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Its alright. I like making my own wort anyway! :)

How is this any different from fresh wort kits?

Also, watch what you say about Craigtube ;). There is a lot of snobbery over the amateurism of his methods oh this forum. Personally I think those videos were great when I did my first batch and made it easy to understand.

+1 You may as well bookmark John Palmer's site because it is the best resource I have found for free, with basically everything you would want to know about the basics of brewing beer. I tried out a couple kits and had satisfactory results, however I am not sure how much of that was...

Jost bottled this evening. Tastes amazing out of the fermenter. I am very impressed with the aroma and flavour I was able to achieve with only 1.5 oz dry hop addition. Thanks for the recipe Yooper. Looking forward for this to prime, and with 7% ABV!

Has anybody had experience priming with juice before? Would you just assume that the sugar in the ingredients is sucrose and prime accordingly or do you have to adjust for fermentability? I am planning to use "apricot nectar" in a can to prime a beer which has 1200 g of apricot puree in the...

I totally understand where you're coming from. I recently had an incident where I had a few too many pale ales and decided it would be a good idea to float my kettle inside a large volume of cooling water to chill the wort. Tipped the whole batch into the cooling water. Thought I had ruined my...

One of the things I have found to be a bit annoying about brewing forums is when someone describes a situation they had or a recipe they have proposed, goes off and makes it and then never mentions again in that thread, so others have no idea what happened with the resulting beer. I will say...

This sounds like the most awesome possible way to make beer.

Ok so I would imagine that I would get an even better result if I cold crashed the beer after achieving FG and then adding apricot puree at this point to the primary for a week.

Good point. I don't want any of that crap interfering with my yeast. Has anyone had experience doing this all in the primary, while of course waiting for fermentation to complete?

I should probably mention that my partial mash is BIAB. I think I am meant to add half the oats at 20 min left in my 68 degree C 90 minute mash and boil the other half in a muslin bag throughout the boil. Does that do more for my beer than just mashing my oats?

Thanks for that. This is the reason I ask questions in forums. Otherwise I would have just discarded the pulp. I am also wondering if this will be enough apricots for the flavour I want or if I should rehydrate some organic dried apricots and blend them up as well. I have a powerful blender...

I think that the cornstarch is indeed for the haze effect. I was reading the whole hread, trying to design my recipe and got to page 20 before I skipped to the last page and picked something that the original recipe had been adapted into by the people in the thread. It had obviously been...

I am looking for a way to get my girlfriend into the idea and habit of enjoying my homebrew as much as I do. I would like to make a beer that is a cross of her two favourites (which we can't get in Australia), Blue Moon and St. Ambroise Apricot Wheat Ale from Quebec. Ideally, I am aiming to...

They are kept in a closed cupboard in my kitchen so I don't think that was the issue. And ya they are Copper Tun amber bottles. I get funny looks when I bring them to a party but the beer that comes out of them turns people around haha. I should go glass eventually but for now this is easy and...

Haha alright I suppose I just have to be more careful on my next. I suppose It was never going to be that good anyway considering it was originally a can of Cooper's pre-hopped extract and a can of wheat LME with 1/2 oz cascade dry hop. I have since moved on to partial mash and boil and have a...

Sorry I forgot it was called a bottling wand. I meant exactly what you said. Fill it until it nearly overflows and remove the wand for the perfect head space. :mug:

Ok cool thanks for that. So lesson learned is crank my bottles as tight as they go and fill them with the bottle filler till they overflow for optimal head space. Thanks guys. I will try this on next batch!

If you use a large (65l) tub and rotate frozen water bottles you can keep your beer at a regularly consistent cooler temperature in a warmer climate. I live in Australia and have to deal with the fact that I don't have A/C at my place. If you put a t-shirt over the fermentor as well this works...