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    Since malt extract is expensive...

    I'm thinking about going all the way with all grain this time. The recipe I was thinking of: 4kg Maris Otter 1kg High colour crystal A slack handful of chocolate malt (couple hundred grams max.) Challenger hops for an hour Bramling cross for 15, 5 and dry hopping S04 yeast What I have been...
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    I've fallen in love....

    With citra hops! Just cracked open my latest brew, been in bottles for 5 days so it's still pours like cold tea. But blimy, it's a fruity hoppy explosion! Quite similar to a Brew Dog Punk IPA I think. For those interested: 2kg Maris otter 500g Crystal 1.5kg Light DME Safale S04 100g...
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    Bottle Priming

    Hi all, Got a beer in my fermenter that's been dry hopping for a week and a half and I'm about ready to bottle. I usually use Coopers carbonation drops simply because they're so easy to use. But I ran out, they're a little bit expensive, and I'm feeling too lazy to pop to the home brew shop...
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    My First Partial Mash

    First go at a complicated-ish beer, and it's turned out quite well. I'm really quite pleased. Ingredients for a 5 gallon brew: Fermentable: Maris Otter pale malt - 1kg High colour crystal malt - 500g Chocolate malt - a slack handful Light spraymalt - 2kg Hops: Challenger (1 hour) - 100g...
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    Preserving hop aromas and flavours

    Hi all, long time no post. Got my latest beer in the fermenter at the moment. It's my first go at a partial mash beer, I used a kilo of Maris Otter, half a kilo of high colour crystal malt and a little bit of chocolate malt, bulked out with a few bags of light spraymalt (would have gone with...
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    Newbie: Is my beer meant to smell like this?

    Hello all. Just bottled my first batch of beer with my new kit. It was a Coopers English bitter that came with said kit but with a bit of added medium spraymalt and a challenger hop tea. Fermentation started off well but slowed right down on day 3 of fermentation, hitting 1020 and refusing to...
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