Recipe Advice Thread

[denimglen]

Thought it might be handy to have a thread for some of the more advanced brewers to give some advice on recipes.

Let's see how it goes eh...

[denimglen]

Ah sorry my bad.

Try this one, mainly the second paragraph :-)

[Fraser Kennedy]

Hey a friend of mine wanted me to tack some extra hops onto an order. He's a newbie in the brewing scene and wants to put a nice porter together. I reckoned green bullet on the bittering should be good. Thoughts?

[denimglen]

Haven't used it personally.

Out of the three high alpha NZ hops I've used Southern Cross is the one I keep going back to, with Pac Gem and Pac Jade being the other two.

[James P]

I have used it in a couple of porters / stouts and I think it gives an earthy spiciness quality to the beer.

[Soren]

southern cross and pac jade are my house bittering hops. I have used green bullet in the past and wasnt too pleased with the results but that might as well have been my own fault, not the bullet's, my brewing techniques weren't the best back then:)
generally green bullet has a bad name, which is why I was suprised when I stumpled over this:, from the creaters of "Stormakts porter"

I think single hop green bullet IPA is on my charts for future brews...

[jt]

I think single hop green bullet IPA is on my charts for future brews...

Plenty of green bullet love here http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=30041&...

I'm sure I read warren did a smash with gb to, just can't see for looking though

my brewing techniques weren't the best back then:)

I think I have the same problem with sticklebract, didn't like it, or was it something else I did

[Scarrfie]

Did you ever do this JT? 

[jt]

No, but I did do both a pale and a brown with super alpha .. Probably not great recipe fomulation, not great beer . . . There may even be a thread on it, nt sure

[Reviled]

+1 for southern cross, great smooth nuetral bittering hop...

[KJ Henderson]

Ok guys, newbie alert. I will be attempting my first brew soon and need a basic stout recipe using steeped grains and extracts. Something that I can build upon and have some give and take in the quality department. Cheers guys.

[denimglen]

Are you talking like a dry stout like Guinness?

[KJ Henderson]

I dont have the hardware for anything all grain but wish to have a quality product that can be recreated in all grain after a bit of tweaking and refining.