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Redoak is excellent, and a short walk from there: http://www.redoak.com.au/ Good place for a meal!

What I did ------------ I had planned to add the syrup to about 500ml of boiling water, boil it for a couple of minutes, put it into a second fermenter and rack the beer on to it. But, when it came to it, it was late and I was feeling lazy so I ended up just heating the syrup to boiling point...

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I've done this a couple of times now, here's what I've found: 1. I would definitely use some L/DME unless you planned to water down your beer. An extra litre in 20 is 5% extra volume. 2. I wouldn't steep the hops for as long as 15 minutes. If you are doing this to add flavour + aroma, just...

Thanks guys, some great reassurance there.

Hi all. I have a 1.074 Belgian strong ale in the fermenter with some Wyeast 3787 chomping happily through it. Brewday was Saturday, all went well and I hit my target OG. After I'd cubed it (no-chill), I realised that I'd forgotten to add the 500ml bottle of dark Belgian candi syrup that I...

1. Chappo 2. lokpikn 3. JamesCraig 4. CM2 5. Hutch 6. Cocko 7. Doogiechap 8. QLD Kev 9. jeff E 10. Brewer 11. maple 12. JLM 13. L Bomb 14. Daemon 15. Ronin 16. Cracka 17. Swinging Beef 18. Reg 19. marlow_coates If drop outs: 21. itmechanic 22. richy Damn that was quick!

A very neat job on the brewery there! I'm interested in the last photo, your 'bar'. What are those vessels, and what are they for? Are they some kind of ale cask?

Just a note on the OP's question about bittering, I'm in my first few months of AG. All of my AG beers (all 4 of them) have been no-chill. My first two were a little over-bittered, and after making some adjustments the last couple have been fine. Basically I think TB sums it up fully in this...

I can't see that there would be benefit in leaving hops in the fermenter for extended periods, surely after 3 or 4 days almost all of the aroma would have been absorbed into the beer anyway. If I dry hop, I do it about 3 days into fermentation, then rack it into a secondary after another 3...

Hi Grant. Have you seen this before: http://www.scribd.com/doc/3506/Off-Flavor-Flash Some good info on causes of all off flavors - chlorine is a possibility - I usually prime new plastic with some PBW and hot water, and then a dose of starsan. I don't think they'll do you any harm except...

Just to finish this one off, I went for the 21mL borosilicate vials (L6221) as they have an OD of 29mm I figured they'd be OK. Half the price of the 27mm ones too. Screw caps were an extra $15 and a 5L glass beaker was $36. / Richy

Thanks Raven, that all sounds like good advice. I've got a 2L Erlenmeyer flask - however from punching a few examples into the calculator over at Mr Malty it seems like a 5L is going to be more like the minimum I'll need for starters. There's a 5L beaker on proscitech which I might splash out...

Hi all. I'm about to buy some test tubes / vials to make slants in; I've never done this before. I know the question has been asked around here many times in the past and most people are referred to ProSciTech or Livingstone for lab supplies. So, I'm putting together an order at ProSciTech at...