From an idea to a Beer.

Decide on style or type of beer.

Research beer to be made

Design recipe and water treatment

Select and acquire all ingredients

Culture or buy yeast

Step up yeast culture

Weigh and mill Grist

Mash in grist and desired water treatment to hit correct PH

Sparge and run off sweet Wort into kettle

Boil wort with hop additions for bittering,flavor and aroma

Cool and whirlpool Wort

Run off into fermenter

Ferment at required temperature

Add clarifying agents and crash chill

Cold condition till beer is bright

Keg or bottle condition

Age then sample

This is a really simple diagram of how the major processes that go into creating a new beer work for me. I will start with the finished product that I have in mind then work through the steps on how to create that end product.

Galaxy Australian Pale Ale Recipe.

Galaxy Australian Pale Ale

Recipe Specs

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Batch Size (L):            25.0

Total Grain (kg):          5.074

Total Hops (g):            80.00

Original Gravity (OG): 1050
Final Gravity (FG):      1.013
Alcohol by Volume :    4.91 %

Colour (SRM):            3.8  
Bitterness (IBU):          37.0  

Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 80

Boil Time (Minutes):      60

Grain Bill

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4.313 kg Joe White Traditional ale malt (85%)

0.507 kg Munich I (9.99%)

0.254 kg Carapils (Dextrine) (5.01%)

Hop Bill

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10.0 g Galaxy Leaf (14.9% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (0.4 g/L)

10.0 g Galaxy Leaf (14.9% Alpha) @ 30 Minutes (Boil) (0.4 g/L)

10.0 g Galaxy Leaf (14.9% Alpha) @ 20 Minutes (Boil) (0.4 g/L)

10.0 g Galaxy Leaf (14.9% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (0.4 g/L)

40.0 g Galaxy Leaf (14.9% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Boil) (1.6 g/L)

Misc Bill

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Single step Infusion at 67°C for 60 Minutes.

Fermented at 18°C with WLP009 - Australian Ale

Recipe Generated with BrewMate



Top cropping yeast for the first time

Have just top cropped an Ale.BUT i have all the gear to culture so it was easy for me.
Last night canned some left over kettle runnings that i filtered then let it settle,diluted then reboiled.Then autoclaved in pressure cooker for 15min.Put 50ml of wort in preserving jar to put the top cropped yeast in till i transfer to a flask.100ml wort in 250 ml flask with foil on top and 700ml wort in a litre flask also foiled.


This morning sterised a 30ml ladle and funnel in pressure cooker san starred everything set up jar,flask etc.opened jar with lid resting on top,same for fermenter and pressure cooker.
Took deep breath scooped yeast from the middle of the foamy head and straight into jar with wort.Closed everything up and started to breath again.Re san starred after cleaning small spill
and transfered caught yeast and wort via funnel into waiting flask.Straight on to stir plate will give it 12 hours and step it up to the bigger flask if i think it is ready.


From what i have read you could also do this for SOME Lager/Pilsener strains if they produce a nice creamy Kraeusen on day 2 or 3.


Flame suit on as this is the first time top cropping,have tried to keep everything as aseptic as possible turned the heating off so less dust blowing around,autoclaved and flamed everything,san starred whole area including hands and forearms and tried not to touch or breath on anything that will come into contact will the yeast.

Yeast culturing

Busy setting up for Friday and Saturday,The Kolsch yeast is ready to crash chill and the London Ale III is now on the stir plate doing its thing.Will be a long day tomorrow 6.30am start getting the kids to where they need to be then a peak hour drive to work for a 10am lecture then school for myself at 5pm till 8pm.Hour drive home to bottle and keg my Steam Ale #1 at 9pm,set up for my Thursday class then another 4 day weekend.

EZ Water Calculator

Click on link to make water treatment as easy as punching in some numbers.
http://www.ezwatercalculator.com/
You will need to get a local water report to use this water treatment calculator.

Link to Brewmate free recipe software.

Click to get an easy to use recipe generator.http://www.brewmate.net/downloads


Have been using this tool to do the last Six brews that have gone through my new Braumeister 20lt system that i imported direct from Germany.


Been hitting target gravity(OG) every time and final gravity(FG) with recipes produced using RandyRobs  brewmate,thanks for this great tool that cost me nix.