Recent content by cornishpasty

Hello all, I have been brewing (slowly) for around a year and have done 4 batches and a kit. All my batches I have used liquid malt extract and a small amount of steeped grains (chocolate malt etc.). The kit tasted fantastic but all my brews have had the same strong liquorice flavour which I...

Ok, I thought that the specific amounts of grains were probably not the cause of the problems so I left them out. I can dig out the recipe I used if you think it'd help. I think I may have found the cause, or at least a contribution to my off flavours. Palmer in How To Brew describes Maillard...

Thanks for that advice. Good things come to those who wait I suppose... In fact, I'm sure I can taste a very nice beer underneath all the bad flavours. Hopefully she'll come out :)

Hello, I thought it was about time to join a home brew forum, for times like this, when things go wrong! The situation is: I brewed a Bock style beer two weeks ago, and it's been fermenting until now. The recipe details are: Chocolate malt (crushed) Caramunich malt (crushed) Amber malt...