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Multigrain Lager

Made this one some time ago, will check and update the details according to the book at home.

1 can Cooper's Bavarian Lager (now deceased)

500g dextrose

500g light DME

500g dry wheat extract

kit yeast (apparently a saflager)

tasted very suspect for about 6 months, so allowed to be neglected in a dusty cornerof uner-the-house

at about 18 months of age, has suddenly turned into a really nice crisp lager.not perfect - head dissipates quickly, not much aroma - but certainly very quaffable.

When in doubt, leave it alone for 6 months

Old Rummy

this was an attempt to emulate the James Squire Rum Rebellion Porter, a porter aged in old rum barrels.

Toohey's Dark Ale kit

1 kg light DME

don't think I added any extra hops

1 bag of rum infused oak chips, boiled about 10 minutes, added to primary.

kit yeast.

tasted well weird for about 18 months in the bottle, the suddenly became a very smooth dark ale with vanilla-y tones, perhaps a little bland.

next time, I'd consider 1) using plain oak chips soaked in rum (or bourbon), and adding to late primary or racking for a secondary, AND putting in a weighted bag; 2) beefing up the hops a bit, prob just some more bittering. don't see any problem with sticking with Toohey's dark tin 

OK, been a while.

The Cascade GHL got ditched, either oxidised or infected, can't remember which now.

More recent brews have been:

The Leap Year Stout (started on 29/2/2008)

1 can Cooper's stout

1 can Cooper's Irish stout

23 L

easy peasy

The result: bitter as buggery. Think I'll wait a while yet for this one, see if the hops settle a bit

Double Porter

Recipe filched from the Cascade homebrew website

2 cans cascade Porter

 2 kgs light DME

20 g Saaz pellets boiled for 2 mins

a roughly 12% monster that you could drink all day, you just could never drive anywhere

Its winter, so gotta get some lagers/pilses down soon

Hooray

at long last, back to brewing again, hard to find time lately, but managed to get two down in a frantic evening, hoping that the O wouldn't wake up. It's still pretty cool, about 14 C under the stairs, so still have time for a lager or two before it warms up. I've just about run out of Pales, so I figured a nice ale was in order as well.

Brew #1 20/10/2007

Cascade Golden Harvest Lager kit

1 kg LHBS light dried malt extract

500g Brigalow dextrose

10 g Saaz hop pellets steeped in just-boiled water for ~ 2 minutes

plonk the lot into 23L fermenter

Activated Saflager yeast (7g satchel)

At 24 hours, no bubbles, but  the fermenter has a crap seal...

d0 SG= 1.046  T= 14C 

Brew#2 20/10/2007

Cooper's Australian Pale Ale Kit

1 kg LHBS Light dried malt extract

500g Brigalow dextrose

250g 60L Crystal malt (grind in coffee grinder, contain in muslin, place in saucepan, slowly raise to 95C over about an hour)

14 g East Kent Goldings hop pellets, last 10 minutes of grain steeping

activated Cooper's Australian Sparkling Ale yeast (out of date, but proven)

lobbed into fermenter.

no action first thing the next morning, but putting on belt heater and putting blu-tak around airlock o-ring gave rise to nice, slow, satisfying bubbling.

d0 T= 24C   SG = 1.045 

d1 T= 20c  

Other plans include a two can stout (Cooper's stout, and cooper's irish stout, with some chocolate grain), a honey porter, and using an old ginger beer kit for fermentables with a bitter tin