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Ok got it. Should I drain the wort from the mash first before adding sparge water? Then I could fit a little more in. Is this standard practice?

It's 25L (6.6gal). Ok then I should basically sparge with as much water that will fit in the tun and then top up?

The OG 1.058 was and FG was 1.018. Since it didn't attenuate quite as well as I hoped maybe as suggested a little dextrose will do the trick - will 400g (1lb) do it? By popular demand, here's the hop schedule I should have included in my initial post (28g is about 1 Oz - for you US guys)...

Thanks for the replies. Ok it's decided, I'll go one step sparge. Adding the two water volumes of water is out since I can't fit it. So question is how much water to use? Seems that since it is a partial mash efficiency won't suffer too much with less sparge water (half of what AG would?)...

I just created and brewed my first own recipe. It's been 3 weeks now and I finally got to taste it. It tasted pretty good actually. Head retention was amazing and lasted until I finished the beer. Colour was darker than I wanted and also more orangey. For taste, it was pretty good. The...

I've just moved from extract to partial mash. I have a 6.6 gallon (25L) cooler mash tun and a 8 gallon (30L) boil pot. In the last recipe I brewed, I used 5.5lbs (2.5kg) of grain - which was 55% of total grain/DME. Beersmith told me to add 7L (1.8 gallons) of strike water for the mash. For the...

Might have to freeze the rest!

no exploding bottles but I use PET bottles. I think it would be a different story with glass. I think the lids would have popped off. There's a bit of give in PET bottles.

So I brewed my first lager. Bottled as usual, let it carb up for 3 weeks and then stuck it in my in-law's spare fridge. Not knowing the fridge I set it to the coldest setting. Checked it a few days later, everything looked good. So I left it and didn't check it for another 3 weeks. That's...

Good point. Will do that then. Thx:mug:

Thanks for checking back. It's 30 SRM currently. The commercial one I tried more like a really dark maroon than bright red. You could only just see through it when you held it up to the light. The carafa contributes about 20 SRM. So maybe I'll half it to get it closer to around 20 SRM?

Ok thanks Feurhund & chickypad. I'll double or triple the dry hops. And for the grains I'll stick with the Rye for spiceyness. I cut back on the grains: Rye Caramel Malt 0.18kg / 0.4lbs CaraMunich 3 0.10kg / 0.22lbs - maltiness + found out the brewer uses this. crystal 120...

I tasted a red coloured IPA brew the other day and wanted to clone it. I found some of the hops on the brewers website but had to guess the grains and amount of hops. My recipe below. It tasted real hoppy, had strong hoppy armoma, had some slight caramel/toffee flavours, spicyness and citrus...

I just found this spreadsheet for modifying kit beers. http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/29655-kit-and-extract-beer-spreadsheet/ Not sure how accurate it is but seems quite detailed. If I go by this and if I'm using it correctly I should get a 4.8% bottled beer using the above recipe (23...

Just looking at recipes in a brewing book I have...these are all extract or grain recipes though. So the brew enhancer and the coopers can are curve balls. Ok so if I use the recipe calculators.....what do I put in for the coopers kit? The ones I've seen have options for LME or DME. Do I...

Brew Enhancer 1 - 60% dextrose, 40% maltodextrin So this won't ferment? I'm quite new to brewing so I don't understand 100% What would you do to increase the alcohol to 4.5% Less water? More DME? None of the above? I've another 200g of DME left. Will 10-15g (about 0.35 of an ounce) do it?

I've been lurking here for a while and this is my first post. I just bought a brew fridge and the guy that sold it threw in a couple of cans of cooper's lager + some 1kg of brew enhancer 1. I don't want to waste the ingredients but I don't want to brew it as is. I thought I'd try and turn it...