Recent content by mildewman

Turned out the cork sniffer snobs who described my self created brews as "bad beer" and "not real beer" were wrong. All they needed was 4-6 weeks in the shed maturing - they taste good now.

Thanks for the replies all - im gonna stick to around 6% from now on. Im fermenting at 20-22 centigrade, should that be low enough to avoid fusels?

Yes ive given up on brewing high ABV, currently fermenting 1.7kg kit extract, 1kg DME, 1kg dex, 78% conversion yeast. Should be 6% once carbed.

I made a batch of 10% ABV thats just too strong to drink. Could i brew a 2% batch (just the extract pack), mix 50/50 in the bottles with the 10% batch, then re carbonate? If im using 2L bottles, would i add sugar for 2L, 1L, or somewhere inbetween? (the 10% batch is allready carbed)

Spirits just arent ergonomic for me. If i use a mixer i get way drunk too fast, and neat sipping quality costs too much. Anyway ive got the brewing mania now - really enjoying brewing beer, and ill improve with practice.

Ow my ed! - last night i opened the first bottle made with the recipe in OP (about 8%), and it tastes like beer, looks like beer, correct carbonation, but just too strong. Had one glass, head was buzzing, managed 2/3 of another glass, was drunk and woke up with a hangover. Batch 3 is 10%, not...

Now that ive had a few sessions on my first batch (MJ pale ale + 500gm cane sugar) im starting to wonder if i need to brew 8-10% beer at all. Just spent 3 hours drinking in the sun, if it was any stronger i would be plotzed. Batches 2 and 3 were both high abv (still maturing in shed), for...

Just to clarify, my weekly intake of booze is normally 2-3 bottles of red wine - im not a severe drinker. Just trying to keep expenditure as low as possible. And so far im quite enjoying learning about brewing beer. Reminds me of when i learned to grow pot, but legal :) I like the happy...

Price vs abv - im poor, trying to keep my booze bill as low as possible. I normally drink red wine, but thats too hard to make yourself, also drink RTD's , (alchopops), so im trying to brew beer thats 8 - 10 %

I made the brew up with the ingredients listed, heres how it went... It turns out that safbrew-s33 was totally the wrong yeast for a high strength beer, its a flavor yeast not a high abv yeast - next brew im using mangrove jacks tripel (88% attenuation) When i mixed in the DME the water...

Hi all, my first post here. I have made one batch of standard pale ale, now i would like to try making a batch of high abv beer. Im planning to use... 1 x Mangrove Jacks pale ale pack (1.8kg) 1kg LDME 1kg brew enhancer 1kg dextrose Yeast from the pale ale pack + sachet of Safbrew s-33...