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Thanks guys, great suggestions.

David.

Hello all. I'm about to brew an extract oatmeal stout this weekend. I was wondering if anyone could suggest how I may be able to increase the OG of the beer (and the FG for that matter) without necessarily increasing the final alcohol content?

Are there ways to increase body without adding more ...

Ash,

Yeah, that was the recipe I used. I'm sure it's not perfect by any measure but the flavour turned out how I was hoping. I wouldn't use any more Choc though. 125grams is certainly enough.

David.

I made a nice milk stout a couple of months back that my wife really loves. ( I love it too in the interests of gender equality).

1 x Blackrock Miner's Stout.
1kg Dried dark malt extract
500gr powdered lactose
125gr Choc grain
25gr Crystal grain
20gr Goldings hop pellets (boil for 15 min)
Batch ...

I had the same thing with my last batch. It was a lager and I pitched a Saflager W-34/70 yeast. During fermentation there was a strong sour odour which had me a bit worried but I've since been credibly told is usual for that yeast. The beer was fine in the end.

Hello all,

I brewed a lager recently and was cold conditioning the bottled beer in a small fridge. Being slightly slow on the complexities of refrigeration mechanics, I turned it down too low and the beer froze in the bottles. They had been primed and bottled 10 days earlier.

I used Saflager 34 ...

Hello all,

I've just brewed a lager and bottled it yesterday. It was brewed using W-34/70 yeast and given the hot weather, I could only keep the temperature down to about 17c. I only have the one fermenter so I wasn't able to rack and cold condition the beer in a secondary.

I was wondering though ...

Thank you for all your help, I'll give these suggestions a try.

I've just been rinsing the glasses clean in cold water since a friend advised me to do that. It hasn't really improved things a great deal. Could the detergent the glasses were washed in before be hanging around?

Hello all,

I've put down a few batches, and from early on I've gone with a kit and malt (no dextrose or extra sugar). Some have had grain added also.

I'm sure the answer appears somewhere within this forum but at the risk of revealing my stupidity to you all I'll ask again, why doesn't my beer ...

I drank a warm cup of vomit once, but it could have been Tasman Ice.

Hi,

Long time listener, first time poster.

To keep an eye on the temperature of the grains, I bought a candy thermometer which dips into the liquid. From there I just adjusted the stove top to keep it between 70 and 80c.

I got the thermometer from Howard's Storage for about $10.