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Has anyone tried using flavour and aroma hops additions ONLY? I'd like to get a lot of hop flavour in a pale ale and not an overpowering bitterness. The IBU will still work out to what I want for the style though. So something like: .5 oz @ 40 min 1 oz @ 20 min 1.5 oz @ 10 min 2 oz dry...

I'd like to revive this thread. Hoptical is one of my favourite beers right now and, as a new brewer, I'd love to figure out a recipe. I'm actually hoping to take a tour of the Flying Monkeys brewery soon -- I'll see if I can get some info. :)

There was also another recent thread about buying supplies in Canada: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/best-place-supplies-canada-207574/ Since that thread I made an order with http://www.homebrewgearcanada.com/ -- highly recommended!

Here's what I was thinking: 5 Gal batch with a 3 Gal boil Yeast: Nottingham or US-05 7lbs . Pale Malt Extract - 47.6 Points 1lb. Carastan (steeped) - 4.4 Points OG: 1.052 BG: 1.087 0.5oz Northern Brewer 10% @ 60min - 20 IBU 0.5oz Cascade 6% @ 30 min - 10 IBU 0.5oz Cascade 6% @ 15 min - 6...

Thanks for this! In all my searching so far I haven't seen a comparison like this. So it sounds like with 7 lbs of LME if I had 1 lbs of crystal, that might be have a little extra sweetness and body -- I should have 0.7 lbs (or 10%). I'm actually fine with a bit extra body. I'll just...

Thanks for the feedback guys. Hopefully I'll get to try this out this weekend. Just waiting to get some StarSan from my brother-in-law -- using bleach last time screwed up my last batch...

I just finished a pre-boiled pre-made kit (Festa Brew Pale Ale) that's currently conditioning in bottles. For my next batch I wanted to do a real boil with an extract recipe. Something similar to Palmer's Cincinnati Pale Ale. Palmer's recipe calls for: 3-4 lbs of Pale LME 3 lbs of Amber...

Any extract brewers in the Markham/Richmond Hill area? Yesterday I had a visit with these guys: http://barleyandgrapes.com/ Andy (the owner I believe) was very helpful. He's willing to sell some of his Pale Extract Syrup for $6 / Litre. We measured the weight of that -- 1420g or 3 lbs. 2 oz...

What are the prices you've seen so far? I'm looking for some more too but I just use that as an excuse to buy more craft beer! ;)

Looks like I need to accelerate my efforts on getting to All-Grain!

I find their prices for extract to be a little high (just started shopping for my first batch). I also stumbled upon this: http://www.homebrewgearcanada.com/ Anyone use them before?

One more note: I knew perfectly well that 10 days is way too early. I'm taking some samples to experience how much a beer changes during conditioning - sort of a case study on the conditioning phase in general. So I'm not THAT neurotic (sort of). It's also my first foray into developing a...

Thanks for the feedback everyone -- great to be joining such an active community! I'm pretty sure it wasn't just the bubbles from the CO2 -- there were slight gurgling noises which tipped me off to the leak. I think what really happened is that I used some slightly too hot water to rinse after...

I bottled my first batch just over a week ago (I did a simple Fest Brew to get used to the process, etc). Long story short: I think my auto-siphon was faulty and had a leak in the gasket (between the inner and outer tubes). I had lots of bubbles in the line while I was racking to my priming...