Recent content by Theo24

Hello to all the members. I am going to brew my first Belgian style beer and i have chosen the Dubbel style. Here is a recipe i have planned and i would like to hear your comments and suggestions: Malts Dingemans Pilsen (2.7EBC) / 75.8% (5kg) Aromatic Malt (Dingemans) (50,0 EBC) / 7.6%...

Hi to all! Yesterday i brew an Irish Red Ale. My recipe is here: http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=63885 My mash efficiency went well. I got 23lt of wort @ 1.050 pre boil gravity, so i added 2.5lt water to bring it to 25.5lt of wort. So i had 25.5lt of wort @1.044...

Hi again. After my first AG beer (in fact i never made any kit or extract beer) that was an American Pale Ale, i am about to make my second beer in a few days. An Irish Red. I will show you my recipe and you could give me some recommendations or suggestions if i have planned anything wrong...

Merry Christmas to all of you! :mug: I am planning to make a Belgian Pale Ale beer recipe and something like a clone of the De Koninck PA beer. I have found the clone recipe in the book "Brewing Better Beer" (page203) but i think i had to modify it a bit and use only Belgian Dingemans malt...

That's a really interesting experiment, i will do it, thanks! :tank:

Apologies i didn't mentuon that as soon as the airlock stopped bubbling, i took a gravity reading of about 1.010. Next day i took the same gravity reading and then decided to bottle it. OG was 1.042 so i think that it attuated normally. So i think that there is no danger at all. I brewed an...

I bottled the beer after 1 week because the fermentation was over as no bubbles were coming out. Was that a mistake?

Thanks for the reply. Maybe also i shouldn't have added the yeast prior to bottling? Maybe the remaining yeast on the beer could be sufficient to carbonate it in the bottle?

Hello and Merry Christmass to everyone! 2 weeks ago i made my first AG beer. It was an Americal pale ale style beer. All parts thoroughly sterilised. Primary fermantation took 1 week (1056 Wyeast). Then i transferred the beer to my bottles adding priming sugar (dextrose). My beer is now 1 week...