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Hi Mini Mash, Any chance of meeting up some stage to share ideas?

Just a quick one, looking at a Coopers Sparkling ale the recipe is 1.7kg Thomas Coopers Sparkling Ale 1.5kg Thomas Coopers Light Malt Extract 500g Coopers Light Dry Malt 300g Coopers Dextrose (or table sugar) Coopers Carbonation Drops In your opinion, if I am to avoid sugars, what would I...

Hey you guys, This has been a really enlightening experience and I've learned more from this single post that any of the suppliers I have talked to, so thank you and especially to those who have encouraged me to keep it simple. I'll continue to experiment and take on suggestions about the...

I know Keith and Mike and quite honestly hadn't given it a thought, Hunter beer is just 5 mins away. I also have Potters Brewery diagonally opposite to my place in Nulkaba. I'll chat to them and see what I get

Thanks for you help and I appreciate any comments. We have 2 suppliers here in the Hunter one in Cessnock and the other Weston a few kilometres away, bot have recently started their business and I suspect from a love of drinking beer but they don't have the breadth of knowledge to advise, the...

I've recently started and have been using the standard tins such as coopers and so on and have even taken (for me) more bolder steps of adding malt extract and so on. But someone told me I would get a better result using live yeast rather than the packet. I see there are cakes of yeast in the...