Apart from the recipe in "The tale of two ales..."
http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/vi ... php?t=2349
Can anyone suggest a beaut recipe to turn a can of Tooheys Real Ale (acquired from father's day) into a bonza drop?
Tooheys Real Ale Recipe Question
I'd go so far as to say any kit could be turned into an OK beer.
I'm a dark beer fan, so I'd steep some Crystal, Choc & Roast malts, boil & add your 1kg Malt Extract & some hops if you wish.
Use a good yeast, ie US-56, S-04 or reculture some Coopers Pale Ale yeast.
One of my fave brews so far was 2 (out of date $3 ea) Tooheys Draught cans, some hops and Coopers yeast. For less than $7 mighty good!
I'm a dark beer fan, so I'd steep some Crystal, Choc & Roast malts, boil & add your 1kg Malt Extract & some hops if you wish.
Use a good yeast, ie US-56, S-04 or reculture some Coopers Pale Ale yeast.
One of my fave brews so far was 2 (out of date $3 ea) Tooheys Draught cans, some hops and Coopers yeast. For less than $7 mighty good!
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You can do anything with it.
My latest beer was a Can of Beermakers Draught I got free with a fermentor I bought. I put in Safale s04 and steeped 500gm CaraAroma and boiled about 12L of water. added the can and 800gms LDM, 200gms Sugar(the malt was my left overs) and 40gms of Northdown hops at 60 then another 25gms at 20mins. Its only low SG 1.040 will give me a mid strength brew, but the hoppy vanilla and Choc smells coming from the fermentor already waters up my mouth. I plan to dry hop with Hersbrucker.
Cheap cans are great to make a quick brew if you add quality ingredients. Mine were all my left overs!
Makes a great change from doing AG and so much quicker. Takes me back.
My latest beer was a Can of Beermakers Draught I got free with a fermentor I bought. I put in Safale s04 and steeped 500gm CaraAroma and boiled about 12L of water. added the can and 800gms LDM, 200gms Sugar(the malt was my left overs) and 40gms of Northdown hops at 60 then another 25gms at 20mins. Its only low SG 1.040 will give me a mid strength brew, but the hoppy vanilla and Choc smells coming from the fermentor already waters up my mouth. I plan to dry hop with Hersbrucker.
Cheap cans are great to make a quick brew if you add quality ingredients. Mine were all my left overs!
Makes a great change from doing AG and so much quicker. Takes me back.
Sounds like Beer O'clock.
Well so far I have been fermenting this cheapy with a brewcraft conversion kit for the last 10 days. It smells as though there is still fermenting activity and the current reading is 1010 (taken today). The OSG was 1043 and I expected to be around 1007 in accordance with the brewer's calculator.
So it looks like I'll be checking the SG tomorrow and will bottle if it hasn't moved off 1010.
So it looks like I'll be checking the SG tomorrow and will bottle if it hasn't moved off 1010.