Recent content by Chookers

Great! I'll add the recipe to my little book. Very soon I'll have to get a Big book for my recipes.

Congrats on your 1st place pcqypcqy, porter sounds interesting, is your recipe up? I still haven't done any dark brews, was very interested in doing a milk stout for a time there but still haven't got round to it and it seems a winter beer so I will probably wait. I got a 19L Bigw pot and...

Lovely!! Thanks for the answers guys. I am glad to hear feedback from those who have used this type of mill. I am on and off this (no offence) hobby, and as Spork pointed out the sacks I would need to buy are more than I can think of for my on again off again type of brewing, but I am keen on...

I am interested in doing small batches 10-15L at a time, I have done a few BIAB brews and they have both turned out better than I expected despite the problem I encountered. I would like to experiment and try more brews, but the cost of grains in such small amounts is not a very efficient way of...

So sorry for the months late reply.. Life happens to throw too many curve balls my way.. and I think its going to be like this for the rest of my life.. I may not be able to hop on this site as regularly as I would like. But to answer Topher: I think the amount used depends on the style of...

so I tried to make some sweet potato beer and it took a lot of potato to get a decent OG. anyway it tasted quite awful and had the consistency of saliva.. so all in all a disaster. I would not recommend making sweet potato beer.. Glad I only made a very small amount..

thanks Kono, I know of one farmers market where they sell honey at a good price but its not local to me and I think they only come round every 4 weeks.. its in Pyrmont I think. I suppose I could just buy the 30KG, and make a shite load of Mead.. but I'm not that good at mead making, still...

I was thinking of getting a 30KG bucket of honey from a seller in Stanmore.. works out to $7.50 per kilo.. Only problem is, I don't need 30kg.. so I wanted to put the feelers out and see who may be interested and how this bulk buy thing works, I have never done one before. Also, I just want to...

I just found this http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=154306 which has a method for making Sweet Potato Malt... very interesting.. this is what I will try next.. only thing is I need the quantities

sounds a bit vomity... I wouldn't be brave enough to try it

one of the recipes for Cock Ale calls for 2 quarts of Sack wine and 1 Large old cock.. in the method it says "the older the better" Damn! I said no joke.. I couldn't help myself.

I found a recipe for Cock Ale AKA 'Capon Ale' in my book 'A Sip Through Time' by Cindy Renfrow.. some recipes add the Chook boiled, some add it raw.. I always thought what I'd do with my chooks once they stopped laying.. Please no dick jokes -_-

lol :lol:

I grated the sweet potato and then followed the same steps as my wheat beer, I wanted to cook the potatoes starches but not destroy the enzymes.. I made a second attempt at cooking the potato, this time in the oven at 70 degrees for two hours it was still not cooked, but sweet honey like liquid...

well I have done a sample batch, I used around 700g of sweet potato and held it at mash temp for around 90 mins at that time it had no conversion at all so I added 5 drops of dry enzyme and kept it at temp for another 90mins, when I checked its preboil sg was 1.010 I boiled it down to less than...