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Pretty sure it would be vinegar.

Thanks Wasabi , I'm using different flowers for bitterness and aroma , They must be fresh as the beer so far has been very good. Had a look at craftbrewer website and Ross seems to have fresh flowers at a good price. My usual supplier sells pellets in bulk also at a good price . That's why I...

I just place a fine sieve at the top of the fermenter when I pour the cooled wort out of my 20 lt pot . No problems with hop flower sediment. Beer as clear as commercial beer.

Have just started doing extracts using hop flower in the last month or so, early results have been good compared to kits containing isohops. Thinking of using hop pellets instead of flowers as easier to get . Any advise with the difference in the end product.

If it's as good as when Marcus made it when I was a local a few years ago it's more than an average beer mate. Both the lager and bock are way above anything commercial , and they use to cost a little bit more than that gassy muck they served out of the tap down the road. Just hope the new...

Stirring the mash , :P :P But honesty, from what I hear, the Lexie stuff has long been dumped . Going down there shortly and looking foward to some of the good old Picton pub brew.

Yes, I believe it was. BTW My mate who lives just down the road from there tells me the beer is back to being good and consistent.

I agree Blackbock but if you don't live in the city like me , buying fresh hop flowers and fresh crushed grain for steeping is a problem , me local HBS is prepared to stock the dry pack and I don't have to use kits that contain isohops.

Heard on the grapevine that ESB is bringing out this new product . Dry beer kit. Anybody seen them on the shelf yet ????.

Wouldn't think of brewing a lager at this time of the year unless you had a fermenting fridge. I brew lagers in a fridge at 10-12 deg . You are wasting your time at 18 -20 deg, it will never taste anything like Steinlager .

Just as a matter of interest , I have been told that the Coopers brewmaster selection Pilsener also comes with a true lager yeast , certainly can smell the sulphur smell as soon as you open the fridge door when its fermenting. Only comes in 7gr packs so I use 3 packs to a brew then reuse the...