Adapted Kit Recipes.

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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by timbo41 » Sun Apr 13, 2014 7:31 pm

Gotta love coopers kits..... here's a repeat of kit mods, not their official site I don't think, for those who nay have missed it before

http://www.aussiehomebrewing.com/Custom ... opers.html
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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by themadhippy » Wed Apr 23, 2014 2:29 pm

Just kegged this and ,well it dont realy taste of anything,theres a good bitterness that sort of makes you step back,and anice bit of warmth,finished at 1014 so just over 6% i think.hopefully with a few days in barrel it might start to taste of something.
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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by wanus » Thu Apr 24, 2014 6:41 pm

Hello did you mix the 2 `full` tins together,i presume you did cos you added 2 yeast packs!Sounds gud man.
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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by themadhippy » Thu Apr 24, 2014 6:53 pm

yep,just chucked both tins into the fermenting bucket
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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by wanus » Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:10 am

I`ll watch this space !!!
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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by wanus » Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:32 am

Just goin back to the brew i did on page 24.Am about to go in the kitchen and do wot i hope is a final tweak on my next batch.Am gonna add some orange zest and hopefully this will give it a greater taste to compliment the finish i think the mollasses give(Creme brulee,sounds sweet but it aint)Also my last batch i left for 9 week b4 i tapped the keg and there was a definite change in me walkin sideways.
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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by wanus » Sun Apr 27, 2014 11:39 am

AllvinStraight wrote:hi,

I'm 6 days into primary fermentation of my 1st ever brew, I've gone with coopers brewmaster IPA as my 1st beer(which seems to be very popular choice amongst newbies) and I've just added some dry hops(1x12g goldings hop tea/with teabag and 50g east Kent goldings dry hops in muslin bag) to give it a bit of a lift in flavour(hopefully in a good way!) primary fermentation seems to have now slowed down to a crawling pace so hopfully I can transfer it to my 'top tap king keg' in a few days(and also fill half a dozen or so 500ml bottles to put aside)



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Hello,i hope your 1st brew turns out ok and you keep goin.I`m about to start my 5th ever brew and have been tweakin a wilkos bitter kit from the start.Like yourself i keg but always bottle a few as well.Good luck =D>
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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by timbo41 » Tue Apr 29, 2014 10:38 am

Last night just for giggles...
Finlandia Bitter
1kilo dextrose
75°c steep 500g each crystal wheat malt and caramalt...30 mins
23 litre
Pitched with yeast slurry from a Ditch's Special Reserve(coopers strain # Australian ale yeast ( wlp 009?)
Will primary a week, then MM supplied some first gold pellets, which I intend to dry hop with
OG 1042... a nice session beer
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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by timbo41 » Tue Apr 29, 2014 10:39 am

neilmcca wrote:I'm doing a Wilko Cerveza very soon, and was looking for advice to improve it a little,

was thinking of using 500g of light spraymalt, 500g of dextrose, a lager yeast, and a hop tea to improve its flavour a bit ( i believe it isn't that impressive as it is :? )

I have some hops in my freezer, chinook, hersbrucker, CF103 Experimental Hop (4.9% Alpha Described as peppery,spicy and floral), Willamette, first gold,
any suggestions would be appreciated, might dry hop some too.
I like the sound of the experimental hop but i think chinook is favorite,



Probably way too late, but first gold smells fantastic

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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by timbo41 » Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:42 am

timbo41 wrote:Last night just for giggles...
Finlandia Bitter
1kilo dextrose
75°c steep 500g each crystal wheat malt and caramalt...30 mins
23 litre
Pitched with yeast slurry from a Ditch's Special Reserve(coopers strain # Australian ale yeast ( wlp 009?)
Will primary a week, then MM supplied some first gold pellets, which I intend to dry hop with
OG 1042... a nice session beer



Bloody hell....24 hrs later dropped to 1018
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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by themadhippy » Thu May 01, 2014 8:42 pm

Ladies and gentlemen i present to you Wilkos, oil city stout
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soak 500 g choclate malt ,250 g black malt,250 roast barley and 150g crystal malt in 10 litres of water held at 67c for an hour,remove grains and top up to 20 litres and bring to boil,chuck in 30g of challanger boil for 15 minutes,add 30g of first gold,1 kilo of dried malt extract,a tin of treacle and the 3 wilkos kits, boil for another 15 minutes.cool to 20c ,pour into fermenter,add the 3 yeast sachets,light the blue touch paper and await the spew.The hop addions according to beer engine add 58 ibu's,starting gravity 1112 about 17 litres in the bucket
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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by neilmcca » Thu May 01, 2014 9:49 pm

Christ on a bike !

that looks mental ... better get the mop ready :shock:

17 litres though ? i did an RIS to 23 and that came out at 14%, what are u looking at for yours ?

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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by themadhippy » Thu May 01, 2014 10:03 pm

better get the mop ready
or leave the fermentor in the bath
what are u looking at for yours
pass :D if it gets to down to 1015 then thats around the 12% mark,that'll do nicley
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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by simple one » Thu May 01, 2014 10:34 pm

Is this the first time you have brewed this?

I would be scared.

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Re: Adapted Kit Recipes.

Post by themadhippy » Thu May 01, 2014 10:55 pm

is this the first time you have brewed this?
yep
I would be scared.
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