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More or less at the moment yes, ive done one of my own recipies, an english bitter that was lovely but not bitter enough. Im still learning about different styles of beer and how to use different grains and hops.

I did a beer kit with 1kg of honey and 500g of medium spraymalt, the honey wasnt that obvious just a subtle aftertaste. After a few months in the bottle the honey flavour was really obvious though, the hops had mellowed and allowed the sweetness to come through.

I was thinking either an osh clone or black sheep ale clone but i wanted to see if anybody could come up with anything that peaked my interest, im curious to try something outside my comfort zone

Got a free day tomorrow, going to bottle a batch, keg another and get a brew on. But what to brew? Ive got 10 different hops and 10 different grains all full bags so i can brew pretty much anything. Anybody got any suggestions? If anybody comes up with something that catches my fancy then ill be...

you could use brown sugar if you wanted but priming sugar is a fairly small amount of the total brew so it wont make a massive flavour difference

I dont mind bottling, if im on my own i put a podcast on and the time flies

i would agree, use at least 500g of spraymalt with that kit using all sugar would produce a thin beer

it should be fine if you leave it a few more days, is it a plastic type keg? Not a corny im guessing? I never had much luck with my king keg so ill let somebody else advise you on what to do with that, i have cornys now and loving it.

dont worry about what its doing 4 days in just leave it alone for two weeks and then see what you have

That does sound high, id think more like 1.008 or so so it might not have been finished

Let us know how you get on with this kit, its on my to brew list, Ive heard its similar to leffe blonde

bottle it mate, leave it 2 weeks in the warm and as long as you can in a cool place after, sure it will be fine, mine ended at at 1.010 aswell

As a general rule i dont check anything until 2 weeks have gone by, then i take a hydro reading and see where im at. Try not to mess with it until its settled down, you will only risk infection. As for how long is too long generally longer than a week after fermentation has finished is longer...

Id up the hops a bit but i do like them hoppy, ekg and fuggles work great together though

Looks good, ive got all the ingredients for this so might be one to do in the near future, just bought a couple of cubes too

Just wondering could you do the same thing with a dry packet yeast, i know your not meant to do a starter with dry yeast but is it ok to grow it? If not ill have to wait until my next online order because my lhbs dont stock liquid yeasts anymore

Awesome im definately doing this, havnt tried a liquid yeast yet due to the price.

Ive didnt realise you could do that, do you freeze them or keep them in the fridge? How long do they last?

+1 for that, every brew behaves differently, i just forget about it for two weeks then open it up and take a hydro reading.

What sugar did you add? Try and keep the temp lower if you want a cleaner taste, the coopers mexican cervesa uses a blend of ale and lager yeast i am told so keep it a bit cooler, im not sure about canadian blonde but i brewed that one with 1kg of light dme at about 18-20 and it was lovely.