Recent content by hijax

Thanks very much for the feedback and grammar lessons. Much appreciated! Time to go brew that LAGER!

Good point. I didn't think of that!

Hey all. I am wanting to start putting down a few largers and not sure how the unstable, low temps will effect the beer. I'm down in tassie and the garage where I brew sits at a pretty stable 10 degrees for about 85% of the day. But at around 4 or 5 am can drop as low as 3 degrees. Just...

G'day mate I brew in southern Tasmania all year round in my shed using an immersion aquarium heater. It holds fermenting temps really well and I don't find them hard to clean at all.

Cheers camo! That makes perfect sense. Dr Smurto, does this apply for all your other recipes in the database? Do you pretty much always have a 10-20 min wait after flameout?

Thanks for the reply Dr Smurto! Cant wait to give it a go. :beer:

Looking at putting this down as my first biab/no chill this weekend. Any no chillers out there recommend a tried and tested hop schedule that works well for them? Was thinking: 15grms @ 60min 20grms @ 0mins 20grms french press. Still a bit confused about converting hop schedules to nc. Did...

pm'd re mill and ball valve

Hi guys, planning on putting down a brew tonight with ingredients i have on me. Just wondering what people thoughts are on this hop schedule. I dont really have any idea, just trying things. can anything be improved? Ive got stacks of nelson and centenial and also got 20grms of amarillo...

G'day all, I am trying to slowly get set up to do ag/biab and im after a cheap mill? I really cant afford to buy a new one at this stage unfortunetly. Just thought i'd put it out there encase anyones got a spare kicking round they'd want to sell. Thanks

G'day mates, Ive been fermenting Franko's all juice cider recipe, slightly modified and it has been sitting at 1006 for a bit over a week. Recipe was 18 ltrs of apple juice 3 ltrs of apple/pear juice 1 ltr of pear juice 250 grms of light dried malt extract 200 grms of lactose wyeast cider...

Damm.....never quick enough! Id love to take it if it happens to fall through.

If your keen to split up some of the items let me know.

Wellington Springs out in moonah sometimes have old ones they dont want. Give em a bell. http://www.wellingtonsprings.com.au/ I use one as a ghetto fermenter.

Thanks for all the great advice guys. Have taken it all onboard and tweaked the recipe again. I think its looking pretty good now. Will put this one down tonight and report back. Thanks again. :) Recipe: 23 - Extract APA TYPE: Extract Style: American Pale Ale ---RECIPE...