It's birthday shopping time...

[RobWalker]

Right, my missus has given me 20 quid to order specality malts, hops and yeasts with...my local has the cheapest DME I can find so no need to order it!

Any suggestions, favourites that I could toy with? I'm mostly a light ale brewer and definitely ordering some caragold and american hops :)

 

[puravida]

I'd go lots of Cascade hops, Safale US-05 yeast and maybe a little bit of crystal malt.

 

[johnnyboy1965]

Try to plan a few brews ahead. This really keeps the cost down. Choose a dual purpose hop that your happy with and experiment with the malts, or PM me and Ill set you up with what you want (at cost only)

 

[Duxuk]

If you're buying DME then 20 quid is not a lot. I spent 15 and a bit today on 1.5kg of extract and 113g of Bullion. I wanted Northern Brewer but they'd run out. The Hop Charachteristics thread is fantastic :clap:
I already knew from that that Northdown was the nearest alternative but they only had some highly compressed vacuum packed blocks at a rather high price. Remembering my father's favourite phrase.........."'ow much?????????????" I went for the bullion in their own vacuum packs because the AAs were similar to NB.

Happy birthday anyway! It's mine next week and it has a zero in it. She'd better do better than £20 but if she gave me that much just for beer making I'd enjoy making the type of choice you're about to make.

 

[RobWalker]

If you're buying DME then 20 quid is not a lot. I spent 15 and a bit today on 1.5kg of extract and 113g of Bullion. I wanted Northern Brewer but they'd run out. The Hop Charachteristics thread is fantastic :clap:
I already knew from that that Northdown was the nearest alternative but they only had some highly compressed vacuum packed blocks at a rather high price. Remembering my father's favourite phrase.........."'ow much?????????????" I went for the bullion in their own vacuum packs because the AAs were similar to NB.

Happy birthday anyway! It's mine next week and it has a zero in it. She'd better do better than £20 but if she gave me that much just for beer making I'd enjoy making the type of choice you're about to make.

DME I will buy seperately :) this is for speciality grains, hops etc, nothing as a "base."

Here's what I went for in the end, spending just shy of 25 quid courtesy of worcester hop shop :)

Grain:
2kg CaraGold
1kg CaraMalt
1kg CaraPils
1kg Crystal Malt
1kg Torrified Wheat

Hops (vac packs:)
Bobek
Aurora
Cascade
Northern Brewer
Mt Hood
Saaz

2x Safale US-05.

 

[johnnyboy1965]

You cant go wrong at his prices

 

[johnnyboy1965]

No Chocolate?

 

[RobWalker]

I'm a golden ale man, really not into darker stuff!