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This article is taken from www.irishcraftbrewer.com and was written by Sean Billings, i hope it explains the process better than i can for anybody who's interested. Also i hope he doesn't mind me taking it and posting it here All grain brewing is the process of making beer from malted barley, hops, ...

Oh dear!! Can you write your recipes in a stupid fairy friendly format please? I'd like to try making this but i can't work out the brewers code (i know that everything stands for something...). Thankyou! Pale Malt 5.08kg Roasted Barley 470g Black Treacle 260g (upped to 300g) Wheat Malt 240g Chocol...

Nice smell of treacle this morning, little bit of cleaning up to do

Chickenlady wrote:Wot?

Despite not understanding most of the above, it sounds intriguing!

If i can clear it up in any way for you just tell me what part you don't understand and i'll give it my best shot

25 litres
OG1055
Eff 70%
86 EBC 52 IBU
estimated 5.6% ABV

Pale Malt 5.08kg
Roasted Barley 470g
Black Treacle 260g (upped to 300g)
Wheat Malt 240g
Chocolate Malt 160g

Mash 68C for 60 mins

Northdown 60g 60mins

Boil 60mins

Yeast 2x S-04

Firstly i steep the grains at between 66-68 degree C for 60 mins to extract the sugar from the grains. Then (sparge) separate the spent grains from the sugary water (wort). The wort is then added to a boiler and brought to the boil then i add the first hops (the bittering hops) this is then boiled f...

Sorry guys i did an edit, hope it clears things up a bit, feel free to ask any questions if i haven't

Millymollymandy wrote:Hi and welcome - if you click on View more Emoticons (to the left of the screen when you are posting a reply) there are more there than you can possibly use!

mmmm obviously my humour was wasted

This is my house ale Maris Otter 5.5kg (pale base malt) Chocolate malt 200g Crystal malt 350g Carapils malt 250g 60 min hops (at the start of the boil) 27 g Syrian Goldings hops 25grm Fuggles hops 15 min hops (15 mins before the end of the 60 min boil) 30 g Fuggles hops 30 g Syrian Goldings hops 1 w...

Hello! Welcome to the forum. :cheers: I've just bought my bf a home-brewing kit for his birthday (he's a big real ale fan) so doubtless I'll be asking you for advice at various points! Sure anything i can help with, by the way i think the forum could do with a few more emoticons :lol: :lol: :lol: :...

Hi i'm AT i'm an all grain brewer from Ireland, so far i only brew ales but i'm looking for the inspiration to start brewing wines