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Did you ever figure this out? Stone's release of the Pale Ale recipe got me talking to a mate about this book and then I found this post. I asked a similar question a little while back for one of the recipes in the book. My approach was to use Beer Alchemy (I'm a mac guy). I assumed that the...

Hey. Yeah I did end up brewing it. Served it at a man night with 5 other blokes and we kicked the keg in about 4 hours. It was really good. I went pretty hard on the salt in the mask hand kettle...not quite as heavy handed as the book suggests though. And I carbonated to 2 vol. with priming...

I recently read a blog about something like this on brulosophy (.com I think). But instead of rep itching dregs of a starter, create a bigger starter and keep a quart aside before pitching to your wort. Same theory, the yeast at starter is never going to be as stressed as a washed yeast from a...

I'm sure this is on here somewhere, but I can't find it. I've finally got my brewing kit out of storage after moving into our new house. In my time between houses I read Mitch Steele's IPA: Brewing Techniques...Great book, especially love the look of all the historical IPA. So, I've decided...

Looks good. I just kegged my oatmeal stout last night as well. Looking forward to getting into it in a week or so.

Currently sitting in Chch airport and thought I'd have a quick look on the forum... Low and behold... More kiwis! I'm in Wellington. Brew AG, mainly ales, but have tried a lager and recently did my first 10 gallon brew... An oatmeal stout. Have 2 kegs and will bottle from there if required...

Awesome - thanks for the feedback. The Thames Valley yeast has been really good so far. I've brewed two bitters and a brown ale with it so far and the brown ale in particular is magic. I've generally tried to avoid liquid yeast because they're so expensive out here!! I've always used S-04...

So...I brewed this on Sunday. I've got to say, this was potentially the smoothest brew day I've had in the short time I've been brewing all grain. I hit all my temps. The only downer was that at the end of the boil I lost about 4L (just over a gallon) to trub. So I ended up with 18L in the...

Thanks for all the feedback guys. I'm potentially over thinking this, but I've had a reshuffle of my hops. Moved the Centennial to the start of the boil to get a little more out of it, shifted the simcoe to later and introduced a little cascade into the boil, rather than having it all in the...

Interesting. I love the Amarillo and cascade aroma! What wold you put in place of simcoe in bittering? We haven't been able to get Amarillo or simcoe out here in the last 18 months, so this will be my fist time brewing with them. I'm in Wellington. Bottom of the North Island. Where about...

Hey everyone, First post, but I've been reading the forums for about a year now. I'm a home brewer out here in New Zealand and we've got an Amateur Brewers West Coast IPA Challenge coming up. So I've decided to enter...the winner gets their beer brewed professionally and sold in a local...