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ha ha another one for the darkside! I remember my first brew. Riddled with many mistakes too mate so don't worry about that. You wont make em again (just find new ones). It sounds like u did a fair job. Not sure about the lack of boiling though. did u say it simmered? if so it should be ok, i...

cheers for your advice boys- a few suggested explanations always help when I mourn the loss of 23litres.

cheers BB that seems like sound advice. I knew the water was a bit crappy but hadnt thought much of it. Now you mention it, it has been two paler ales that have one wrong, my xmas porter was a beast. back to good old metabisulphate instead for the sanitize then I think in the future. its good...

Whats crs? and no I didn't add a tablet- I do have some though. should I be using them at some point

I have made them like this before without issue 4 kg MO .5 kg amber 30g progress first wort 40 g magnum ( I like it bitter) 60 min boil 120g target as the boiler went off ( I was hoping for a really hoppy aroma)- all hops taken out 20 min later brewed with muntons gold yeast after waiting...

cant for the lifew of me work out where im going wrong here. I have lost 2 brews to the same 'mistake' now and im getting upset about loosing all this beer. im getting the strength, and the bitterness (perhaps too much). not got any of the hop aroma coming through. its replaced by something...

I just used a white labs yeast in the latest brew. It came in a cool little screw top test tube thingy and seemed to have a wee bit of beer with a chunk of cake underneath it. I think it would have looked nice in the fridge So, in my ignorance now that the brew is done and a lovely cake formed...

Its not a beer I ever had, I prefer something a fair bit stronger myself. However, I like the look of the recipe. It looks right up my street, strong and bitter. My latest brew (only my second) had a similar amount of grain to that involved, mainly pale and I got an og of 1.060 from 6kg (was...

Welcome, welcome mr. barley Enjoy making the kits. Im a recent convert to the all grain side of things and I'm not looking back. Be careful new boy, these boys welcomed me to the dark side a few weeks back, now I know what they mean, brewing is truly an addiction!

yeah i have a batch that will go in the pressure barrell just as i go away for a while. It wont get moved to the chilled cellar for well over a week after its out into a primed barrell. Will this be ok?

as was suggested to me on this very forum, try the brew mate software. Like everyone is getiing at here things vary a lot by style and preference but i found that in writing recipes on the laptop i could let the software guide me on grains, hops, colour, bitterness, balance etc. And then of...

the mash and the boil were both 60 min. The first batch of the marynka,s went as fwh prior to the magnums in the boil. Its currently bubbling away like some sort of deranged creature sitting there in the corner. The marynkas have an alpha acid value of 7.4% so hopefully added a bit of bitter...

just finished boiling ag#2 an american brown ale that i designed in the brewmate program went as follows a total of 6kg of grain 48% Golden Promise Malt 3kg 32% Maris Otter Malt 2kg 16% Crystal 90 1kg 4% Flaked Corn 250g 0.9 g/L Marynka (7.4% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (First Wort)20g 1.1 g/L Magnum...

welcome and nice work. i like that you went the whole hog with malting your own! im sure its just a complete ball ache but i would be interested to know how you did it. Ade O

thanks for the advice guys. what u think of the hops?

yeah? should i swap some out for some more pale or just use less?

so here's the plan for ag#2 - Im just wondering what folk think, ag#1 went ok but could have been better, so i want this to be as smooth as it can. I want it to be at least 4.5%abv. Do I have enough grain planned? 3000g golden promise 1000g low colour crystal malt thinking 90min at 66c Followed...

thank you all, i think im gonna like the dark side. got a date with 4kg of grain, some magnums and some marynka's. first FWH attempt coming up

As for the early stages i did a 1.5hr mash (3.5kg grains, small amound of flaked maize and 12l water). I followed this with an hours boil (but it took 45min to come upto boil) with goldings in for an hour and some fuggles 15min from the end. I let it cool before throwing in the activated wyeast...

Im all grain newbie. only done one so far after several kit related experiments. its come out extremely pale and with an OG of 1.033 I havent got hopes of massive alcohol content. Its based on the recipe for a copy of a shepards neame beer from dave lines book (what a revelation that lil baby...