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Wow, that sounds great TL, thanks for all the extra info too, ie: how each ingredient contributes to the end product....

Am looking forward to seeing how this turns out the first time and then playing around with the ingredients/boil times etc with future brew as I try and make my idea of a perfect ...

Absolutely, that would be great thanks TL

Thanks TL for your informative reply. Very helpful.

So the next bit - putting all this info into a recipe with instructions. Based on rwh's reply to another of my posts, I have tried to put together as much of this as I understand, and therefore it is proably mostly wrong!........

__kg barley ...

Hi all,

am after a recipe for a Guinness clone which is nothing like Guinness draught, but more like the 'proper' Guinness we get from the bar tap in Australia, or ideally more like the real stuff you get in Ireland. If the recipe produces the nice creamy head of Boonies LCPA that everyone goes on ...

Why not get familiar with some of the online HB stores that will deliver LLME etc to your door?

Hi scblack,

thanks for the recipe - looks better than the one I dug up!

Just a few questions for you all:-
1/ is there better quality ingredients that could be used for this recipe? (given the sticky 'simple things that make your home brew better' suggests not using brew enhancers and dextrose and ...

Hi all,
found this recipe on brewcraft for Redback:-

Beermakers Bavarian Wheat Beer Kit
Brewblend #10
Malt Extract n/a
Yeast - Safwheat
Other Stuff - 10g Saaz hop pellets. Simmer in a cup of water for 2 min then stand for 10 min before straining into beer mixture.

Can someone turn this recipe into ...

re: step two - what temp range do you let your 100g of LDME in 1L water cool to?

Hey Phil,
never mind trying to explain the Tooheys tap, what about the presence of something VB on top of the fridge! It's a wonder your brews haven't been infected by these cheap and nasty commercial brews in their vicinity !!!!

Being a marine scientist I feel a special affiliation with this beer (silly, but that's just me!).

It doesn't taste or feel like a top notch beer, but it tastes fine, quenches a thirst, and for $12 six-pack, you really are getting what you pay for - a reasonable beer at a reasonable price. I would ...

Ok, thanks rwh, that makes sense.

I've been studying home brewing for about 6 months now so get the gist of it, but there are so many small questions I keep coming up against. For example I thought bulk priming was only something you do if you're kegging (don't know what I read to give me that idea ...

Firstly, what's the difference between priming your bottles with dextrose as opposed to ordinary white sugar (apart from price) ?

Secondly, what is one supposed to make of this :-

'Whether you prime is up to you. We've found that using a full measure (about a teaspoon) of sugar in a 750ml bottle ...

Hi all,

am at the stage where I'm super keen on brewing, have been reading heaps about it, but haven't actually gone out and bought anything yet.

Anyways, I was wondering how to keep your fermenter at a constant temperature whilst your beer is brewing.

I intend setting up in my garage which is ...