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I thought I mixed it all pretty thoroughly, but of course I'm not a practised hand at this sort of thing. There was definitely a full lb of LME added, the tin was a lot bigger so enough not to loose any to the sides. The LME and all the grains were measured to the gram, using a small digital...

You see that's what I don't think I'm quite getting. I worked it out to be 1.040 for a 1 gallon batch. When you make a 5gal batch you only boil 3 in the wort and then top it up in the fermenter don't you? The recipe has 40 gravity points (using the ppg) and a lot of water boiled off in the wort...

Mines 'Drunken Dwarf Brewery'. As I'm 5'1", stocky built and bearded, and love fantasy dwarves. Also the theme for my brew names too, I'm working on a mead called 'Copperhead Gold' atm, a reference to the dwarf mines in the Copperhead mountains from Pratchett's Discworld series.

A less profesional, production type label than there seem to many many amazing examples of here, but this is mine design and applied. Would appreciate comments :)

Hey all. I'm a beginner so not quite sure which part I'm not quite understanding, so I'll waffle a little about the whole thing. I've had a go at the extract kits and while all went fine, it was just an hour of sterilizing to tip 2 cans into a bucket. Quite boring and at the end, not really...

Here's the ones Im using for variations on my ale. One oaked and one spiced with christmassy flavours :) ... btw, Im 5'1", stocky, long haired and bearded, hence it's Dwarven Ale ;)