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So I had this leaking keg. Gas was coming out underneath the gas post. I pulled out the pipe, replaced the o-ring, re-lubed, put it back together ... still leaking. I tried a new post ... still leaking. I swapped the gas pipe in from another keg. Leak stops. Thus, it must have been the...

Ref: http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/craft-beer-tax-axed-in-federal-budget/news-story/688205b3634bebe0715e702cc7fde60d (WARNING: news.com.au link) What this is referring to is an proposed excise law change . Basically if beer is packaged in containers >= 48 litres there is a...

So a couple of years ago our old faithful, reliable hot water system rusted through. We fount out, much to our disappointment, it was irreplaceable and we had to drop $6.5k on a solar system. Great. Since then we're always running out of hot water in winter, and the hot tap-water is never...

The 3rd Sunday is tomorrow. Are we meeting anywhere ?

I'm considering attending this start-a-microbrewery workshop in Oregon (USA). Currently it's about AUD $1200. https://pace.oregonstate.edu/catalog/craft-brewery-startup-workshop Has anyone ever been to this or sort of thing? There's a local guy offering the same sort of course, but even...

G'day Viewers, We're trying to organise a mini bus to take us to (and back-from) Warner's At The Bay Beer Festival. (Since last year we booked a taxi, and it never turned up). The mini-bus company we're talking to runs out of Morisset typically. I was considering a pickup/drop-off from...

G'day, My kettle failed to heat water past 35C when I turned it on yesterday. It worked fine 2 weeks ago (last time I turned it on). So I open up the connector box to find one of the wires has burned out: The wire is 4mm conductor rated to 20A, 4500w element at 240V ≈ 19A. It is within...

So I've been here for, uh, a few years now. I first turned up in 2009 looking for ginger beer recipes. At the time I was working in Switzerland. During apple season the village farmers would bottle fresh juice in PET containers and sell it on the corners of their farms with honesty boxes...

Greetings earth brewers and brewsters, I was doing a bit of reading on under and over oxygenating wort. Obviously both are possible, but under oxygenating is the bigger problem. Fine. That's the baseline theory - you want the correct amount if at all possible. But given it's really...

Right, so O2. The first time I saw it used was on a course at this place: All Gain Brewing, Boolaroo. At the time he cooled the wort, the O2 was injected in-line (with a T-piece air-stone) as the wort went from the chiller into the fermenter. I remember that there was only a very small amount...

So I got some very disappointing results from the HUB/Newcastle Show beer competition. The two beers I bottled with priming sugar were labelled as Oxidised. The other beer was filled from a keg, and was not. None of my beers have been called oxidised before, and I must admit I'm scratching...

Hey-yas, So I started converting my pin-lock kegs to ball-lock (no real reason, except that I can't get pin-lock stuff at any LHBS, despite them selling me the pin-lock kegs in the first place :( ) I started with a (previously-ball-lock before I pin-locked it) keg, and re-posted it with brand...

First a disclaimer: This gear report is not sponsored by anyone, all the gear I paid for myself. No opinions have been bought nor sold. So I've been playing around lately with containing my hops in the boil, so I can easily remove a bit of trub at the end of the boil. Traditionally you can...

Hi, I'm planning a 2-3 week of European tour of Beer & Breweries. It's not a brewery-a-day type thing, but beer & good food would be a major focus. Where would you suggest and Why? Here's a few from the top of my head: Czech Republic: - Plzen - Pilsebner Urquell / Brewery Museum -...

G'day, I recently purchased this nitrogen regulator: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/262038387434 But I need a female-to-barb fitting for the bottom. Are the threads here some kind of standard? I consulted the manual, but it does not specify, anything at all actually. I have messaged the...

Tried Fox Head's porter on the weekend at the Beer Festival. It was a great porter, lots of chocolate. There was also a very subtle minty note to the flavour. Do you reckon this could be from Northern Brewer hops ? People argue about whether these produce a minty note, but this seems to part...

Hi, Entered my recipe into BeerSmith (v 2.2.12 / Linux). Everything looked fine, but then I realised I had the wrong equipment profile selected. So i changed from "70 litre pot + cooler" to my correct profile (much bigger, ~150l), and all the style estimates plummeted. I don't understand...

G'day, Finally finished my brewing controller. It's designed to drive my HLT and HERMS-HX mash-tun. There are many like it, but this one is mine. It's based around an Arduino Nano. I wanted to push the nano as far as it would go. I couldn't quite get the kitchen sink in there, but it does...

We are getting green (presumably) copper oxide deposits in the shower. So Mrs Wibble ordered a pH meter. The "Oakton"/"Eutech" eco tester pH2 says our tank water is somewhere around 4.6 to 5.0 over 5 or so readings. Mrs Wibble wants to put buckets of limestone gravel in the tank to balance it...

G'day, I'm going to have the sparky come over and put high current socket(s) in the power box. (We only have single-phase power available in the street - if that matters) When I first started looking, I thought that 3600 watts would be more than enough draw. But what if (in the future, say) I...