes i know its still “green”, but what the hell, i have to taste it. I could see in the bottle this was going to be a cloudy beer, most other beers ive made have settled by two weeks and are almost clear, not sure what to put that [...]

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