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you need to boil the extract to gain the bittering quality of the hops. No boil no bitterness. beer kits have the hops already boiled in. (well they have bitterness in them anyway whether that is from hops or not is subject for debate) Sounds like what youre doing should work quite well.

head looks a bit on the thin side too ;)

Currently on with stewing some oranges in some apple juice and spices and sugar and stuff on the stove. im planning to cool and ferment this sort of mulled turbo cider in a bit when i think its all nice and infused. Is it a good or bad idea to leave the oranges/spices in the fermenter, or...

Which part of north london are you in. I'm in tottenham. you would have to organise to have it picked up though.

well this is quite often done on a proffesional scale so should be ok for you. i would just pitch the yeast as soon as the first batch is in there. andas normal maintain correct temparature.

Also its a good idea if possible to add sugars slowly to the mix. dogfish head do a beer at 18% using this method.

Just used wb06 - little bit of banana, very phenolic and peppery. just gone into secondary though so hopefully will calm down a bit.

Made my xmas brew in january :oops: so its had a good long mature. not sure OG 1115 will let me enter this one though. Doh.

Good luck Baz looks like a lovely recipe. The 80c steep makes a big difference. Should be a nice pint.

Do you have a link?

Kyral in your method you dont add extra yeast. as ive already said ive primed the bottles with sugar for carbonating i was just worried that id taken out too much of the yeast. i think i'm gonna give it a couple of weeks in the warm then if nothing occurs drop 2-3 granuals of yeast into each...

ok cool. really you fine first....? thats promising. well its been sat in the warm for 4 days now i'll have a little look tonight maybe see if theres been any activity. so you definately get good carbonation like that? and no sediment?

Just wait till its stopped bubbling completely. the bubbles mean its still converting sugar to alcohol - fermenting. you c an stop this early by popping in a campden if you like and leave a sweeter andlessalcoholic drink if you prefer. if notthrow a capden in when it has fully stopped any...

well i fined and primed at the same time so considering no bubbles would mean the sugar should still be there. i didnt forget the sugar the problem was that i stripped too much yeast out.

I know this was a bit silly really but ive been trying to get my beers as bright as possible a nd thought there might be enough yeast in suspension to carbonate my bottled beer but alas no bubbles. ok so i fined the beer there is 0 sediment in the bottles cold conditioned for 2 weeks at around...

I've got a fair idea of my recipe for this but before i post it just wondering if anyone else has attempted to replicate this weizen dopplebock. This is one of my all time favourite beers and was the first one that really turned me on to seriously good beer.

looky here http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/view ... 12&t=32406

Well put the first element in high in the copper and it really struggled. took about an hour to get to rolling but with a massive cold spot under the hop filter. I decided to cut the edges off this and so lower it right to the bottom of the cfopper and put a syphon tube into it. I'll drill...

Just wondering if anyones got an opinion still on whether the elements will be better below or above the hop screen. I'm thinking below so it will be easier to remove the screen and possibly wrapping some piping round the edge to make it wider and thus higher in the copper. Any advice is welcome.

Been pretty busy the last two nights and nearly finished. managed to get the manifold finally cut out. this was a real pain and something i had to do in small chunks. i have to say though i'm pretty happy with the final product. The manifold is very tight on the bottom of the tun and when...