homa Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Does anyone have any suggestions on where to start for a recipe of Powers Bitter, have looked everywhere cant find a thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchBastard Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 (edited) Dunno about powers but if you want an Australian-ish type of lager I’d go for 4.5kg of Barrett burston pale malt, .5kg of dex and POR bittered to 35 IBU and use s-189 yeast. I believe XXXX used cluster so maybe you could look at that instead of POR just stabbing here... Edited April 15, 2020 by MitchBastard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerlust Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 We're sitting top of the ladder & they call the season off! https://www.afl.com.au/ladder?Competition=1&CompSeason=20&GameWeeks=264&ShowBettingOdds=1&Live=0 Damn right we're bitter! Lusty. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassius Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 15 hours ago, Beerlust said: We're sitting top of the ladder & they call the season off! https://www.afl.com.au/ladder?Competition=1&CompSeason=20&GameWeeks=264&ShowBettingOdds=1&Live=0 Damn right we're bitter! Lusty. Hahahaha Lusty, I wish I could react to this more than once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_G Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 (edited) XXXX 100% use cluster so i would say that Powers would be Pride of Ringwood. I also think there would be some cane sugar in the brew as well. Mitch is probably on the money but I would increase the sugar and decrease the Barley. I would start will Mitch's and keep decreasing the barley and increasing the sugar until you hit it. Another thing they use a great deal in commercial beers is rice. I know XXXX use a lot of it now. Edited April 16, 2020 by MartyG1525230263 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homa Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 cheers thanks for the reply's I tried CUB just to see what hops they used and they said that was a close guarded secret why rice and how long has XXXX been using it for ? speaking of XXXX you reminded me of something I saw recently searching for recipes https://www.change.org/XXXXBitter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_G Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, homa said: why rice and how long has XXXX been using it for ? Rice is cheap. I don't know how long they have been using it but a logical guess would be since Kirin bought into Lion Nathan. I dobt know the full details but my guess would be that the majority of the worlds commercial beers now use rice in some form. I dont know but my guess is beers like Great Northern and Iron Jack are rice beers. Edited April 16, 2020 by MartyG1525230263 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Last I looked at their website they used Queensland cane sugar. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben 10 Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Quote XXXX BITTER is a big-hearted lager which is full of pride. That pride runs deep in the ingredients; pure local water, Australian malted barley, Queensland cane sugar, unique Golden Cluster hops and yeast grown at the XXXX Brewery combine for a beer with a signature clean, crisp taste and satisfying after-bitterness. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenyinthewestofsydney Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Pure local water huh? Right from the brisbane river? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenyinthewestofsydney Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 5 hours ago, MartyG1525230263 said: I dont know but my guess is beers like Great Northern and Iron Jack are rice beers. Rice or corn i think. The other megaswill are not great beers but i tell you the VBs and XXXX and New's kick the crap out of Great Northern and Iron Jack. Got me buggered how they were successfully launched. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Instigator Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 And people love them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Von Blotto Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Marketing. The target market thinks all craft beer drinkers are hipster wankers and that these bland excuses for beer are what real men drink while/after doing manly things, because marketing told them so. And they won't try anything else because it might make them less of a man to drink hipster juice. That's about what it boils down to. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzza Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 5 hours ago, Otto Von Blotto said: Marketing. Am afraid I cannot agree more with Kelsey on this - whether it is Corona, XXXX Gold, Gt Nth or whatever joke-swill.... it is purely sold on Ads making people THINK they are having a great time... Any Beer Company that HIGHLIGHTS low bitterness (Gt Nth Jokebeer) = we are too fkkn cheap to buy any hops = is a an absolute JOKE beer company. And they can bag us for being 'hipsters' - the pure fact is that - we are making - and drinking - real beer. Not brown coloured alcohol flavoured softdrink. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red devil 44 Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Hmm, guess i am a hipster wanker, and bloody proud of it, home brew craps all over mega-swill I have a mate and all he drinks is the Gt Northern dogsh#t, he thinks it’s better than sex, obviously doesn’t get much action in the bedroom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_G Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 My brother in-law drinks GN Crisp cans by the truck load. Will not touch anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red devil 44 Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 18 minutes ago, MartyG1525230263 said: My brother in-law drinks GN Crisp cans by the truck load. Will not touch anything else. Not even the AG home brew ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_G Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 10 minutes ago, Red devil 44 said: Not even the AG home brew ? Na always brings his own. It is too bitter, too dark, too hoppy, too yeasty, too sweet, too too .... you get the drift , then he says....dont know how you can drink that sh^& Marty here get a real beer into ya while I am drinking a 3 month keg lagered AG Pils. 1 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonySchmidt Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 On 4/17/2020 at 2:56 PM, Greeny1525229549 said: Pure local water huh? Right from the brisbane river? I won’t have you say a derogatory word about the brown snake (Brisbane River) Greeny! Hahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean's of Ale- Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 (edited) The old powers of piss....Mate i had no idea this still had any kind of following, i just assumed they went broke & castelmaine brewery bought them out... my first recollection of powers was that one needed to take a monthfull and punch the nearest wall & try to swollow it , it burnt your throat if you took your time, that was the 80'/90s & they sponsored the Broncos prehaps it improved since those dark old days. Edited May 13, 2020 by Ocean's of Ale- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_G Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ocean's of Ale- said: The old powers of piss....Mate i had no idea this still had any kind of following, i just assumed they went broke & castelmaine brewery bought them out... Nothing of the sort. They built a state of the brewery at Yalta which was sold to Carlton for a very healthy profit. It is now the CUB headquarters in Qld. Powers made several very drinkable beers but they got caught up in the Bond/Lion and the CUB duopoly that destroyed all the local state breweries. Edited May 13, 2020 by MartyG1525230263 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homa Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 On 4/15/2020 at 6:18 PM, MitchBastard said: Dunno about powers but if you want an Australian-ish type of lager I’d go for 4.5kg of Barrett burston pale malt, .5kg of dex and POR bittered to 35 IBU and use s-189 yeast. I believe XXXX used cluster so maybe you could look at that instead of POR just stabbing here... How many litres would I start with ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchBastard Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 On 5/23/2020 at 11:03 PM, homa said: How many litres would I start with ? 23L 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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