Recent content by alamout

cheers, yeah i'll test for leaks once it all dries out, it's odd though it's been in the fridge never moved for 3 months and then in less than 12 hours has decided to leak on me.

so it's just after lunchtime i've got the day off work - think it's beer o'clock, open the keg fridge (i store the co2 bottle inside the fridge) and things look amiss, there's a hissing sound of gas and the entire regulator / co2 bottle is covered in a thin layer of frosting, moreso around the...

Hey all, how do you go about calculating hops to use when you dilute wort ... by this i mean the following: planning a brew for 46 litres of 1.048 beer. will put about 44 litres into the kettle which will boil down to close enough to 38-40 litres, then will dilute it back up to 46 in...

haha i will try :) full soda keg went in about 3 days but i've got a dozen stubbies worth that i'm trying to save for christmas. was only the third all grain so i'd rather it be tasting great but cloudy instead of the other way around.

there was no whirl floc or any other finings. we did boil pretty big to the point of a few too many boilovers (trying to do as close to 50 litres in a 50 litre pot is a real challenge). I heard the same thing about cloudy mash tun run off somewhere too, who knows. as well as this tend to get a...

did up a pale ale the other week with 10kg of BB Ale and 500g of light crystal, tasted amazing however was very very cloudy after 2 1/2 weeks in the fermenter and cold crashed for 2-3 days. anyone else seen this in pales with the BB? my guess is actually my poorly made and too small mash tun...

I did want something that I can do either 25 or 50 litre batches in, as well as some room to make either really big beers or experiment with step mashing. I just hope it's still very suitable for the little batches too, the 60 litre sounds deep enough to get a reasonably bed depth with only 4-5...

http://myworld.ebay.com.au/unbelievablycool/ Prices seem to vary a lot, I noticed over the weekend the ending bids were a bit higher than during the week as would be expected. I'm a bit of a stinge so I just kept creeping the bids up until I got one for a price I was happy with, he seems to...

i just got a 60litre techni ice off ebay for $56 (+ $30 delivery) which came with a bonus 18litre esky, and some of those "dry ice" packs they're flogging off too. I'm sure it might be overkill but even the cheap camping stores or bunnings seem to want about that much for a cheap one, and with...

cheers for the advice, consensus, it's heading for the bottle

Hey guys, I've got an amber ale that's been in the fermenter for about 2 1/2 weeks now, the specific gravity seems to have stopped at about 1.015 (started at 1.042) it's a pretty malty brew (can of morgans amber ale, kilo of DME and 250g of corn syrup extract) do you think that's too high for a...

I was given a free bag of hops from my LHBS that he'd had in his freezer for over three years and weren't selling (he said people who came there didn't seem to like Sterling). They were sealed airtight in foiled packages and still smelt great. They've been in my freezer for another 2 months now...

Yeah I saw that suggestion, I haven't even got any operational kegs yet however, let alone ones I can ransack. There seems to be fairly varied views on how much copper is okay to have in food products, I wonder how much would leak into the wort during a full fermentation and whether or not it...

Hey guys, was looking around for stainless steel to use for a thermowell for a temperature sensor setup I'm building and it's appearing a bit difficult to locate. I know copper is reasonably food safe but how about if it's sitting in the fermenting wort for 2-3 weeks? Would I be better off using...

thanks for the tips! sounds like cascade might be the go LHBS suggested a bag of their "amber booster" which is 500g of amber DME, 500g of Light DME and 250 of corn sugar I think, I'm going backwards a bit in my complexity with this one, the last brew was a Nth American brown ale with a big...