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I also have two muntons hopped beer kit cans I would never otherwise use so I came up with two recipe ideas ... 1 can muntons blonde extract kit (end of boil) .5 lb dark dry malt extract .5 lb biscuit malt .5 lb crystal 75 .5 lb choc malt 1oz @ 60 min hallertau 1oz @ 12 min hallertau Nottingham...

Thanks for the ideas! I like the idea of making a small batch ... I also have a few prehopped extract cans of muntons blonde and muntons pilsner that I never got around to making ... Could I make one of those, say, the pilsner and boil with some of the chocolate malt and hallertau? Would that...

I also have access to corn sugar ... I'm worried I don't have enough malt/fermentables for a 5-gal batch...

1 lb muntons light dme 1 lb muntons dark dme 1 lb choc malt 1 lb biscuit malt 2 lb crystal malt 2oz cascade pellets 2oz hallertau pellets Tons of Nottingham ale dry yeast from danstar Anything I can make with any combination of this?

I have some ingredients inherited from a friend; I normally just brew with festa or brewhouse full wort kits, so I want to try an all grain or at least partial, but I have just a few ingredient and no access to a homebrew store until August. Here's what I have ...

Bottling a generously cascade hopped steam beer (cal common).... Why avoid lagers just my lagering setup isn't finished yet? Hybrid beers have feelings too!

Someone gave me a can of muntons blonde as a gift and I would like to hack it to make something interesting. I'm in a remote rural area so i have to make a special trip to edmonton to have more selection of hops and other potential ingredients, so does anyone have any recipe suggestions?

I use a large food grade funnel -- the largest that will fit into the carboy, and cut the narrowest end of the funnel off to make a wider exit. but I also mash half of the fruit until it is almost juice and leave the other half just loosely crushed. I fill the funnel with the berry and mash mix...

Yes ....996... Not 096.... Lol.. Typo went unnoticed

I checked my hydrometer and water is 0.096... Lol ok new hydrometer needed... But all the beers all three beers I still have sitting on the yeast cakes are still cloyingly sweet.. But I suppose I'm safe to bottle and age without fear of bottle bombs now... I feel stupid.

Yes, I have tried a few different yeast methods but no improvements. I was trying to fix my errors... I have a lager as well at 1.022 so I want to experiment ... Pitch new yeast ... Swirl it.. Warm it... 35 days on the yeast cake now that was so active the first three days I had a mess to clean...

Agitation and splashing in the carboy. I roll it around and shake it back and forth for 10-15 minutes. Rocking it back and forth used to work 10 yrs ago when I had no problems... This is really baffling me... I have a pale ale that stuck at 1.026 after three days.. Stuck there for a week and...

I've taken a ten year hiatus from home brewing and have started with some extract, some all-grain, and a premade 23L bag of microbrew wort but I have not been able to get the fg for any below 1.022 ... Some eng pale ales, some American pale ales, and ipa, a red ale... All started between 50-52...

A Russian imperial stout?

Boddingtons gold cream ale?