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That's awesome news, now if you can do that with a kilo of cocaine we'll have a business :-P A kilo... you could do a tiny smash.

The perfect summer beer in the middle of winter :-)

I checked my superbeer today and it's dropped to around 1.06 so it's obviously fermenting, just slowly, 1.06 puts it about 19% so I'm hoping it keeps going

Well the transfer has not resulted in any activity, I don't know why, there's plenty of yeast, there's plenty of sugar, I wouldn't have thought shocking the yeast from 9% starter beer to the 15% + unfermented sugar superbeer would have killed it but it's possible. I have got a vial of White Labs...

There are 2 formulas to calculate abv from specific gravity, the normal one people use gets inaccurate at and above 10%. The alternate formula is more complex but much more accurate (plus you get a higher abv for no extra cost ;-) ) I'm hoping it finishes about 1.03 but will just have to wait...

Well I transferred my super beer tonight, the Nottingham yeast took it down to 1.084 so it is pretty much 15% already, I put it onto a decent yeast cake that I just removed the starter beer from tonight as well. (the starter beer is actually a really nice imperial ipa) Gave it more nutrients...

I did single, works well, got one of my highest efficiencies that I ever got

Yeah, Utopias has maple syrup added. Not sure on the mellowing, I'll just have to try it and see. How was Utopias, it's uncarbed isn't it? I'm thinking that might be an option for me

If anyone is interested I uploaded a bunch of photos to instagram and twitter https://twitter.com/kiwirevo http://instagram.com/kiwirevo

my LHBS said I got the very last of one of the 3 in my super beer, can't remember which.

I need to start thinking about the homebrew comps. I entered beervana last year with my 5th brew but they don't give any feedback so it was a bit of a waste of time. Is there somewhere I can access a timetable off all the upcoming comps?

Hey Matt, glad I could coax you out of threadstalkertown :D Here's my recipe http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/46161/super-beer- But you'll also need a second recipe, an entire brew starter :ban...

It was a bit crazy, especially considering I have like a 50% chance of it fermenting out properly and even then I have no idea how I'm going to carb it

Well it took 10.5 hours to boil down and I got to bed at 5AM (less than 2 hrs sleep before getting up for work) still a lot of cleaning to do tonight but its in the fermenter, got 16L at the OG I needed of 1.173. Syphoning was pointless, this stuff is like really thick hot chocolate (colour &...

The mash was long but I didn't think about this. Boiling 50Litres down to 15 is going to take like 10 hours :-( probably going to have split it over 2 nights

This weekend I've brewed my super beer starter brew now named Ignition since its the brew tts actually just growing my eau de vie yeast that will be the 2nd yeast for my Super Beer which I'm brewing right now that will have an OG of 1.17 and hopefully ferment to 20+% :-) I'm onto the 2nd mash...

http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/imports/plants/standards/bnz-npp-human.htm Website says "Malted barley for brewing purposes : no certification or inspection requirements. I think that means you can bring it in and declare it, they'll check it for bugs etc and then you'll be fine. You may...

Hope the pic added this time.

Well I opened a GREAT bottle of it today, really well carbed. The booze shows through a bit much but the malt, bitterness and hops are quite balanced. I was hoping for a bit more hop aroma but other than that it's fantastic! Very deep red.

I'm just getting all the stuff together for it and I have to wait for my fermenters to be empty. Probably wait until after my birthday at the end of may as i hope my wife is getting me a grain mill. And with 14kgs of grain getting closer to 80% rather than 60% would be good