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Found a pic of Kim Jong Il drinking JAPANESE beer in his panties and doctored it a bit.

How different the world could have been if Kim Jong Il was a hop-head:

http://homebrewjapan.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/kim-jong-il-drinks-hoppy4.jpg?w=480&h=382

Original pic here: http://homebrewjapan ...

A number of my homebrewing friends are harvesting yeast from commercial bottles or reusing yeast from previous fermentations. I wanted to know how it was done so I've researched it and then written up this guide - hope it is useful to people! :D

http://homebrewjapan.wordpress.com/2009/05/20 ...

I found this graph from brewsupplies.com which tells the effect of adding hops at various times in the boil.

http://www.brewsupplies.com/_borders/hop_utilization.jpg

The graph seems to say this:


Adding a hop about 7 minutes before the end of the boil will give maximum aroma. The aroma will ...

That's a good idea.

A number of bitters (eg Bishop's Finger and Fiddlers Elbow) seem to be based around Goldings, so I'm thinking to go with that. Those same recipes also use wheat malt - I can't get grain for that but I could use a pack of wheat spraymalt. Based on that, this is what I'm thinking ...

I'm looking to make an English style bitter using DME and speciality grains. I'd like to use a single hop because I want to get an idea of individual hop flavour - but if that's really not recommended, I can combine hops.

I'm quite limited in my choice of ingredients in Japan.

- I can get Fuggles ...

Is this product common knowledge? I found it on a Japanese website.

- Two kegs which you brew in
- A box which chills the beer as you pour it
- Mini CO2 cylinders

You actually brew in the kegs - pour your wort in there and pitch your yeast, then leave it there for 3 weeks.

https://www.diyna.com ...

My fermentation was stuck (same hydrometer reading for several days) at 1.018-20 so I added amylase enzyme, which is supposed to aid in restarting stuck fermentation.

My question is: how long does it take? I can see there is activity (lid bulges up in fermenter) but after two days there's only a ...

Bizier wrote:I have used in last few mins of boil with good results.

Bit too late to boil now, fermentation is already done

Ok, I get this now. Thank you!

Actually I want a beer which isn't overly bitter - it is one of the reasons I chose the original recipe and modified it by using different hops. I guess the recipe is "designed" to be less bitter, though it would probably more efficient to reduce the bitterness by ...

I took an "All Amarillo IPA" recipe and did a calculation to replace the hops with Centennial based on AAU (link and more details are in the first paragraphs on the webpage, so I wont repeat here).

> Did you use a program to help you with the recipe?
> You added all the malt extract to the water ...

My main reason for putting this beer into a secondary is because I want to add dried orange peel and coriander. I've heard that I shouldn't put this into the primary; instead I should put it into another bucket and then rack from the primary to the secondary.

So general advice then seems to be to ...

I've just finished making my first beer which didn't involve a "kit" tin. I've written up the whole process step by step with lots of pics and I'd appreciate your comments on (1) anything I did wrong, (2) how I could improve what I did in future, and (3) any comments which would make this easier to ...

My first beer (Black Rock Lager with sugar) fermented down to 1006 without any problem

But my second beer (Black Rock Whispering Wheat with Munton's Wheat Spraymalt) has issues.

Firstly, on day 1, it almost exploded:
http://homebrewjapan.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/something-wrong/

I then left it ...

I want to get a new bucket and use my current primary as a secondary. How to brew says:

It is important to minimize the amount of headspace in the secondary fermentor to minimize the exposure to oxygen until the headspace can be purged by the still-fermenting beer. For this reason, plastic ...