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I am thinking with this OG, you are looking for the Hen's Tooth?

Well done Mr gregb! And well done Mr Dogger Dan. Award winning recipe!

Mr da_done_damage, if you are using that yeast, fuggles hops. If you want to make it with the cascade, try with US-56 American Ale yeast. Either will make a nice beer, I am thinking.

I am thinking that the Saunders Malt Extract is not brewing malt. If it is in the baking section, you have bought bakers malt extract which is not being made with fermentability foremost in the mind. What gravity was it that your beer started and then finished at?

Sounds valid. The sediment is ...

It takes about 10 minutes for me to wash half a dozen glasses. But I am very fortunate as I have both hot and cold running water in my kitchen.

It is of course not necessary to do this every wash. Just perhaps once every month I am doing all of my glasses.

I have been using my Superautomatica for close to twenty years. It is still making perfect seals on bottles.

I am surprised to read that none of you is using the greatest method for glass cleaning. Removes all grease build up, which is the main cause of headless beers, then is neutralised and restored odourless.

Step 1: Rinse clean glass with hot water until nothing is visible.
Step 2: Fill glass with hot ...

I am thinking that the Saunders Malt Extract is not brewing malt. If it is in the baking section, you have bought bakers malt extract which is not being made with fermentability foremost in the mind. What gravity was it that your beer started and then finished at?

Thats over 2 kilo of malt. The beer may turn out a tad sweet. You might want to use some bittering hops aswell as your flavouring.

That kit is being very heavily bittered. It is bittered to brew a 1.050+ beer. It is needing the malt. Of those hops I would use Fuggles or Hallertau. Either would be ...

Oscar, what temperature are you fermenting at? Even a Coopers kit yeast will make better beer at 20 degrees.

A question out of ignorance...
If the kit makers (brew companies) have access to good ingredients and good techniques, why would doing the same thing at home be better? Is it all in the fact that the Kits need to be dehydrated at the factory, and this lessens the end product?
Just wondering as I ...

California Common or "Steam Beer" is all about the Northern Brewer hop. Right the way thru, from bitterring to aroma. Think of it as a showcase for the alround woody bittering flavour aroma hop. Yeast at warm lager (15°C) or cool ale (18°C) is also necessary. Wonderful style it is being, indeed!

Why? Why oh why?

Here's something better:

Long Legged Blonde:

1 Can Black Rock India Pale Ale
1Kg Light Dry Malt Extract (or 1.2Kg light liquid malt extract)
200g dextrose
12g Tettnang hop pellets

Total volume 18 litres

Ferment 18-22°C for 10 days then rack to secondary for >1 week before ...

mprilla, can you source "Pride of Ringwood" hops? If so, I can help you produce a good Australian Ale. If not, fair well with whatever you like.

At 32 though you will be bringing in some esters which is OK, just remember that they are going to happen.

Dogger

More than esters. 32C is going to make fusel alcohol. Do not be worrying about the nail polish remover aroma and flavour. Please to be thinking about the killed brain cells and ...

You people must be kidding. Have I not spent enough time smacking n00bs on the head for mistaking the USA cascade hops for the Australian Cascade brewery????!!!???

I have no idea about what you people are thinking. http://www.google.com type "cascade hops" and please be reading the first 20 hits.

Normal ale yeasts such as supplied in Coopers lager kits can ferment up to about 15% in suitable conditions. These conditions are not including the addition of masses of cane sugar. The yeasts require excellent aeration, sufficient nutrients, either from the malt or as a supplement and the correct ...

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So the barman gave her one.

Coopers Brewmaster Selection Wheat
Coopers 1.5kg Wheat LME
1kg torrefied wheat steeped
15g ground coriander seed
12g Tettnanger finishing hop bag

Torrefied wheat must be mashed, it must. It contains no enzyme for the conversion of its starches into sugars. It cannot be treated like crystal ...

Chris, I thing that there are extracts and there are extracts. Not all are the same. Many cheaper kits are getting their extract from people like Coopers and Carlton and Lion Nathan... but which? Whoever is cheapest. Some kits are boiled and hopped before canning (kettled). Some are straight up ...