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Queensland Homebrewing Conference Almost Here - LAST CHANCE TO BOOK TICKETS! The 2017 Queensland Homebrewing Conference is almost here. Run every two years, this is one conference you will never forget! Aimed at home brewers of all levels, it is a day of education, fun and more than the odd...

Nick Wiseman, the Grainfather Rep will presenting at the Conference on double and triple mashing using the Grainfather to produce high-gravity worts. He will be displaying all the Grainfather equipment and will be running a lucky prize of one Grainfather Conical Fermenter for attendees.

Jut an update on the Conference: Two new speakers - Brennan Fielding from Burleigh Brewing and Steve "Hendo" Henderson, formerly of BrewCult fame. Both will be presenting in the morning. Cryermalt will be sponsoring the event and providing some 25kg bags of Weyermann grain as door prizes...

The Queensland Homebrewing Conference (QHC) is on again this year, on 13, 14 October. The conference will kick off on Friday night, 13 Oct, with a mystery bus tour - 2 bars and three breweries. Tickets sold separately and will include the bus and 2 beers at each brewery. We will be picking...

Hi. No news on the date for QHC, but the conference is definitely on. Possibly in August with a general theme of brewing on the fringes. We are looking for topics that will extend home brewers to try different ingredients, processes, equipment, etc. Any suggestions welcomed. Stay tuned...

Wade Curtis from 4 Hearts will be doing a presentation on low alcohol beers. I have had to do a few low alcohol beers in times past (due to Doctor's orders and sky-high cholesterol levels!). It's no easy thing to make a decent one. And as we are all responsible consumers of alcohol, and...

The QHC Program is now posted on the website. There should be something for everyone and with the amount of knowledge all together in one place, you should get an answer to just about any question you have! All shaping up really well. See you there.

The beer and freebies list keeps growing! Four more beers to enjoy - Fortitude Brewing have signed on to provide a beer from each of their arms - Fortitude and Noisy Minor. Ben Krause at Bridge Road has offered to supply a keg. And local brewer, Wade Curtis, at 4 Hearts, will be giving us a...

Having read all the concerns about our shops around town, we have set up a new arrangement for AG brewers that want to buy cheap bulk grain. All the details are in the Retail section of this site, but the short of it is we will be doing 25kg Ale and Pils for $47.50. Others are also relatively...

HI. The Brewers Choice Stores at Chapel Hill and Gaythorne have Australian Ales and Pils at $3.50/kg, dropping to $3/kg when you buy 25kgs. Speciality malts range from $4.20 dropping to $3.65 (Munich, Crystal), to about $6.60 dropping to $5.95 for the more expensive ones (Caramalt), depends on...

HI. Brewers Choice Chapel Hill (formerly Western Suburbs Home Brew) and Stafford carry a bunch of grain and can source others that are needed. Cheers David

HI, we just bought two Valley Mills from Canada for our shops and they seem to be pretty effective. They can send them out stripped down to just the rollers and casing, and a large hopper that packs pretty flat. 2 of them cost us about $576, including freight. Service from Valley Mills was...

:( Thanks for your concern. The young lady in question is shaken but fine. She is made of pretty tough stuff. Don't worry, Brewers Choice at Wacol will be up and running again on Monday. No low life scum is going to stop us drinking beer or providing it to those who need it. Cheers David

Does anyone know where you can source a good heavy duty grain mill in Australia? I can only find US ones on the web, and it will take months to get something across from there now its Christmas. I am happy to contract another home brewer to build one, as long as they are less mechanically...

Hi all. In response to the interest in melaniodin, we have arranged for 10kgs to be stocked in the Chapel Hill store. A hand grinder will be delivered there tomorrow so if you want some, come and get it. Still in search of a grinder but should resolve that in a day or two. Cheers