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Hi,

Been scanning these forums for quite a while now and love them. Just about to start my sixth brew and was just after some advise around hops and boiling etc. I have the following ingredients and was wondering what peoples thoughts were on the best way to go about it, ie. how long to boil hops etc?

Malt Shovel Pale Ale Can
1kg Brewcraft Brewblend #15
500g Light Malt Extract
50gm Amarillo

Does any one have any advice?

Thanks.

boil the brew blend and malt in a pot with 3 litres of water for 30 mins and add 25gm amarillo at 20 mins and 25gm at 0 mins add the kit at flame out and disolve properly then add 5 litres of cold water to your fermenter, add the hot ingredients and make up to 22 litres ( might wanna cool the pot for a bit after flame out in the sink with some cold tap water) pitch yeast and try and keep it around the 18-20*c mark untill fermented......

Thanks for the reply. Should I strain the contents into the fermenter? Or just put the whole lot in?

Thats up to you but it makes no diffrerence as the hops will just settle out at the bottom of your fermenter anyway but you can strain if you want

Cool thanks for that. Will give it a crack and see how I go. Might wait until the weather cools down on Wednesday first!

If it was me, I'd add the lot and not strain since you're only doing a 30 minute boil - assuming you follow lethal's good advice. If it turns out too strong, hop-wise (personally, you can't overdo Amarillo!!) then strain it when you next make a batch.

Cheers,
TL