Recent content by bluejay

What are you asking for them? I'm pretty interested, pm me.

Cheers!!

Yeah no doubt about the great price. If anything it's too good, that's why I'm skeptical about the quality. But it seems the AHB community has given it the thumbs up, so that's all I need. Cheapest I see it on ebay though is 24 USD

Yeah I did read the first page, but I just wanted to make sure it heats and cools at the same time (or rather automatically switches between the two) Any major reason to avoid this in favour of the tempmate? Build quality still OK?

Sorry, the answer to this question is probably somewhere within the 15 pages of this thread, but I don'thave the time to read all that. Just want to know if this machine does heating and cooling at the same time (like the tempmate would) or whether you can only do one at a time (like the...

hmm well I did intentionally pour the liquid from a height so as to aerate it a bit. Is this not sufficient? how do others aerate it? And if it does lack oxygen is there much I can do about it now?

Ended up doing the brew as described in my last post. After 3 days the sg has gone from 1.050 to 1.040. Very slow. This doesn't seem too unusual reading posts here though. Should I be worried? How long does it usually take for it to finish? I would have thought using such pure sugars would...

I want to make a batch of this for my sister. Couldn't find any Iron bark honey at woolies. Is there a specific reason you use this type? What's the next closest one? Would you recommend adding any of the ginger refresher stuff? I already have a bottle of that. Also, would a coopers kit...

I'm keen for the bottles and the capper, but my 'finest' is only kits and bits- I'm a new brewer.

I don't see any hops pellets?

They've got a deal for half price in Sydney http://spreets.com.au/deal/Sydney/other/20...5-usually-12950 Might be worth a shot

Yes I meant 1kg of grain per 3L of water. I was just told by a friend that that's the general rule of thumb for AG. I will definitely try this method sometime when I have time

I can see how sparge improves yield, but why would a thicker bag and less water increase it? Yeah that's I think what I mean.

Thanks for the thread. Seems like a very interesting and manageable technique for a beginner like myself. One thing I don't understand though is how can 4kg of grain be enough for 20L of beer. I thought the general rule was 1kg of grain per 3 Litres of beer. Is it because the grain is ground...

Interesting, I thought you were only meant to do such crash chilling after secondary fermentation. I thought during the secondary fermentation the beer needed to be at fermentation temperatures to ensure the yeast can 'clean' up the flavours