Recent content by dgilks

Just had a Westvleteren 8 and what a magnificent beer it was. It is full of rich fruit flavours and aromas with pleasant notes of cherry, apple and pear as well as dark fruits. The spice profile is great with mild notes of anise and clove with a nutmeg note also coming through. The malt...

Given the ease of AG homebrew and the fact that you save next to nothing by using BOPs (remember you have to pay excise at BOPs), why bother? Surely, you'd be better off teaching him to brew properly on your set up or coming along to a Canberra Brewers meeting and bringing him along to learn a...

I like to add a touch of EKG to American IPAs to add a touch of earthiness and a different type of citrus character. It really works. As for the comments about balance in AIPAs. The only balance you need is enough malt to support the hops. What you don't need is the buckets of crystal that some...

It is a very good beer and it definitely is true to an American IPA and is one of the few Australian examples that doesn't use overbearing amounts of crystal malt.

I'm doing the same as you at the moment. I'm looking at the MM3 just for the extra bling more than anything but I don't thing the stainless or 1/2 inch is necessary. The 1/2 inch is also useless if you plan to hand crank. On the face of those comments it looks like I'm going to get a good 50...

I'm fairly sure that Golden, Amber and Pilsner are all brewed at Yattala in SA. Sundowner was supposed to be moving there (as of May). Porter, IPA and special releases (excepting Malt Runner) are all done at Camperdown. I believe that a very small number of batches of the Yattala beers are...

The answer is pretty bloody simple. None of them "won". None of them had a majority of people say they preferred it and the top two were separated by all of two votes. It's like the last federal election and we all know that the group with the second highest number of seats "won" there. Sure...

Thanks Kurtz, I thought it had been organised separately in the first instance but obviously I was wrong.

No, Greens voter. I'd suggest that assuming there is a substantial difference between BIAB and other forms of wort production, that the HERMS would producer a result closer to gravity than to BIAB and if the voting was preferential, that the votes from HERMS would tilt 70 to 90% to gravity. Yes...

That's a very narrow plurality, not a win (unless this is a US election). Add up the "traditional" systems and you have a clear win and a fairer representation. I have nothing against BIAB but don't like people claiming a result which isn't.

ACT won Champion State/Club. Craig Webber of the ACT won Champion Brewer. Brendan O'Sullivan of WA was runner-up Champion Brewer.

Or an American IPA with Belgian yeast.

Without having tasted the beer, I have trouble seeing 10% CaraAroma being anything other than a sweet mess in any beer. How low are you mashing and what gravity are we talking about?

I've heard great things about combining American hops with EKG and noble hops. My next bitter is going to be a combination of EKG and Cascade.

No, but at the same time, it pisses me off that a few upstarts with a good ad agency can market a beer on the ideal that they will eventually be an organic, local farm based brewery while others are struggling along actually doing it. If they thought that terroir and quality in beer actually...