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Awesome thank you for that Its interesting you mentioned that as I was going to be making a Muntons Irish Stout for my brother over the weekend and as I'm not much of a stout drinker I will definitely have to do that.

I recently started Mangrove Jacks Chocolate Ale craft beer kit. Just tried 2 yesterday and HOLY COW!!! Delicious, not much of a chocolate flavour, its more nutty, I would place it almost at a hazelnut. But I highly recommend that kit. It comes with Empire M15 Ale yeast and I used 2 LBS of Amber...

And thank you for confirming about different yeasts responding differently come the carbonation process.

Typically it would be the primary for 2 weeks. then a secondary carboy for 2 weeks before bottling.

But would there be a reason why aging these batches of beer compared to my other batches turned out with significantly different results with all the other processing the same other then the yeast and the kits?

So I currently have 2 batches currently bottle conditioning and they have been for about 2 and a half weeks at around 70F. Of which I used 1cup of dextrose for priming with just enough hot water to dissolve it all and when bottling would give my beer a stir every 6-8 bottles as I do with all my...

Thank you both for that information. I will definitely have to keep that link on hand going forward.

May I ask why you mention "making sure it wasn't a refractometer" I use a refractometer that is intended for beer use and that according to the instructions is perfectly calibrated. Yet I still question my gravities as from what its reading I'm making 2.5-3.5% beer but it gets me pretty hammered...

For the Coopers real ale kit I believe I just used the supplied yeast (didnt keep the best records when I started that batch), but I started going to abit better HBS and getting better yeasts depending on the beer type. I found the 7g packet did the job but could of been better. I believe I did...

I only brew the pre-hopped kits due to mainly time restraints and currently have 6 batches in the works, I recently did a Coopers Real Ale with 2 LBS of sparkling Amber DME and about a cup of Dextrose just to bring the OG up to about 1.042. I let this one age longer then any of the other ones I...

I also do Mangrove Jacks but most the time I do Coopers or Muntons just because its a little cheaper and I don't got to go all the way across the city.

Yeah I know I should, its just a matter of getting DME in 1 LB bags not wanting to spend the extra for 1 LB when I only use a cup or 2. meanwhile I already have a bag of dextrose that I primarily use as priming sugar when bottling.

Hello all and thanks in advance for any advice you can contribute I've been brewing for about a year and a half now and am always slightly disappointed with the mouth feel my brews produce. For awhile I was making blondes but have switched up to doing more ales. Does anyone have any advise on...

I was thinking of doing the same thing actually. And I haven't used lactose before but a good friend of mine has when he made a cream ale, it gave it very good body, and great head retention. Let me know if you have since done the double Irish stout with lactose and how it turned out Cheers!

I have been brewing extract kits for about a year and a half now, for the longest time I used dextrose only and have recently started spending the little extra to switch to DME. I want to switch to all grain when I eventually get my own place and have more room to work on it. IMO I think the...