Recent content by damoncouper

Crown lager is rubbish, end of story.

What makes a beer premium? It is sufficient to add a squirt of liquid noble hops? It just seems that everything is adding the word premium to its title in beer land. I think that they should substantiate the premium title, what are your thoughts?

Mark, you might want to consider insulating Kettly too. I have found that once upto a roling boil I am only using about 1200-1400W for a 35-40L boil.

Go the caustic wash.

I know amongst older people, ie over 30 ;-) , beer consumption does seem to be more common. But amongst most of my friends, mid 20s, wine is all the go.

Whilst sniffing around the internet I stumbled across this, http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/EGIL, an overview of the Hop industry within Tasmania. One of the thing they state is that , In the developed world (including Australia, Western Europe and the USA) beer drinking is either...

Hi All, I was wondering what you AG people use cans of goop for? Constructive things I mean. I was wondering if it could be a suitable substitute for dry malt extract in creating starters. If you did not add sugar would you be able to get about 10 1 litre starters out of a can? You could...

It looks like the LCA03 have a round bottom and the LC9025-UU have a V bottom with a rim around it. As a result I would get the LC9025-UU and it can stand on its own which would come in handy from time to time. You still need a stand to keep them neat but being able to stand on their own would...

I am not sure that you can compare the two dollar wise. A keg system with three kegs is going to cost a fair bit(3xkeg,3xtaps,fridge,gas bottle hire,fittings). An AG setup is nowhere near that unless you are going for the gold plated solution. I have yet to make the jump to kegs as I do not...

Hello fellow fruit beer brewers. I was wondering if you have any suggestions at the rate that dry pectic enzyme/ pectinase should be added during fruit fermentation? I am planning on making a cherry beer. Cheers.

You might want to look into what variety they are too. I was on the hunt for malting barley seed to have a play with and could not find it here within the ACT. If any one has some least they would be greatly appreciated. I could find feed barley but from what I could gather it has high...

Thanks for that. I have all the extra ingredients already ;-) so that makes it easy.

This may seem a tad absurd but unlike most brewers I never did any K&Ks. I jumped straight into the all grain but I want to try a goop in a can to see how it is. I really don't want to set out to make the most horrid brew that I can, I would like a good representation of what a kit can do...

I have been using the schedule Zwickel suggested roughly for some time and it has been a winner. I have not experimented though.

Wouldnt the hoppynes die down with age? I accidentally used Target (9%) instead of Saaz (3.5%) once. The beer came up really well after about two months. I did hit it with every fining agent I had though. I think I used gelatine, polyclar and copperfloc or something at the end of the boil...