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Another Apia update. Gravity down to 1.012 Getting clearer slowly. Going to sit for a few more days then cold crash at 4oC for a few days Then bottle at room temp. Tastes very citrusy and spicy. Posdibly tone down on the Amarillo next time to let the cites through a bit more. Still for a...

I didn't list my boil additions. I added summit pellets at 60m to achieve a ibu in the high 50s All the hops listed there are added at flameout all together and steeped for one hour. It's the quantities of each for a balanced final product I'm interested in. I'm no longer doing late boil...

Wow. Great reply thank you! I'm using us05 and ferment at 18oC for 7 days.

Hiya. Looks like a good recipe to me, gonna be yummy with the citra additions in there. I would consider swapping out 8oz wheat dme and replacing with 8oz cane or corn sugar, as this will help the gravity get down another couple of points and help the dry extract ferment out more fully. Just...

Hey fellow hb just wanted to see if any of you peeps have been able to juggle multiple hop flavours to create a balanced hop profile. Eg. I brewed an AIPA at 7% with pellets. 25g cascade 25g citra 25g Amarillo Steeped at flameout for an hour. its still conditioning but at bottling it tasted...

Just thought I'd update on the aipa. Just tasted a hydrometer sample and its down to roughly 1.015 At the mo. not clear but don't expect that yet. Lovely grapefruit and lemon aroma and flavour balanced by a pleasant alcohol warmth at the end of the mouthful. Still got a while before I bottle...

Managed to persuade someone to sell me 7 demijohns for a tenner. But I'm debating how to use them. Shall I cook up some small batch brews or split one brew and dry hop with different varieties? What have you fine people all done?

Some interesting articles out there. I used to follow palmers recommendations to rehydrating, but I have been using very basic brewing yeast from my local garden centre until I started to know more about the process and not waste great yeast. This is my first time using the US-05 Strain so I...

SA-05? Never heard of that. Also never heard of killing half the packet by pitching it dry. Where did you hear that? Do you have a link I can read? Thanx for the reply :)

Brewed an American ipa on Thursday and it was Saturday morning before I saw any airlock activity. Dry packet 11g pitched onto 20oC wort then set at 18oC. Is this normal lag time for US-05?

Finally the brew has started fermenting more aggressively. It took over 24 hours lag time. Does anyone fund that with us-05 or could the 18oC be slowing the initial activity?

Ok so it went fine up til the point where my chiller decided to get blocked!! Tool me half hour to clear it so ended up hop steeping for an hour after flameout. Not a huge deal but damn annoying! Also my hop filter is too fine and cloggs up when transferring the cool wort to my fermenter. Live...

Learned quoting. Will do. I will post og and some other specs later tonight after I finish cleaning. :)

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That looks like a good recipe to me. Though when I put it into my software for a 5 gallon batch I'm getting around 1.077 OG. But you're settings and process may be different than mine. I'm using imperial gallons

Thanx for all the advice, I have ordered some 05 from eBay coz why not. Yeh I tweaked the app to suit my capacities etc. hopefully will be tasty. Reduced the cane to 250g to get about 6.6%. Not quite ready for the bigger ones yet. Great to hear from someone experienced and to know that I'm...

Ok so I've made adjustments just to see what beersmith says. 60m summit addition - 63.4 ibu 3kg dme .5kg cane .35kg caragold .5kg wheat dme Gonna get down from 1.067 to 1.012 So ends up at 7.3% abv. Phew! Not a driving beer then!! If I can't get hold of any us-05 in time for brew day (only...

And full boil I forgot to add

Thanx for the speedy reply. I will alter the recipe in the following ways 3.5kg dme down to 3kg plus 500g cane sugar 750g caragold down to 350g Shall I ditch the 30m summit addition and add more at 60m to bring the ibu back to the same? That much hops really? Ok will do. I haven't dry hopped...

Hey everyone, I'm new to brewing and this forum so forgive my social short comings. ;) Just wanted to see what anybody thought about the following recipe I will be trying this week. 5 gal batch 3.5kg ex light dme 500g wheat malt dme 750g caragold 25g summit 60m 25 summit 30m Flameout...