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Thanks Thirsty - very comprehensive, and will keep me occupied for hours!

Thanks Warren - just what I needed

Hi All I am new to all this and I have a vague notion that I might want to enter a competition. So how does one find out about upcoming competitions? It would seem that this is the right place in the website for this info, but I can tell you that, for a newbie, it is confusing. The posts talk...

Thanks folks for all the advice - I'm now even more confused than I was. I guess the answer is what works, works. It is interesting that in all the responses no one actually referred to their own disaster, although there was the odd story of disaster having befallen someone else. I am only...

I posted this question in the FAQ thread of the "kts and extracts" section and got few responses. So let me post it again. The FAQ includes advice to new brewers and, under bottling says: "Wash out all your bottles with brewery detergent and a bottlebrush. Rinse thoroughly and they are ready...

Thanks for that, but I was really more interested in whether I needed to sterilise at all. The long advice in the FAQ seems to suggest that sterilising bottles is not necessary, just make sure they are clean. Is this what other brewers are doing?

Thanks for the info. I am new to the forum but not really to home brewing. I was interested to read the info for new breweres in particular the preparation of bottles. I have always sterilised and rinsed my bottles before filling them - is this unecessary? I only recently graduated to using a...

I have 64 750ml crown seal bottles for sale at 50c each (what I paid). The bottles are washed but not in boxes, so bring boxes if you want them. I can also give them to you in 4 boxes (sturdy black plastic, each box taking 16 bottles) but the boxes will cost $5 each (again, what I paid). PM...