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I brewed this extract beer and loved it: John Bull IPA. 23L - 11/10/15 - 31/10/15 Re-pitched Gervin Yeast (Wilko) + 1tsp YN 1kg Youngs Beer Enhancer + 120g honey 25g Perle Hops + 5g Aurora - 20m boil, tea and bag added to FV OG:1061 - FG:1009 - 7%

Just a suggestion but maybe cut your boil short as suggested, don't do any late hop additions and then then heavily dry hop with what hops you have left. It's the only thing I can think of to counter the bitterness of the large early hop addition.

A John Bull traditional ale, about 6.5% and I added 30g of Saaz boiled for 20mins, tea and hop bag added to the fermentor for a 3week ferment and it's going down a treat.

No problem Qhrumphf football is football and funnily enough when I'm sitting in my back garden on an August or September afternoon enjoying a bottle or two I can actually hear the Spurs ground when you score. I don't know what I did in a past life but I must have enjoyed myself. Football out of...

Qhrumphf I do greatly appreciate the welcome but I really must insist that....

3 weeks, I dry hop at day 15 or 16.

Good afternoon all, my name's Larry Fitzgerald and I live In north London, I've been brewing for just over a year now. My wife bought me a beer brewing kit for Christmas 2015, a decision I'm sure she's regretted more than once. I've been doing 23L kits that I've been adding hop teas to along...