DJ_L3ThAL

Does that make this a private message in a bottle in a bottle?

Sending out an S.O.S.

Now THAT's a hard day's work, DJ (&n87)! I reckon you'd need a beer or two afterwards ;-)

...plus the 73 during :P

Summer stocks looking the goods, nice effort

You're catholic?

I'd love to visit some day...

Jedi

It was completely dead! Gave it 48 hrs on stir plate and gravity did not budge. RIP vegemite yeast, although it already was.

48 hours is not long enough for visible signs if a small live sample in a larger starter, in my experience. Not saying it wasn't mutated, though.

I picked the wrong beer I want to ferment to be trying to bring suck old slurry back to life. Patience was not an option this time as brewing for a bucks party. It will be scoffed by drunkards so a healthy dose of dry lager yeast will suffice!

Looks good.

Thanks mate!

Can I change my name to NickJD2?

Only if you get rid if your shiny taps and keg fridge and turn half the food fridge into a keg fridge and serve only out of picnic taps.

you get to come out and admit you don't rehydrate your yeast..

You what now? Mine still reads 0 for water after god knows how long

Denial is the best efficiency Nath!

Haha, yea when I bought it I calibrated the scale to 0.000 with distilled water. Thought that was it "calibrated"... talking with Spiesy, he has found it changes over time. Got home that day and checked mine with distilled water and it read 0.004 :S

Think denial is the most logical suggestion I've heard =D

God speed.

Will do mate (caveat: only if it's GOOD)! ;-)

Been a while for me and galaxy, looking forward to it. Just brewing my swap beer tonight.. Not sure which cube it'll be yet ;)

The question is whether to balls up and dry hop it as well!?!?!

http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/78403-2014-vic-xmas-in-july-case-swap/

Gonna bottle my swap beer today. You guys are making it sound a bit boring though!

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder...

btw, was the best smelling ferment I've ever had.

nice one mate, glad to hear you got the banana you were after!

Nice, just kegged mine using SN Kellerweis bottle harvested yeast. This yeast had a really funky(not bad just unusual) smell the first couple of days but smelt great after that.

Or so you hope!

Just move to Tasmania, there's nothing of that sort here. Mail order and use the spare time to brew.

haha I like that idea LRGI !

Someones gotta fight back... =D

Respect

Ftw!!

Kitchen? Medical? Bondage?

hehe, you missed the topic that was deleted then!

Did I arrive late to this party? This is what happens when i don't check in for a few days.

after all that, I didn't make the starter.... tonight's the night!!!

mine was developing a nice krausen this morning :)

think mine brewed overnight, was only 700mL wort which I put about 200mL slurry (unrinsed) into, tasted clean but biter from the hops that were not rinsed out... pitched it into the FV this morning so fingers crossed =D

I think I cleaned my lines once this year.

past tense? have you stopped cleaning them altogether???

you're meant to clean the lines?

I like the cut of your jib

We've witnessed the birth of a new p0rn category, the homebrewing refracto-voyeur!

I stand at my kitchen window, eye glued to the site, as my hand furiously adjusts my refractometer, not thinking of the girl sunning herself in her tiny yellow bikini in the penthouse of the apartment next door.