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Update: The more carbonation, the less of that undesirable taste was present. Gave some to friends and they thought it was nice. It just wasn't what i was aiming for. The moral of the story - don't use lemon verbena leaf again (or at least so much), and don't heat up your brew too fast.

Hi, I started a brew last night, and I am wondering about the recipe, and if people might have some suggestions. I am aiming for an 8.5% IPA. The recipe includes: 3kg of hopped Malt Extract 0.5kg of hopped DME 1.5kg of DME (the supplier ran out of hopped DME) 1.1kg of "powdered" sugar 40...

for this particular type of yeast, 20 degree fermentation leads to them releasing more desirable flavours. They were described as a kind of bananna flavour. Above 24 degrees and these flavours start to change. Below 20 and they give much less of those desired flavours. I still haven't bottled...

The type of yeast used needed a perfect temperature of 20 degrees. 24 max. 15 would stop the yeast from changing the sugars. I had it between 18 - 24, with some extreme fluctuation at times. This was the readings of a thermo strip on the side of the fermentation bucket.

Thanks for all the feedback guys! :)

2nd. My first was the same kit with added lime zest before bottling. Turned out lovely. Drank 40 pints in 2 weeks! :D

No I didn't boil the extract. The instructions state that you add 3 litres of hot/boiled water to the extract and sugar, mix it up until it is completely diluted, then slowly add room temperature water (22 litres) all the while mixing thoroughly. Then sprinkle the dry yeast on top without...

What's in this kit? (Craft Range Citra IPA Kit ) This kit comes with 3kg hopped LME, 650g sugar, 100g priming sugar, generous 60g (citra) hop pellets, muslin bag, 1pk West Coast ale yeast (15 grams) I did not know that the malt extract was pre-hopped until I had read the above. I added an...

I'm Irish. :) awaiting moderator permission to publish my last comment, as I linked another site which reviewed the kit I used...

This is the kit. I did not know it was a pre-hopped kit until now - http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/index.php?topic=7692.0 I added an extra 100% sugar (1300 grams in total) and 26 grams of yeast instead of 15 grams. Then instead of adding just 60 grams of Citra, I added it along...

I did not use any hops in the boil as I used a kit with a liquid malt extract. 60 grams of Citra was the recipe for dry hoping.

Well, it's hard to explain, but it smells bitter/sour and not at all hoppy. I will have to taste to conform I suppose. I will get back to you.

Hi, I am brewing only a few months now and wanted to make a super hoppy ale. After reading some forums and articles, I was of the impression that you can never add too much hops, but now I am thinking that there is a limit when dry hoping only. After about 10 days fermentation, I added 2 oz...