Recent content by GundyBrewer

ESB, inspired by the Super Landlord on the recipe database. 83.3% Golden Promise 8.3% Munich 3.3% Caraaroma 5% Torrified Wheat EKGs to 30 IBU - first wort hopped (weeell thrown in straight after I pulled the grain bag out anyway) 1 Styrian Goldings plug into the no-chill cube Wort...

I'd been trying to think of a use for that stuff for ages...

I took a sample of the krausen from side of the fermenter, put it in a glass, filled it with some Hahn Premium Light and covered it with Glad Wrap. I set up a control next to it, poked air holes in the Glad Wrap and left them for a while. That's the result of the experiment after 10 days. It...

Last time I dry hopped I sanitised an empty plastic bottle, put marbles in the hop bag and tied it around the neck if the bottle. That way the hops were suspended in the middle of the beer.

I started BIAB pretty recently myself and didn't get my target OG with my first couple of brews either. I can think of a couple of things that might help you out. The first thing is to do a mash out, where you raise the temperature to 77-78 after the 60-90 min at 65-68. There's a recent thread...

I am far from experienced, having never used either 1272 or 1056, but I used 1217 recently and thought it was really good. From what I could tell, the description you've got is pretty accurate. I fermented it at 17C and couldn't pick up any estery or yeasty flavours in the resulting beer, and...

I haven't got the thin film on the surface of mine, but I have got a couple of small milky white bubbles and those white chunks floating on top and sitting on the krausen at the sides that don't look great. I'll definitely take a sample of this white stuff like you suggested and see what it does...

I went to do a gravity check on a stout I've had fermenting for a bit over a week this afternoon and found what looks like an infection. It's not a great photo but I think all those little white chunks originated on the krausen stuck to the sides of the fermenter. It looks a bit like...

I was in the bottle shop at the Barracks in Petrie Terrace there the other week and I might be imagining things but I think I recall seeing it there. If I am wrong, they do have some other stuff that I haven't seen in too many other places, like Samuel Smith's, Deschutes, Dogfish Head, Saison...

I had one in the new packaging earlier tonight and thought it was good. I've never had any bottles that have tasted bland or off myself but I did have some gushers last year.

Yeah I drank it just before. Grapefruit was still prominent, as well as a slightly skunked flavour was probably my fault for putting in the hall for a month. It was still pretty damn good. But still, not what I remember it as. Might be a mouthfeel thing, maybe a bit thinner now, and also less...

Yeah, two beers are better than one.

I'm into my Helles, my first lager. It's the reason for my rampant noob posting tonight. A little diacetyl, but malty goodness nonetheless. I never knew how good pale lager could be until I went to Munich and had Augustiner Lagerbier Hell. If anyone knows how to get that in Oz please let me in...

Yeah so I tried to put that in a table first time. 23.5L batch, to fill a cube. GRAINS % Type Wt in Kg 75.3 Ale Malt 5.80 9.1 Barley Roasted 0.70 5.2 Chocolate Malt 1200 0.40 5.2 Wheat Malt...

Brewed my first stout today, I've been looking forward to it. Really enjoyed it too. I might let this one sit in glass for a while to mellow out until the weather cools down. Never Go Back - Export Stout 90 minute Susan Boyle, BIAB, no chill, cube is doin laps in the pool at the minute...