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I just bought a 38 L pot for BIAB, where I have previously been using a 15 L pot and doing partial mash 20 L diluted batches. Amazing what a difference it is! I cannot believe I had been undergoing all the extra effort to use a partial mash. Anyways, thinking about fitting a kettle conversion...

So I am attempting what I have decided to call a ThaIPA. I thought it was an original idea but I am sure it has been done before. I would like to produce an IPA with citrusy floral hop characteristics and the addition of kaffir lime leaves, coriander seeds and lemongrass. Pretty set on the hops...

I normally wash and reuse my yeast and place it in labeled jars in the fridge. I have only ever used dry yeast, and some may say that it's silly to recycle dry yeast because it is so cheap. I live in Australia, the land of inflated prices, so every bit counts. I understand that most people like...

Hi guys, I just came out of a home brew competition and I am feeling a little less confident about my ability to make a good IPA. 33/50 was my total total score. Tasting points were: -"Great looking beer" -"Would like more hop aroma" -"Too much crystal malt" -"Hop astringency" -"Possibly...

Hi guys, Just adapted Yooper's House Pale Ale into a partial mash BIAB a few months ago with all Cascade and really enjoyed the resulting beer. I was thinking about keeping the base malts the same as I have used the first time and changing the hops while keeping a similar hop schedule. I have...

Hi guys, I am meeting a group of friends in Europe to celebrate one of them getting married. It is largely a bucks trip but really a whole lot more than the standard. We plan to stay in Amsterdam for three nights, spend a night on the way to Munich somewhere else and then of course a few days...

Hi, I am about to brew a batch of the lemon lime hefe weizen and am going to use Mangrove Jack's Bavarian Wheat yeast. Up until now I have been predominately brewing American ales with US-05. Any recommendations on how I should treat this yeast any differently than what I am currently doing...

I just brewed a DIPA yesterday as a partial mash BIAB and had surprisingly low efficiency. I mashed 4.2 kg of grain in a 15.2 l pot which was filled to the rim with grain and mash water. The mash was still very wet with no dough balls and I regularly stirred it. I mashed at 67 C with a 75 C...

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 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...

Has anyone else noticed inconsistency in off-flavours among bottles in a single batch? I experienced this recently with a batch of golden ale and was really enjoying this beer until I gt about three or four bottles with an off kind of cardboard/synthetic/plastic bite to them. I assumed my batch...

If I wanted to make Yooper's Dogfish Head IPA clone recipe and only had access to Magnum to use as my bittering hop rather than Warrior, would I just calculate the percentage difference in AA and use additional Magnum in the boil? ie. Warrior is 15% AA and Magnum is 12.5% AA so Warrior has 1.2 x...

Hi guys, I am pretty new to this but one of the big advantages of homebrewing seems to be that you can flavour your beer with anything you want. I was just thinking, what is the weirdest thing you have put in your beer and actually had it turn out to be great? If it turned out to be total...

Hi guys, I found a good looking recipe for Peter Zien's Evil Dead Red clone and I have modified it to use up the leftover grains, extract I have in my fridge and recycled US-05. I was wondering if anyone could provide input as to whether my modifications are going to significantly or...

Hi guys, I was brewing an american amber last night and drinking probably a bit too much homebrew simultaneously and decided it would be a good idea to cool my kettle in my swamp chiller bucket which was halfway full of cooling water. To my horror, as I had my back turned the entire kettle...

Hi guys, After brewing up a batch of American amber ale I have some leftover extract and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on what I could make with it. The extract I have left is as follows: -1 kg CBW Golden Light LME -0.5 kg Bavarian Wheat LME -1 kg CBW Sparkling Amber...

Hi guys, This is my first post in the forum but I have been brewing and reading posts for a couple months now. I am a relative newbie and have three batches under my belt. I found an interesting article, describing a technique of using only late addition hops in a boil to achieve all of...