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Ok here we go, I have been brewing my own spirits for years but I'm just starting to enjoy my beers.. I haven't tasted enough different types of beers to know what I really like. But I know that I really enjoy the malty, sweet (not too bitter) types of beers..

I'm wondering if someone could give me some pointers as to what types I might enjoy.. Perhaps a commercial example of it and a recipe for the homebrew.. I enjoy spending time making things like this from scratch but I don't want to make 28 tallies of something I don't particularly like..

Thanks in advance for any help
Warwick

James Squire Amber Ale might be a good starting point.. lovely and malty, not very bitter.

Not sure how to put in a link to another thread (maybe someone can help )

Under "The Beer You Buy" topic there's a thread, "Looking For Advice on Beer" - there's some good advice given to a "spirit-man" about what he might like.

My advice is to try a dubbel - dark, Belgian, malty and sweet - yummy. I haven't tried the Chimay (red bottle) that is common over here, but fell in love with Westmalle Dubbel while I was in Belgium a while ago.

Tourist wrote:Not sure how to put in a link to another thread (maybe someone can help )

Under "The Beer You Buy" topic there's a thread, "Looking For Advice on Beer" - there's some good advice given to a "spirit-man" about what he might like.

My advice is to try a dubbel - dark, Belgian, malty and sweet - yummy. I haven't tried the Chimay (red bottle) that is common over here, but fell in love with Westmalle Dubbel while I was in Belgium a while ago.

http://www.homebrewandbeer.com/forum/vi ... ght=advice

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Anyway, back to topic....

Standard Home Brew that I reckon you would like is a
Morgans Australian Draught
1.5 kg of Morgans Pale Malt (Liquid)
Hops Teabag/ Pellets boiled for 15 Minutes...Amarillo, Cascade or Hallertau
Make to 22-23 Litres

For a Commercial beer, James Squire Golden Ale is nice.

Cheers

Boonie

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leahy268 wrote:Ok here we go, I have been brewing my own spirits for years but I'm just starting to enjoy my beers.. I haven't tasted enough different types of beers to know what I really like. But I know that I really enjoy the malty, sweet (not too bitter) types of beers..

I'm wondering if someone could give me some pointers as to what types I might enjoy.. Perhaps a commercial example of it and a recipe for the homebrew.. I enjoy spending time making things like this from scratch but I don't want to make 28 tallies of something I don't particularly like..

Thanks in advance for any help
Warwick

G'day Warwick - I'll make a wild assumption that you've actually had a nice beer in the past. What was the brandname of that beer or any other beer that you'd like to replicate? There are a $hitload of malty, sweet, not too bitter beers around the world...
Cheers,
TL

Yes I've tasted a few that I enjoy, but I guess I feel that there must be better.. Most that I've tasted taste not quite right to me.. Either too bitter or not enough malt or something.. The beer that I've enjoyed the most ever was a south african beer that I can never remember the name of.. One of my mates introduced me to it years ago and now I don't see a lot of him since he lives in melbourne and I still live in Toowoomba qld..

Ok well someone suggested James Squire Amber Ale so this afternoon I bought a six pack of that and am just sitting back enjoying my first one of those.. and once of again I'm sitting here going hmm yeah it's ok.. It's a little bitter for my tastes.. In the past couple of weeks I have tasted quite a few to give me a bit of an idea of what styles I would like although this is the first Ale out of those.. I did enjoy steinlager although it didn't have much taste or aroma to me.. Guinness was very tasty, lovely and complex but was very very bitter although it was an extra stout guiness. (I'm only just starting to work out what these words mean ) Mind you as i'm gettting further through the James squire it's starting to taste better and better although that could be just the alcohol speaking

Perhaps that was rambling or perhaps people might have a better idea of what i'm looking for in a drink. My first batch of beer was just a kit, qld lager it's called if anyone has tried it and I really enjoyed that.. Not a big beer drinker but managed to polish off (with a little help) an entire batch in a month.. Normally the ammount of beer that would last me all summer..

Does this help people understand what i'm looking for??

thanks again guys..

if you want low bitterness and you're working with kits, start with a coopers' lager, cerveza or canadian blonde.. from what i recall they're all pretty low bitterness. to the kit, add 1.5kg of light dry malt. that oughta satisfy the hunger for malty-not-bitter home brew hehe. the alcohol will come out at around 5.5% at a guess for a 23lt brew.

you could also drop the brew down to around 18lt to get around 7%abv and a richer flavour.

all that said and done though, if you liked the qld lager, it would only get better if you used malt instead of sugar (assuming you used sugar).

cheers,
chris

I will definitely try it with malt the next time although this last brew doesn't appear to have turned out very well so far. I used the advice on this website and only used half a teaspoon of sugar per bottle to prime them and have so far found that the bottles i've drank have absolutely no head and taste very wrong to be honest.. I'm tempted to poor them out and start again.. The first batch was lovely and clear and tasted very nice. Just sweet enough and not too bitter. These ones just taste bad.. I'm sorry I'm not experienced enough to describe it any better than that.. I may however try it again with malt instead of sugar. But i'm going to leave these a couple of more weeks to see if they improve..

If not I will watch them go down the plug with a tear in my eye..

PS the James Squire is getting nicer and nicer now that i'm onto my fourth(cheap drinker lol)

Warwick

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From your description, I have a feeling that you like sweet beers.

I am just going to check my recipes to see what was sweeeeeeeeeet beer (Cue Homer voice)

12/9/2006 Brewed
Coopers Mexican
1kg Dextrose
Standard Yeast from Can
Yeast put in Parra Stein (starter)with temp at 26 degrees
Fresh NZ 'Belgian" Saaz Cone 2.5 teaspoons boiled for 15 Minutes and strained
Racked 17/9/2006
Extra 4 teaspoons of Saaz Cone (chunks in...not strained)
Racked 10/10/06 to remove and residual chunks
Bottled 11-Oct-06

Very sweet beer.

You would not have to brew as long as I did.
I'd brew for one week, rack and dry hop for 1 week and bottle.
2 weeks tops......or if you are a real hurry, you could brew for 4 days and rack(dry hop at the same time) and bottle on the 7th-8th day, as long as the FG was stable, and it brewed well.

This is nice for a Dextrose beer. I have tried the Coopers Mex with malt and it is ordinary.

Malt is better in other Kits. Malt is better all round really , but give this one a go in the future, you will like it.....I hope

Cheers

Boonie