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Planning on brewing on Saturday and think I've got the ingredients for a dark Hefe but would like some suggestions on how much malt to steep and how much hops. I have: 2x1.5kg coopers wheat LME 500g wheat DME 500g crystal malt 500g carafa special 1 chocolate malt ebc800 Hallertau...

Just racked my John Bull Best Bitter into secondary fermenter and it smelled really fruity. Not off but like a really fruity wheat beer, is that normal? This is the first time I've done a kit, used a bag of beer enhancerinstead of the suggested table sugar, brewed it a little short to around...

I've been brewing a porter using s-04 and I have to say it has been a beast of a yeast! Went off like a rocket the evening I added it, struggled to keep the temperature down (was at bubbling away at 20C in a room at 14C!) and today after 2 weeks I emptied the collection ball of my conical to...

Just cracked open the first bottle of my second batch and I'm pretty underwhelmed by it. Its practically an identical recipe to the first batch, here is the recipes 3kg Coopers wheat LME 250g Carawheat 20g Hallertau @ 4.7% WLP300 yeast 1/2 Whirfloc tablet Batch 2 3kg Coopers LME...

Curious about other folks techniques, I just made a batch of porter where I didn't try and stop any of the gunk from my kettle going into the fermenter, do you think it will cause any off flavours? Was working alone so couldn't manage holding a sieve and poring the wort, I use a conical fv so...

I'm going to be bottling my first beer tomorrow but I have a major issue, the collection ball on my fastferment is stuck tight and I can't get the collar to budge at all. Any suggestions? Sent from my D6603 using Tapatalk

Hi, I'm about to do my first ever brew this weekend. I'm going for a hefeweizen and I have a couple of questions before I start: 1. Can I steep carawheat? From what I've read wheat has to be mashed not steeped, however, I've also read that all malts with the prefix 'cara' are speciality malts...

Hi, I'm about to start my first brew and have really enjoyed a lot of the stuff posted to the forum here. Hope to learn how to make drinkable beer!