Recent content by Bizarre

Hi Andreic, I still bottle - and have done for 5 -6 years due to lack of space for kegs and a fridge etc - personally I find that my beers are well carbonated and taste good after 6 - 8 weeks in the bottle. Anything before that and I find they are a bit flat and also cloudy. Try to do batch...

Ok - in no certain order but: 1) Build a brewstand 2) Get a pump setup of some description so I can pump strike water, recirculate and cool wort. 3) Buy a chiller 4) Keg setup is a must - I need to find space for a fridge tho!! 5) Not chicken out of the next WA case - I was too worried about...

I tend to agree with Goat to an extent here - if it is not diacetyl then something is definately amiss here - possibly a hygeine issue? I have beers in bottle that are over 6 months old and still taste fine. They really should improve with time, and the fact that they are not makes me wonder...

Sadly, I am one of those "space challenged" brewers - I would love a fermenting fridge but I got no where to stick the bloody thing. Nobody is selling large, cheap houses on Ebay are they? lol :D

Quite frankly who cares what they think! Ross gives good service - my last order for some hops, ph papers and hop sock etc turned up I think 2 days after ordering it, so I was happy - and if you mention AHB he makes a donation to the site to support it too - so I really don't see what the...

Hey Deaves - AG isnt really that complicated. I thought it was so I shied away from it for years. I think I am on to about my 7th or 8th ag batch now and I have to say its really pretty easy. Only thing is you may need to lash out a bit more on equipment - with regard to the taste of 'em - it is...

I saw this post a while ago and took it on board. I fill my trough with water and stick ice or frozen water bottles etc in it, I use a fish tank power filter head as the pump (a cheapie at $20 or so from BigW) to create a round the trough flow and every 5 to 10 minutes or so I stir my wort the...

Ya know, I never even thought of that! lol - thats the 2nd thing I've learned today :P

One thing people should remember is that when your wort (or any liquid for that matter) is hot and steaming, the steam will replace air and push it out the container. So if you hot fill and seal it whilst it is still hot you should not have much in the way of air in there anyway - I would have...

I bottled my first no chill thru the week and didnt have time to post about it. I dont like wasting water which is one reason I decided to give it a go - it tasted good on bottling - no off flavours of any description. When I'd finished boiling the brew I just left it overnight in the kettle to...

Sadly nothing for me - I collected all the ingredients to do a Witt beer and only just realised last night I have no bottles left - damn it!! Alas I think drinking 20 odd long necks in one night is beyond even me! :D Maybe I should invite some of the other Perth blokes around to help lol

Thanks Colin! I'll certainly give that one a go :)

Hi Colin - I made an IPA which is fairly close to this one - except a bit more malty and with a bit more oomph in the hop department - and it turned out to be a very nice drop. I'll bung the recipe on here feel free to try / change etc etc - I was pretty happy with it the way it was tho ...

Call me untrusting - but when the bloke mentioned it I thought "Yeah right" - when u said sidecars I made the assumption that it'd be on dirt. Are you the "driver" or the "hanger on" - I honestly don't know how the hell u guys have the guts to race those things - good to watch tho :)

I have been wanting to try and catch up with some of the Perth blokes for a while now - so I can put faces to some of the online names (Would this cause nightmare do you think? :D ) - but sadly I have family commitments on Sat 21st. Barfridge are you going to the new speedway track that was...