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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 Hallertauer @ 60min
Safale US-05 Ale [...]

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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 White Ale Malt
0.50Kg [...]

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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 should be better…

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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 coming [...]

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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 recipe:

2.5Kg [...]

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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 same as the first (as expected, considering i used [...]

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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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After several years of making homebrew beer from a can of goo and a kilo of sugar, i have taken the next step to try and make a tastier (and hopefully not to much more expensive) beer.
I bought enough ingredients for two batches from thebrewshop:

4kg light dry malt extract
2kg dextrose
100g pride of ringwood hops
100g saaz [...]

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