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I read that traditionally,when serving these wheat beers, often they're rolled to mix up the yeast. Do you guys 'roll' your homebrew bottles atleast for weizens/wits?

Are you using a Lager or ale yeast? Ale yeast can't break down raffinose, a trisaccharide which is a main source of farts when the bacteria in your guts breaks it down. Lager yeast will give it go, perhaps thats why lagers often smell like a fart when fermenting.

Found this Looks like they have a joint venture with SABmiller who have over 200 brands...

aquabrew I do the same thing, i bought the howtobrew 3rd edition book, his process for boiling etc has slightly changed from whats published on the net (1st edition), but still involves a lot of time etc...anyway I've made a few batches as per his instructions and the taste far superior to...

thanks guys just ordered the fridgemate and probe. Can't wait to try a lager! AndyD nice article mate, answered my questions. Skippy I reckon I'll do the same, i bought a can of coopers draught, lager and bavarian lager cheap at kmart, got a pile of dex, and dry malt and will try the kits...

Have acquired a 440 litre fridge and I'm thinking of buying a temperature controller. I'm tossing up between the fridgemate and the optional stainless steel probe or the DEI-105 which comes with the stainless steel probe. I'm sure this is not the first post about this but I really had troubles...

i just bought one of those coopers micro-brew kits and it came with that brewing sugar stuff and I'm wondering what to do with it also. But that sugar actually has maltodextrine in it not, light malt, maltodextrine isn't fermentable so i guess you'd need to use more in each bottle, how much...

probably can't answer that but i just bought a can of it. What was the recipe you used? Perhaps thats the best place to start?

Yeah i saw that recipe, but i'm making 5 litres less and using the same amount of ingredients. I'm still a noob, never done a toucan, we'll see how it goes then

I think I might go down and get one of those coopers setups myself - top value when you add it up even without the $20 off. New2brew, i think citymorgue is talking about the little wooden handcappers that you take a hammer to, not your high tech number.

Thanks Muggas, too late for that i think she's just started bubbling. Mt Colah hey? I'm just across the valley at hornsby heights, good to hear from a local!

Bought two cans of this at coles as on special at the moment, so I thought I'd try my first toucan. I'm thinking I bought the wrong kit for the purpose, tasted pretty bitter once I mixed it up. Added 500 grams dextrose for a 23 litre batch and using s-05 yeast. Had a look at various threads...

man i went to coles the other day and noticed every thing is on special, in fact half the crap in the store is on special, good specials too, going shopping tomorrow i think. Yeah and also the cascade kits are reduced.

I'm no expert, but Could you just get a big 25 litre stock pot and boil up the whole lot i.e. ingredients and water? However you would need some way of cooling it quickly..

That's okay then, my Girlfriend loves a bad fruity chardonnay.