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I'm genuinely disgusted to have been a part of this community. There are some decent people among you, but fewer than I had thought. Chovain out.

Good. Take the other bogan "**** the law because they're out to get us" types with you. You give the honest people a bad name.

I jaywalked on the way home. I admit it. But I can sleep easy knowing that I didn't sell alcohol to a minor.

You'd need to sell your beer in an open market for me to dob you in.

For christ's sake - let's drop the hyperbole. The guy is not going to get a huge fine, and it's not going to land him a criminal conviction. I included the maximum penalty in my post to remind people. I'm shocked and ashamed that there are so many people around here with so little sense of...

No, it's not hypocritical. I'm not going to dob in the guy who pirates something off the net. I'll sure as **** dob in the guy who sells his wares collection at a flea market though. I'm not going to dob in the guy who steals a keg. You don't want to be the guy selling a stolen keg with me...

People often bring beers around to my place when they visit, too (more often when I'm running short on the homebrew :)). The best thing is, it's normally unusual stuff. It saves me having to shop for it, at least.

Any chance you know the density of those elements? Alternatively, can you measure the cross-sectional diameter of the elements, and each of their lengths (total length of the element, not penetration) so I can calculate it? :D

Apart from the obvious (design and build), I'm hoping to put together a wiki article at least outlining the design constraints, or optimally detailing it right through to the design itself. This info is just about impossible to get your hands on :(.

Yes. By law, they are obliged to. Insert old lady, astute member of local church, parent of child who manages to buy a crate from someone. (Think of the children! ;)). No, I was just countering the argument that I was raising the profile of the ebay item. OLGR couldn't care less if we...

They absolutely wouldn't give someone a fine of more than a couple of hundred bucks for selling 6 crates of beer on eBay. That's reserved for the people who keep doing it after being convicted of it, or who are selling hugely commercial quantities. At the end of the day, alternatives for all...

That's about all I get with my LP regulator on my 40L kettle. It takes me a little under an hour to get to strike temp, and half an hour to get the boil on. It's a great opportunity to relax with a homebrew while checking over your targets. If your requirements differ, it's not that hard to...

Yep, but only among our isolated community, and potentially the OLGR. OLGR isn't going to recommend law changes based on an isolated incident. In fact they're likely to see it as self-policing to some extent (homebrewers are willing to dob people like that in). Edit: And if some old bitty...

There's a fine line between "works" and "works now, but you only have a week to live". Unforturately, the "instructions" don't include any information on correct grounding procedures, or even how to correctly install the cables. A knowledgeable person will notice that there is a subtle error...

All it takes is some old bitty going to the papers and saying, "Look, these homebrew people are selling alcohol unchecked. Think of the children!" You may be overestimating our reputation with the rest of the community: To them, we are a bunch of bogans trying to save a buck, and getting...

Yeah, you're going to need decent power to bring 75L to the boil. How big is your actual boil? If you're boiling 60L, it'll take 251kJ/C (ignoring heat loss). If you want to be able to rise by a degree per minute, then you'll need 4.1kW of power. That means you'll need 20A single-phase, or...

I hate to be a nanny, but I've lodged a complaint with NSW OLGR. Shits like that give us a bad name, and I hope they fine him. (Maximum penalty $5,000, 6 months imprisonment).

...unless you are not comfortable working with 240V AC, in which case I'd strongly recommend the one on ebay, as it will just plug in and work. The FridgeMate requires doing your own wiring. If you know your active from your neutral, and have a good grasp of what faults the earth can protect...

Yep - In one of the other threads going on at the moment, I'm asking a related question: What's the highest power density you can have that won't scorch the wort? There's very little actual information out there on what you can get away with. You may be able to ask one of the local...

There are two ways of getting bigger elements. One is to go for higher current (thicker wiring, and slightly different power points where you want to access the 15 or 20A): That gives you up to 3600W for 15A, or 4800W for 20A. Three phase power gives you the ability to run one or more points...