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23 Litres in a Carboy I am just following the instructions that came with it. Boil corn sugar in 2 gallons of water to sanitize it, then add to a sanitized carboy that has room temp RO water already in it. Temp may be high so add yeast when it cools to 68 F. Left it in the carboy for 3 weeks. Added 1/2 of the back sweetener and all of the flavour packet at kegging time. Cleared fine, but not bright. Tastes pretty good.

23 Litres Do the same as your Pear cider. I had to boil 5 litres of RO water from the water cooler along with the corn sugar. I don't trust the water coming from it. Temp was 72 F at pitching time. This stuff is thick in the bag. I need to rinse it out more than I did. Going good the next day. Some foam on top and I will have to watch it getting higher. I don't have any spare blow off hoses, so I may have to add no-foam to keep it from spewing out the top. This tasted more fruity than the Pear, but I do like it. Very easy to make, just pour and ferment.

Daenerys Targayen Blonde Ale - ( 5.5 Gallons ) My first extract brew in over 20 years. More to come this winter as partial mash recipes because they are cheaper to make and will taste better. This is just a test. Most or if not all of my beers will have a " Game of Thrones " theme to them. Pics are easy to get too. 5.5 gallons 9 lbs. UCM LME 18.2 g Magnum - ( 13.3% AA ) at 60 min. 1 oz. Hallertauer - ( 3.8% AA ) at 0 min. RO water 11.5 grams US-05 O.G. - 1.050 - ( Not sure if I measured correctly ) F.G. - % - SRM - 6.4 BU - 28 I had a hard time cooling 5.5 gallons with the chiller on top of the elements. Will not make 5.5 gallons again. Other than that, it was around 3 hours to make. Clean up is easy. Now to see what an extract beer tastes like. It has been 22 years since my last one. I do remember the beer tasted pretty good.                                       Ferme...

Conical 22 lbs. UCM 2 row ( 89.8% ) 1 lb. Carastan ( 4.1% ) 1.5 lb. Simpson Medium Crystal 100 ( 6.1% ) 65 g Northern Brewer @ 60 min. ( 8.5% AA ) 62 g Northern Brewer @ 20 min. ( 8.5% AA ) 100 g Northern Brewer @ 0 min. ( 8.5% AA ) US-05 Water Profile - Try to get as close to Kal's Electric Pale Ale as possible. CA - 102 MG - 26 S04 - 276 CI - 52 2.7 ml Phosphoric acid ( 5.20 PH ) - estimated room temp. I went back to Bru'n Water and with my next brew, NO ACID is required for this recipe. All of those salts bring down the PH so much, that I don't need it. O.G. - 1.049 F.G. - % - SRM - 9.6 BU - 42.3 The last one was okay. It did have an off flavour which I re-used my 833 with. Not sure what happened. The only thing I did was use spraymalt to make my starter with. 2 batches with this English DME had an off flavour.  I won't be using liquid yeast for awhile as I want to really make a lot of beer to bottle condition all winter. I also want to ...

Using Carboys 22 lbs. UCM 2 row 1 lb. Victory 2 lbs. Carastan EKG - 85 g @ 60 min ( 5.1% AA ) EKG - 35 g @ 20 min ( 5.1% AA ) US-05                                                          WATER PROFILE CA  - 70 S04 - 75 CI - 72 .05 ML LACTIC ACID IN MASH ONLY ( NOT MUCH AT ALL ? ) Going back to my roots. I am not having good luck with lagers lately. I am sure it was my washed yeast that wasn't done properly. Done doing that. May use Wyeast this fall and winter along with my DME. Kelscey's in town sell DME for $10.00 for 500 grams. Yikes! Brew Kettle seems to be getting out of retail sales of supplies. UCM sells DME for $2.64 a lb. Now, that is more like it. Will be doing partial extract brews all winter. I will just have to boil it in my garage and it will be easy to cool of course. O.G. - 1.050...