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The past few batches have consisted of something like. I don;t have the exact measurements near me now but, 2-3kg of LME/DME about 500g of roasted grains the appropriate hops OG: usually 1.040 Final: 1.010 or so 1 hour boil half hour steep 2 yeast packets, generic brewers yeast...

Hey. My buddy and I have brewed roughly 3 batches and are finding it impossible to up our alch content. What can we do without using sugar? More malt? Something to do with the boil? The yeast? Pleassssse <3

Thanks!

Awesome! They're so many different ways of brewing it's slightly over-whelming at this point haha, I wish I could find one concrete way of brewing and go from there. If you have any suggestions or have a specific way of brewing please let me know! :)

Thanks, much appreciated. I have one more question. Is it okay to only boil a portion of the beer and add water to it? I'm looking into making 5 gallons and I don't have a big enough pot, so is it acceptable to boil the wort and add some water to compensate afterwords or will this have a...

Also, yeast strain is a new term to me, could you elaborate? :) As you can see I'm new to this.

Well it's complicated. I may have royally screwed this one. There was no direct recipe. I used a can of Blonde Ale extract, boiled it, added 1000g's of dex sugar and added the yeast after. I feel like many steps were missing in this process. Specifically the adding of any type of hops. :( I made...

I'm on about day 14 of my first batch and decided to give it a little taste after checking the gravity. It was extremely bland and basically tasted like water featuring a slight hint of alch. Are there any ways of adding more flavor at this stage? Or is it to late. I'd love to save my first...

Thank you :)

I apologize. I did not calculate correctly. My reading is 1.085 and should be down to 1.020 in 3-5 days.

the recipe says by day 3-5 I should be around 1.020, but I believe it mentions that I should be dropping to the sg, not rising toward it.

23 lters, blond ale, 1 can of malt extract, 1000gs of sugar, just sprinkled the yeast. I a apologize for the vagueness.

Hey, I just started brewing my first batch and got a reading of roughly 8.5. SHould I bail on it or wait it out? What effect will this have on the beer?

Hey, I'm not sure how to post a main question so I'll post it here. I just began my frist batch of ale today and the sg reading came out around 8.5. Any advice?