Recent content by BigAl

1.) Randyrob 2.) GMK 3.) Goat 4.) kook 5.) Asher 6.) brendanos 7.) kai 8.) Bigal 9.) 10.)

RM, I had a crack at it a while back now. I'll see if i can dig out my notes on it, but from memory it looked right, tasted nice, but wasn't quite there on the hops and malt. I think i used EKG hops early and Cascade late to give it that zing in the finish... I'll get back to you. Your...

Ausdb, Ive just sent you an email, can you add me to the list. Cheers.

Ian i'll take a bag if you can bring one along for me? Cheers :P

A couple of quick pics, see below. You will have to work with the shape you have underneath and the bar fridge you get. The fridge i got had a single evaporator plate in the fridge above was the freezer compartment, below was the fridge. I simply bent the tubing over so the plate is vertical in...

I had to go down a similar path for the underneath of my bar several years back. I chose to build a mini fridge space underneath the bar with 50mm polystyrene. For a cooling unit i bought a secondhand $100 bar fridge pulled it apart carfully so i could mount the evaporator in the cold space and...

Kook, i used to do a similar process, but recently have changed the timing of some of my aroma hops to post whirlpool, and i do believe it has made a significant difference for me. I will continue to do it.

Re OSB "As of just over a week ago, our microbrewery unfortunately closed down" Could be a 600L setup going cheap....

I thought the brewery was sold off to some non brewing banker types after John sustianed his injuries? Ive always found BDs to be ferrel, the last time i had a beer there the glass looked liked someone had kicked it around in black sand and it had no head on it whatsoever, i took it back drank...

I dont have a trailer Deebee, but try the servo (is it gull just near you?) you can get one for a couple of hours for ~20 bucks.

Its hard to imagine that with the move of peoples tastes to favour craftbeer over megaswill that they can make a stupid decision like this. Its similar logic to Carlton UB that put the price of beer up to pay for rediculously expensive stupid ads to try and sell more of their cr@p megaswill...

Goodness me :( , last time i went there was a great experience, Hugh Dunn (ex very experienced brewer from swam) was the brew master, they had 5 of their own on tap, pilsner, pale ale, porter, wit and the specialty, the beers were well drinkable and crafted. So...what the $&ck has happened...

Big D, If the gearing is on the outside of the mill, then there should be any problems with rock through the gear teeth. Yesterday i stripped down the Barley crusher, cleaned and re-oiled the shafts/bearing and put another o-ring in it. Will report back on how it goes. :D, the o-ring should at...

Thanks for the replies guys. I did change the o-ring a few times but changing it every crush once it rips apart is a pain to pull to apart and take off my frame. I might try the cloth tape idea Yony, where do you get it from? Bunnings? The knurling used to be very sharp on it when brand new...