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I have a pot that can do a partial boil, its around 12-13 litres and I am planning on getting a much bigger pot, around 17 litres. This is due to the fact that I want to do small batches of some IIPA and DIPA that are much higher in alcohol as you would normally expect. This would be my...

The coopers kits are great and you know what, the brew enhancer 2 is a good cheap way to get your fermentables up. I wouldn't hold back on adding some DME at all to boost the ABV if your looking for a bit extra and steeping grains is going to give you that lovely fresh beer taste. Your hops...

This is exactly the thread I need. I have a 10 litre pot I use for boiling hops, topping up with about 12 litres after the boil. I imagine I am also watering down my hoppy wort but you should be able to double the hops the recipe calls for and hoppy get something better, right?

Yo! So, have started working more with speciality grains and adding hops to Coopers kits to boost flavor and get something that I want to drink. My latest brew is this: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/son-wesley-snipes-smoked-out-357678/ Please check it out. Anywho, I feel I'm ready to...

So here is my recipe that I laid down. I need to gauge whether I decrease my dry hops on this beer. I was aiming to create a unique black beer, with a hint of smoke, some coffee, chocolate and then a smashing of citrus and fruit hops. Its called Son of Wesley Snipes: Smoked Out, because my...

My beer recently got stuck. Started at 1.052, stopped at 1.030. Air lock still bubbling because of the CO2 coming out of the liquid. I swirled, did nothing. I stirred today and pitched the yeast that came with my coopers real ale. That should finish it off. The yeast i 1st pitched was a...

Thank you. I'm looking forward to tasting it. Hopefully it came out as planned.

This sounds about right. So I should try and achieve the SG with the water I am using to boil with for the hops? All the fermentables I have purchased from my LHBS are no-boil kits. I just heat it up so I can pour it out. I have always done this and never had a bad beer.

I don't have a pot big enough to boil everything. Basically, all the fermentables go in to the fermenter, then I tip in my 3 litres of water that I had steeped the malt in and boiled the hops. I then add a little more boiling water and stir for a while. That means all the fermentables are...

Hi fellow home brewers. I did a 60 min boil yesterday. Heres how it went down. I steeped 500g of Crystal Malt for 30 mins at 150 f in about 3-4 litres of water. After this, I had this boil schedule using zythos: 20grams 60mins 40grams 30mins 20grams 15mins Once this cooled I added...

Hey guys. Here is my recipe i came up with. Any suggestions or changes i should make before i buy the products? I also need some advice on a yeast. I will be boiling the hops with about 2 litres of water and 250grams of the DME...

In my one time experience with a Toucan and my mate doing the same thing, we found that when using 2 hopped extracts as you do with Toucans, the longer you leave it in a bottle (if your doing bottle conditioning), the better. The earlier we drank it, the more rubbish it tasted. You can, and...

Where you say 5 min aroma steep, that is, boil is turned off, let the hops sit in it for 5 mins? The other hops would have been taken out when the boil is over and the steep begins? And with the dry hopping, would using a hop tea bag hurt the flavor? I will be using 500grams of DME in my next...

Hi guys. I'm interested in getting a super hoppy IPA in the style of NZ's 8 Wired 'Hopwired' and Epics 'Armageddon IPA'. I don't have a huge pot to boil in and traditionally I simply add the kit malt extract and fementables into my fermentor and swirl it around with the 2 litres of water...

Yes, silly mistake me not mentioning where I am. Its been fermenting for about 2 hours. I'll probably leave it I think. I don't like dextrose.

A bit of both. I went to a beer festival recently and had some amazing Hoppy Beers around the 7% mark. Couldn't taste the alcohol but was nice to have a good strong beer. However, if adding more sugar destroys the quality of the beer, which I know would if I was just adding dextrose only to...

I just started a Coopers Sparkling Ale. The OG was 1054. If FG is 1012 it would be about 5.8 ish. I boiled 50grams of Cascades for 10 mins and added to wort to give it some hoppy goodness and want to boost the ABV up to around 7%. Whens a good time to add some more dextrose? My recipe in...

I have tried a little bit out of the fermenter and man its got some nice citrus aroma going on. There is a bit of the hop particles floating around. When I bottle this will it all settle at the bottom ok?

So I threw in the Hops after 4 days, it started bubbling again in the airlock. It has died down good. Now, there is a green layer of hop particles floating at the top. I have swirled the fermenter as recommended for the last 3 days and they disappear but then reappear. So I imagine these...

Hahaha!! Yeah I will try to brew a high level alcohol beer at some stage. Just throw in some extra malt.