Recent content by BrewOnBoard

Good point! From my previous experience, Australian customs has the same sense of humor as the American department of homeland security. Saying "Flower" or "plant matter" to an Aussie custom's official will get your ass tackled just as quick as saying "Bomb!" in a US airport. That reminds...

Going 'round the pacific and Terra Australis stopping port by port to take on provisions brewed up by AHS members. Now THAT sounds like fun! :D :chug: I've got room in the bilge for beer, but unfortunately it's not just a matter of turning my 60 gallon water tank into a keg. I plan to be...

Thanks to IanH's awesome brew calculator I calculated up what I've got in the fermenter and it told me that I'm looking at 69 IBUs and a pretty average OG at 1.049. Hmmm.... I really like hoppy, and I want an IPA-ish beer, but thems a lot of IBUs, Hops, yes, but super super bitter, not sure I...

Thanks mmm. That's some good info, which looks heisted from their marketing info. I couldn't easily find that, so your Google-fu appears to be superior.... So it seems like it's not available down under. Well then you lot won't be much help with the finer points of using it will you? ;)...

I haven't used cooper's kits in a while, but when I did I used their yeast. I've noticed that their posted temperature tolerance range is much wider than any other dry yeast I've seen. I figure that might be a good thing since it might be difficult to control temp (though I'm going to try)...

South island? Right! I hear you guys are smarter down there as well. Ya'know because two heads are better than one. :D Beautiful though on the south island (except maybe Queenstown). When I was younger I walked the southwest coast once. Stunning scenery, top-grade mud and a bloody hard...

Absolutely right about the pellet hops making all the difference. My local store just started selling all of them in vacuum packed mylar bags. I bet those puppies will keep nicely and I'll definately have a stash of them in the bilges. Half of my "limited ingredients experiment" is practical...

Great idea! I'd seen those hop oils in syringes before but had forgotten about them. Looks like another fun item to play with.... Thanks for the reminder. BoB

IanH Your spreadsheet is awesome!!! I didn't originally see the drop-down menus but once I found them, holy cow! Kit, + Kit + everything else calculations! Great stuff! If I ever figure out how many IBUs hopped DME contributes, is there a way I can add that in manually to the DME drop...

Sean, Good luck building that cat! I built a 14ft boat and thought that was a lot like hard work, can't imagine building a real boat. I do plan to carry the fresh stuff along with me and use it wherever I can and re-supply as often as possible. Hops are often vacuum packed in mylar bags...

I just figured out from a search of posts on AHS that the 530ibu listed on the cooper's website for their kit can be divided by the boil volume to determine the final IBU. Obvious? Probably but not to someone slow like me... Now that I know that, I can calculate my IBU. I have seen online...

Hey thanks for the tips. Wheat beers are a brew that I don't think I've ever brewed before. I hear they go off like a rocket and ferment quickly. Might be just the go for crossing an intentional border (where you can't bring much booz across) and then a quick ferment and we're back in the...

In my quest to brew with shelf-stable ingredients, I came across hopped spraymalt/DME (which one is the correct term down under anyway?). Sounds like a fun ingredient that I've never played with before! I imagine I could sub in 500g of it in where I'd be using spraymalt/DME to up the IBU and...

I should have clarified that I'm looking for recipes that don't use "hop pellets or leaf hops" as I want shelf-stable ingredients for my project. Cheers! BoB

I've looked at the recipe database, and while many brews look great, I'm specifically looking for brews that don't use any hops. I found a couple, but didn't see any 2 kit brews. Cooper's website has a couple, but I'm curious to find out more. Right now, just for a baseline experiment, I've...