Recent content by James Squire

G'day Tony, Just put down a variation of your recipe with EKG subbed for the Cascade. I'll let you know how it turns out. Cheers mate, JS.

G'day Simon, Good luck with the rebuilding. I hope you are up and going again without too many hitches. Love all your brews. Cheers. JS

My first Brett beer. Murray's Anniversary Ale 3 bought from Port Stephens winery on a recent holiday.

Hi all, perfect timing for me. All out of brewery cleaner. I'm in, Berwick pickup would be fine for me. Wolfy 5.0kg = $20 ??? Barry_r 2.5Kg Maple 5.0Kg Mario 2.5kg Haysie 2.5kg James Squire 2.5kg Cheers Wolfy, JS.

Should be up and running again now Doug. JS.

Crundle, To clarify my point about the boil, the 2400W urn definately boils the wort. It just takes time and never really boils as vigourously as I would like. When I did use the urn as a boiler, I would initially run the urn plus an immersion element to bring to the boil quickly and...

Hi Crundle, I also have a Jomack Urn. I initially used it in my 'All in one brewery' for a similar purpose to BIAB. Although I only brewed using this method for a short while, it did a fantastic job and even brewed an award winning beer! I have since moved on to traditional 3 vessel AG brewing...

Double brew day today. This one is now finished: Irish Red 20L 1.048 28IBU 32EBC 4.0 Kgs Golden Promise 0.5 Kgs Light Crystal 0.25 Kgs Caraaroma 40g EKG @ 60min 15g EKG @ 5min Wyeast 1968 London ESB Ale The next one is now finishing the sparge: Special Bitter 20L 1.049 39 IBU 20 EBC 4.5...

Berwyck, I'll throw my hat in the ring. If ZABOND does not follow through with the purchase then I am interested in the CO2 cylinder. I take it that the cylinder is the 6.8Kg one? JS.

G'day Fourstar, Thanks for the vote of confidence! :P How do you use the rice? Do you use flaked rice or plain rice? I have given plain rice a go for this and just cooked the kilo up with a 1:2 rice to water ratio till nice and gluggy and added it to the mash. JS.

Opening 2009's account with a Yankee Rice Lager. 3Kgs Pils 1Kgs Steamed White Rice Cluster @ 60 to 20IBU W34/70 OG- 1.045 FG- 1.012 Never brewed with Rice before, should be a laugh. It's going to be a cubed, no-chiller too so I'm hoping for the best. JS

Just finishing the boil on my first ever Saison. Will no chill overnight and pitch some 3726 Farmhouse onto it tomorrow. Looks like this yeast is the strain of the week! Looking forward to drinking this one! Cheers.

Wow, great attenuation Jye! I had heard it was an active bugger of a yeast strain. What was your FG if you don't mind me asking? The fermenting fridge is tied up at the moment so I plan to just let this one run its own course in the Melbourne weather. It looks like low 20's for the next few...

I've got the grain cracked and ready for an early start tomorrow on my first Saison. Recipe as follows, any comments are welcome. The Silly Saison 20L Batch size 3.0 Kgs Pils malt 0.75 Kgs Wheat malt 0.50 Kgs Light Munich malt 0.10 Kgs Caraaroma 10g POR @60min 60g Styrian Goldings @60min...

Hi Kev, Great question. I'm probably not the best person to answer but... I would expect over the time we are talking that the fruit will break down to some degree, but perhaps not enough to add much volume. The fruit definately displaces the liquid somewhat, I do expect to lose some volume to...