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Has anyone got a recipe for a Berliner Kinder pilsner, or something in the same ilk? :hmm:

Has anyone got a recipe for a Berliner Kinderling pilsner, or something in the same ilk? :hmm:

Nice to have a compliment AM :thumb: To be honest I got the temperature way out from my trial run,so ended up with a mash with 2 litres more hot water (which I deducted from the top-up volume) than I was supposed to as I compensated for temperature.I'm beginning to think that I'll duplicate the...

Thanks guys. To clarify...whilst emptying to secondary I took some of the primary sediment with some liquid and it's fermenting slowly under airlock in a demi-john.

I have a bit of a dilemma - brewing a Belgian and moving to secondary which needs to sit on its trub and be cold conditioned at 4c for a month before bottling (which means the yeast will not survive?). I want to use the yeast for my next brew - am I better off in syphoning some yeast cake from...

What's the opinion out there if your batch sparging and near the end of the second run (with maximum water used) the brix is 7 - do you 1. leave alone as your target is met 2. go boil the kettle real quick and squeeze some more wort till it falls to 4 (sg 1.016)? :wha:

I'd be inclined to start off with a stiff mix at 45c then add small amounts of hotter water (as 80+c) until you reach your target, and repeat the process till you reach your final stage temperature - worth a thought :thumb: ;)

Thanks for that; what I've been doing is following a recipe from a clone brews book, but I'll improvise more next time,Cheers :thumb: Thanks for the comment Phettebs - nice to finally get off the ground :grin: All the Best,Cwrw

Cheers! ;)

To give you a good idea I've got an electrim emmersion heater which is 75 watts and that is geared up for standard 5 gallon brews - Moley's right about the set-up, though what I've done is instead of using my bucket I've gone for drilling a rubber bung and running the cable through this in my 4...

Thanks all .....it's really encouraging to hear from you and great for my motivation to start planning my next beer :clap: - I reckon I'll crank out a Chimay White in my next venture....a bit different, so why not! Good to belong to a motley crew of rogues! :drink:

Thanks for all the supportive comments ....it's much appreciated! :thumb: I'm sure you've all been through the baptism of fire and scalded your hands (quite literally!) and are well familiar with the anticipation of the birth of a baby beer .....well she's got a lot of collic at the moment and...

Just done my first AG brew today (a Duvel style ale)- took 8 hours till all was cleaned and put away! I hope to improve on this next time as I had one or two hiccups, one concerning a shortfall of boil water as my grains absorbed more than the forum calculator gave and I also c**ked up with the...

I think I'm committed now .....I could use a bit of luck,Cheers :cheers:

Thanks Evanvine :thumb:

I don't know if I'm doing it all wrong but I've started to grow some yeast from a year old 500ml bottle of devil ale with only the inclusion of some pre-boiled sugar solution with common yeast nutrient.It seems to be doing ok and I'm going to build up to a litre over the next 2-3 days.Will this...

So, for the totally AG unitiated (and unconventional) would it be a viable approach to Mash for 90 minutes and boil for 70 minutes (doing a belgian ale) for a first go? I'm starting in the next 5 days! :whistle:

Interesting item Rabbie! Overnight my thoughts on a different yeast to use have changed as my Brewferm devil yeast clone has just reanimated ..."it's alive"! This is after a duvel yeast cloning failure on which I dumped this afterthought - but it seems to be working at the moment.Hopefully I'll...

What would be the outcome if you fermented a beer as a Duvel clone with WB-06 yeast....would it be a minger,lacklustre or close to the mark...any thoughts? :hmm:

Cheers for that Aleman :thumb: