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I have been nursing this hops plant for 9 years. It has given me many kilos of hops to make beer with. Original chinook rhizome bought from hop farm. It is a prolific producer. I have had a larger harvest each year for 9 years. Original rhizome was much smaller. If you plant one of these...

Should I water down or run with it? I was trying to make 50 litres of LCPA, distractions then massive over boiling left me with 30 litres. Plan was to add water back to 50 litres. It lookes good, smelt and tasted great so there has been no watering down and Im headed for a 10% beer...

Hops rhizomes for sale x 21 varieties I have bought off Andrew 3 years ago and have just sent an order for this year. Top bloke and easy to deal with No affiliation other than being a happy customer. Any AHBers interested? Dear Hops Grower I will be selling hops rhizomes again this...

Has been a good hop growing season. I brewed yesterday. After mash in I picked about a kilo of fresh chinook. Blended up 400g. Boiled for an hour then put the whole 400g in. Let it boil for 3 mins then flame out and no chill in the urn. It's the most hops I have put in any beer so just wanted to...

Hi All, After tales and feedback about phenolic. In my case I bottled 2 longnecks from the keg of my 1st ever comp beer and left them sit at room temp. One went to the comp with high hopes, the other stayed with me. When I got the results 18 and 21 and both judges score sheets said phenolic, I...

My chinook has been in the ground for 2 years and has produced large crops of quality hops each year. see pic. This year I have dug around it to see the rhyzome size. see pic. Removed 9 rhyzomes as shown in pic, cd is there to show size. One has already gone to it's new home. The rest are...

1st attempt to brew to the style guide so I could enter a beer into a comp. The style guide says final gravity 1011 - 1015. Looks like my mash temp was too low as my beer went to 1009. Bringing me to my next problem. Style guide says Alc 5%-6% My beer is at 6.7% Anyone got any sneaky fixes? Is...

Have not had a fermentation problem for a long time. Until this brew, my 51st , a 110gram 10min Chinook IPA with SG of 1060. It's also my 1st time using White rabbit yeast. Since pitching on 25.4.11 it cruised along with the fridge set at 17 degrees for a few days then stopped on 1036. A keg for...

Bought a 6 pack of White Rabbit White Ale. Noticed it was bottle conditioned. Saved the yeast from 4 of the bottles and have been growing a starter. It smells good and tastes good so I plan to use it in my latest brew. Anyone used this yeast before and if so at what temprature? Thanks.

Read the other day a very convinving post from another AHB member saying "just try skimming once and you will be converted for ever". I put a brew on last night: 5kg Traditional ale malt 500g carra malt Mashed at 62 degrees for 90 mins. As I was bringing it to the boil the I skimmed all the foam...

Brewing on saturday, threw in the 1st hop addition. Not long after I noticed multiple dark bits racing around in the boil, not a good look. 1st thought was, it's burning on the element or something. On closer inspection they were seeds. Checked the hops and sure enough they had seeds all through...

Hi All, I BIAB in a Birko 40 litre urn. Have been trying a few single hop beers of late. Brewing Batch 38 on saturday using only Target hops. Mashed 1kg of traditional ale malt and 4kg of export pilsner at 67 degrees for 3 hours due to an interuption. Then a 60 min boil. 60 min 20g target 40 min...

I grew chinok hops last summer. Have made about 8 batches of beer from them. Do brew in a bag in a 40 ltr birko. Usually just throw hop flowers in whole with no hop sock. Am down to my last 40g of hop flowes sadly. When the boil was complete I would look at the spent hop flowers and see there...

Just after opinions on my accidental 3 hour mash mainly. It all seems ok and I was sure I had read about extended mash time previously somewhere on here, perhaps not 3 hours though. Had a look with search function also. Was making a BIAB brew on Saturday arvo at 1pm. Had just mashed in, 30...

Saturday I put on a 23 litre pale ale OG1059, safale05 added at 20 derees. Into the fermenting fridge set at 18 degrees. Wednesday night it was at 1020 sitting at 16 degrees. Because of the cold weather the fridge has not turned on as the temp does not get to 18 degrees. So I would like some...

A bottle was found Tuesday afternoon that was from my 4th batch of beer, am up to 27th now. I bottled it in April 2006 and labelled 7 bottles for a mate, seems I only gave him 6 of them. So last night I drank a beer that I bottled just over 4 years ago. Back then I was making some fairly...

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I have a an "air up" 2.3 litre co2 tank that I bought before I knew they were not easy to get refilled. It has run out... On their website the closest place to fill it up is silverwater, a chub fire extinguisher place. I am at rosebery in Sydney 2018 and am not keen on driving to silverwater...

Saw this if anyone is interested in a 40 litre. Cheers.

Hi All, Thursday night I collected about half the hops from my chinook hop plant growing in the backyard. They have been fan dried in my garage and are about ready for bagging and freezing. The rizome was bought from lochrockingbeats and planted late seprember. Fertalised and grown naturally...