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Thanks for the straightforward commonsense explanation ! ahhh been searching for an hour for this. Cheers !

i used to let mine dry for a little while but bottled when there was still some starsan bubbles inside and they always turned out just fine!, my advise is forget bottling beer altogether and get a few cheap corny kegs, once you keg you wont regret it and will kick yourself you wasted so much...

When i said boiling taste test ok, i meant taste test after boiling my steeped grain juice and malt, the taste test after boiling with scaled hop additions before chilling with immersion chiller was bitter chemical and bad!, i taste tested again after chilling with the immersion chiller and...

Hi, ok so i did i mock up 1.5 gallon brew, exact procedure with tasting along the way, grains ok, steeping ok boiling ok, i think ive figured it out with the help of a pro brewer who runs a craftbrewing shop, IBU's ! extreme bitterness! He calculated im up over 80 IBU's and for a lager he said i...

well i did a few taste tests on my last batch which was just a basic full boil using 1 kg dme, various hop additions and a can of muntons lager late addition, before i chilled and after i chilled with the copper chiller and the taste was not present. So its either my copper chiller ( before its...

Thanks again for the replies, yeast starter is possibly a cause, yet the yeast starter i made and pitched into a fresh wort kit produced a brew that was amazing and i washed that yeast and pitched it into my own brew and that bizzare taste is definatly still there so its a mystery, all the can...

Thanks for the quick replies, ok so i have a .5 micron carbon filter for my town water so chlorine is not the issue, for cleaning ive been using morgans low suds brewing detergent and then sanitising with starsan, there is no mould or indication of an infection. The copper wort chiller is a...

Hi, ive recently started doing full boil extract recipes with steeping grains and the taste is absolutly disgusting, its a bitter chemical poison like taste, not infected but just really chemical! I use starsan and sanitise correctly. I have no idea what ive done wrong. I would really...

Im Drinking a craft beer made in Sydney called Murray's Angry Man Pale Ale. It claims a spicy/citrusy aroma and flavour from NZ Motueka and Pacifica hops. Ive never heard of pacifica prior to this but what i can tell you is that it would rate as one of the best craft brewed pale ales ive ever...

Hey Guys i just had to share this recipe, i truly believe its a genuine clone that tastes absolutly fantastic! enjoy. 1 Can Coopers International series Pale Ale 1.5kg can Coopers light malt extract 250g Wheat spraymalt 25g Galaxy + 25g Cascade pellets Boiled 10min + 5g Galaxy at flameout...

Thanks guys, i keep forgetting patience is a virtue in home brewing. Whithin 24 hrs a thick krausen formed on top and the brew started bubbling like mad, i just dry hopped 30g of galaxy with a little luck i might have something that tastes within reach of a LCPA ?

Forgive my inexperience but i did my first ale today and pitched the Safale US-05 yeast straight in seems to have all settled to a half inch of white sludge on the bottom of the fermenter, same as all the lagers and pilseners ive done using S23 and W34/70. I was under the impression this was a...

Im looking for an extract recipe similar to a little creatures pale ale, has anyone tried a clone recipe ? Cheers

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since ive reacked the brew its actually started to bubble again after 24hr very slowly but bubbling all the same. Figured id leave it in the secondary for 2 weeks to clear possibly might get a few points lower if it keep on chuggin ! Temp is fairly constant at 60F so although this is not...