extract

I’ve started extract brewing with a small kettle and keg king chubby. I’m looking for any suggested recipes & advice on high gravity brewing. I’d like to use the Chubby to get a 4/5% abv lager in a 50 litre / 1/2 barrel keg. I understand that the keg can have 30-40% water added. What kind of...

Hi, I'm thinking of buying a custom made extract kit from my local homebrew shop, to brew a recipe I found online. One of the instructions for ordering the kit confused me and I'm hoping someone could clarify. It reads: "Please work out the hop weights required based on the alpha acids listed...

Hey all, This is my first brew I've done and I went with the recommendations to do an extract kit. I went with Coopers Canadian Blonde (made with 1kg of dextrose.) The instructions said it would be done fermenting in about a week. Yesterday (one week in fv) I checked the gravity and it was at...

Hi all, I've got a part grain recipe I want to try and wanted to know if there's any reason I couldn't do it in a Brewzilla system? I can imagine I might have to dilute the extract in my brewpan before it goes into the system but wanted to check and also find out if there's anything else I...

Hello, I am hoping to get some advice for my next extract recipe. I am planning on doing one of the single hop ales in the revised Greg Hughes Home Brew Beer book (page108). The grain recipe calls for 4.7kg of pale malt and 235g of carapils malt but the extract recipe states 300g carapils and...

Hi everyone, I made a MJ Saison kit last month (first brew), it’s been conditioning in bottle for 3 weeks and have had the odd taste, before bottling, a week in, and after 3 weeks... and it tasted pretty rubbish every time... I’m having trouble describing the flavour according to lists of “off...

hello, I have 1.2kg of Mangrove Jacks LME, I originally bought it to enhance a MJ kit (my first brew), but ended up using dextrose instead. Could I use the LME as a base for a beer? Does anyone have a recipe for something resembling a Belgian blonde using this? I guess maybe I’d need to steep...

Hi, I’m going to start my first extract brew this weekend that should yield about 9-10pints. The recipe tells me to boil the grains for 15 mins but the videos I’ve watched on YouTube say this should be for an hour (but they are making a 40 pint brew). So my question is; is the length of time...

Hello All I just have a couple of questions I haven't been able to find the answer to by Googling. I've done a couple of beer kits and have also done a SMASH all-grain brew, which was great but time consuming. I don't have a lot of time really but I've got some Fuggles hops left over and at...

Hello, I completed the first stage of this brew last week and although it initially seemed to have quite a good reaction in the bin, fermentation seemed to be complete after only 3 days. This didn't seem to be right so I have stirred it (possibly an error) to try and get it going again as this...

Hello ! I bought a simply pale ale kit (1.8 kg LME with some hop extract added) and I want to improve it a little bit :cheers3: I've decided that I will use 1kg of beer enhancer instead of the sugar and add 0.9 kg of H&B LME + I have some citra hops so will dry hope it as well . Not sure how...

This Thread is for people to post their reviews of Brew Masons new Hand Made Extract Beer Kits. So far I have heard good things but would like some feedback from seasoned Home Brewers.

I previously did some AG brews with a mash tun borrowed from a friend which I have sadly had to return. I'll be getting another one sorted at some point but in the meantime I'm going to do some extract brewing to tide me over. I am going to brew an extract czech pilsner and on top of the light...

Evening all :hat: I am thinking about doing my first extract beer and found this on amazon. It's a LME and at 3 kg for £13 its much cheaper then DME's I found online. I'm thinking about using 3kg of this + 0.5 kg sugar and some citra /cascade hops to make an IPA. Would this taste OK or do I...