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Bit confused with some of the comments on the previous page with regards to the amount of extract to be added. Only a couple pounds recommended with a partial boil? I was under the impression that adding all the LME at the beginning of the boil was the way to go (or at least ok?). I have...

It has been brewed! Ingredients were as follows: 9.15 Ibs. Northern Brewer Gold Malt Syrup 4 oz. cascade pellets, Alpha 6.2%, Beta 6.2% 1 oz. centennial pellets, Alpha 9.7%, Beta 6.7% 60 minute boil. started with about 2.7 gallons. All LME was added at beginning of boil. Hop schedule: 1...

I plan on doing a partial boil and adding all the extract in there when it comes to a boil. The same amount of extract was used in NB's Dead Ringer IPA kit I did recently and it worked out fine. I just top off with water to 5 gallons in the fermentor. Thanks for the replies!

Ha, that funny. Had no idea.

So I am about to make an extract brew with the following ingredients: 9.15 #s northern brewer gold malt extract syrup 4 oz cascade pellets and 1 oz centennial hops. This is my first non-kit brew and I kind of just want to go for it and see what happens. Without getting into my hop schedule...

I love this kit, Did 26 days in primary, have had it bottled for 8 days and it has already carbed up nicely. Certainly going to wait and let it be before I really get into it, but wow am I surprised at how delicious it is at this point!

Well hello everyone, I am hooked. It is official. I will be starting my third extract kit soon. Have a northern brewer nut brown ale fermenting at the moment. Next I will be trying the northern brewer dead ringer IPA. My first was a true brew american pale ale that was a decent start I...

My name is B, Just bottled my first batch about a week ago. I went with the True Brew IPA kit to start and we will see how it turns out in a few weeks. I will say that I enjoyed the experience immensely and can see myself becoming consumed with this hoppy. I am trying one of the beers...