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All of the comments are music to my ears! I thought everyone will be like : "You have to use standard recipes" or "You will not be brewing according to a style and this is wrong". But I guess, at the end of the day, all beers can be fit into a certain style of beer one way or another. When cooking, ...

Experimenting on your own

Hi, I have done two BIAB's where I created my own recipes with what I had. Both came out really great and I am very pleased! My question is the following : Can one really make a bad beer? I think I need to mention though that I adhere to the maximum percentages of grain allowed in a brew (dark malt ...

Wow, the response exceeded my expectations! Thank you for everyone's advice! One of the LHBS owners in Johannesburg told me that he sells brew stuff because it is his passion and he will " ... never make money off it". But, as I mentioned, ALL LHBS are there so that is probably why. When talking abo...

Home Brew Shop

In South Africa, malts, hops, yeast ... in fact everything home brew related , are sold out of home brew shops(HBS) in Johannesburg. My problem is that my LHBS is 500km from me. One can order online, but, because of the weights involved it costs A LOT of money on postage (and these LHBS owners load ...

Thank you Joshua, I figured I am going to try it anyway! I am also going for a Rooibos tea beer this weekend ... I live in the country where it originates : South Africa (and not Africa as I have seen all over the internets :angry: ) so I have ample, cheap supply!

Thank you Hashie, I will increase the hops to 11g each. As I understand, smoked malt can be used as a base malt as well (it depends on how smoky you want your beer). I read somewhere that in Scotland all malts were dried over smoke fires in the past, and as such, all malts were "smoked" malts. I may...

Smoked Beer

I have entered the following into Beersmith with ingredients I have available : (Beersmith has scaled the recipe to Mini-BIAB) 1kg Pale Malt (2 Row) 33.1% 1kg Smoked Malt 33.1% 0.72kg Carared 24% 0.15kg Munich I 5% 0.14kg Chocolate Malt 4.8% Hops : 5g Amarillo [8.50%] at 60min 5g Amarillo [8.50%] at...

Sesame Seeds

Hi All,

I made some sesame seed bars last night and I was wondering ... could this be used in beer? I think toasted sesame seeds could impart a nice flavour to a brew. Has anyone tried this? I imagine that hey can get stuck while sparging or clump a lot!

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