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Looks good, how much carafa I would i need to use to substitute it for carafa III? Or could i add some roasted barley for colour?

Theres no need to add anything else, for whatever reason you just havnt got an accurate reading, if you have added 1kg of brewing sugar then theres plenty in there, it will turn out around 4-4.5% i would imagine maybe a little more as you brewed it short.

Havnt got any hops, black ipa sounds good. The grains are left over mainly from a stout and a schwartzbier and ive just done a stout mashkit so would rather not do a stout again yet, unless it was a weird and wonderful brew or something that needs a heap of ageing.

I have a lot of odds and ends of grains that i could use what could i make out of them, any unusual or interesting ideas? i have Lots of maris otter chocolate malt roasted barley carafa special I crystal malt Tiny bit of munich malt Small amount of pilsner malt I havnt weighed any of them but...

Why were you aiming for 19l? Its a 23l kit so thats quite a bit short, i definately wouldnt have panicked with 21l and taking 2l out after mixing will have done nothing but waste beer. Having said that you wont have ruined anything, you will end up with a decent beer and youll have an idea of...

That how i did maxi biab, i used a 19l pot usually with 4-5k grainbills so mashed with around 14l of water. For the sparge i would stick the grainbag in a fv flatten it out a bit and pour a kettle of water over it slowly then drain it and add to pot. I did that with 3 kettles of water or until i...

10 litre pot is the minimum required, the more volume you can boil the better.

agreed, leave them another week indoors and then to somewhere cool, then leave them as long as you can bear it before drinking.

Will do, ill probably bottle it as my kegs are full now and i dont drink that fast. Just keeping an eye on it because stouts can go a bit mental.

I know how you feel, i just had my first few pints from my corny set up last night, its really great hope you enjoy it.

Ive ended up with around 20.5 litres at 1.044 so i hit my target OG just ended up with a little less beer, overall im pretty happy for my first attempt with this method.

Sanitizing started at 8.30 i soaked everything in oxiclean rinsed and starsanned, wanted to be extra careful as ive had a couple of infections lately. Kegged my old peculiar clone while everything was soaking I brewed this kit aswell while the boil was going was going cheap at the shop and...

Took this pic a while back and forgot to post it, all the beer is gone now it was fantastic. Extremely light and clean tasting, a little darker than i was expecting which is probably due to the 2 hour mash. The carbonation was great, enough to kick up some of the delicate hop aroma and give it a...

Just tested my new boiler with water, takes a while to get going but holds a nice boil. Mash tun is cleaned and ready to go all checked for leaks, sausage casserole in the slow cooker so i dont have to think about cooking while im brewing, this might be my most organised brewday yet!

that should be better then 23l is what the instructions say to do. Sure it will be a good pint

How cold are your sheds? you could pitch high and still ferment at around 9c

Brewing up this afternoon, ill take loads of pictures as i go, just prepping the brew area now and having a cup of joe.

i usually put my dme in first with the hot water as i find its the steam that clumps it not the hot water

Did all that mate, its had lager in it for 5 days now with 10psi on it in a fridge at 3-5c. Really looking forward to trying it

I will be brewing this tomorrow (wednesday) it will be the first all grain ive done using a mash tun and boiler rather than my maxi BIAB method. 3140g Maris otter 895g Flaked barley 445g Roasted barley 36g Target at 60mins 1 protofloc tablet 15mins safale 04 Will mash the above grains at 66c...