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So checked the SG reading and after 11 days it was down to 1018 from original SG of 1068. Currently sat at 6.3% if it has stopped there, after tasting the trial jar all I can say is wowweee woooowarrrr! It reminds me a lot of Thornbridge Brewery chocolate Porter.

What would you class a the top 5 extract beers in your experience please as im interested to find out. Thanks Ben

Thanks for the heads up on this, noob question - would the 500g DME and 1k Light brew enhance help overcome this or is it just that the oils from coco powder will over rule them? Thanks By the way the first 2 days this thing went mental with regards to foamy krausen splurging through the...

Well I started this on Friday evening and used 1 x velvet stout tin 1 x Geordie Winter Warmer tin 500g Dark DME 1k of Light Spraymalt 50g organic cacao powder 200g of Crushed Chocolate Malt cold steeped Used velvet stout yeast and also a packet of safale s-04 Starting SG was 1068 Cant...

Bostin! this is just what i was looking for Thank you fo both of your input. This will keep me happy indeed. Many thanks as usual Clibit!:mrgreen:

Hi Guys i have got a spare 4.5 litre Demijohn and i'm looking to do my first all grain brew after doing about 6 extract kits. Where is best to get a recipe and step by step guide from for a beginner? Thanks for your help.

Cheers Clibit i will do as the instructions tell me :) From the picture on the box this has a large wheat beer type head.

I have this next to do, i have as follows to mix it up a bit 1 x can of Wilko Velvet Stout 1 x can of Geordie Winter Warmer Dark Ale 500g of Dark Malt Extract 100g of cocao powder 100-200g of Crushed Chocolate Malt (going to cold steep but unsure on amount yet) 2 x vanilla pods to split...

Hi guys I have this in the FV been in about 14 days now and i have had the hop pellets in for about 5 days. Its ready for bottling but you get 120 grams of priming sugar, now normally i prime my beer with 80g of sugar do i just do the full 120g and deal with the extra fiz? :confused...

Hi guys any one no the internal width of the hole in a standard demijon bung as I'm looking to make a blow of valve and want tivget the right sized tubing to fit in the bung hole where you airlock would normally hi. Being lazy as at work and want to order tube but dintvhave a bung to hand...

Tried mine the other night after 2 weeks in warm conditioning, oh my oh my oh my what a pint. Mine was short brewed to 15L and used Golden syrup, Coffee shots & Extra dark DME. Oh yeah batch primed with muscavado sugar and a little golden syrup. Its a belter! about 7% a bottle!

So I did a u turn on this and did a coopers stout short brewed to 15L and used golden syrup instead of sugar and 500g extra dark dme, also primed with light muscavado sugar and golden syrup - turned out to be a 7% scrummy stout. So I still have the Geordies winter warmer and now have a Wilko's...

I have just put the Festival Old Suffolk Ale kit on but I popped into my LHBS and picked the Pilgrims choice up as I had £22 burning a hole in my pocket :wink:, cant wait to get this on the go afterwards!

Cheers guys, so I started off the strong ale last night. I think I might put one of my sons big marbles into the mesh bag when dry hopping (after 5 days) and also include 100g of bourbon chips to the hop pellets in the same mesh bag. Do you think this might help? Thanks Ben

Hi I have a can of Geordies winter warmer and I wanted to experiment with it, thinking of a twocan kit. What other can/extract kit would people recommend to add to this to do Christmas ale? Thanks for your time and knowledge!

Hi Guys Seen a few of these tin/extract kits ay that the bottle life of the beers is 3 months, is this correct or something they have to stick on the tin? I only ask as I here people say that they mature their kits for 6 months and longer in bottles. Also people have drank bottled beer from...

I bottled my Evil Dog 2 weeks ago this sunday so looking to put it in for cold conditioning this sunday. Im not sure what SG I should expect the coopers stout to get down to? as it sits at 1014 now after 6 days.

I have just put this on last week - in the FV as follows Coopers original stout + Coopers yeast 500g Extra dark DME 350g Golden Syrup 220g of Dextrose sugar 3 shots of extra crème espresso and topped up to 15litres in the fv Starting SG reading was 1064(25/02/2015), should be a nice little...

So took a sg reading last night as the stout has been in the FV for 6 days and the SG reading is now sat at 1014 from original SG of 1064. Smells great but didn't taste test it as put trial jar contents back in as I short brewed it to 15L so want make sure I get as many bottles out of this as...

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