Recent content by JimC

Aargh just missed it! :P If for some reason adz decides not to take the chiller, then I'd be very happy to give it a good home. ps McHenry your PM inbox is full

I knew I'd seen a post about Vanilla Porter recently. Just thought I'd post an extract recipe that I literally just racked to secondary on top of 3 split & scraped Madagascan beans. It's the first time I've bothered doing a secondary fermentation, and I didn't soak the beans in alcohol...

Awesome. I'm pretty sure I filled two empty Dreadnaught bottles with an APA last weekend. :rolleyes: Obviously de-labelled now, so no chance of checking use by dates. My guts are thankfully still intact atm, but I'll have to laugh if it's weakened glass and I get my first ever bottle bomb...

Having just completed both certificates a few weeks ago, I tend to agree with you, and the OP. The guy who was conducting both courses had been in the hospitality/pub management business for many years. During the RSA, the gigantic elephant in the room was the fact that practically everyone in...

For around $15 you can grab yourself an auto-siphon. That's what I've used with my 11.5L carboy. Bottling spigot on the end of some tubing and straight into the bottles. Worthy investment if you plan on using it for a few brews.

Never tried it in my own brewing, but a mate of mine just got back from Singapore where he said he saw a beer menu almost exclusively comprised of different kinds of 'flavoured' Hoegaarden. I personally thought this was a pretty obscure find in Asia. He said he tasted one flavoured with some...

That was sort of my thinking as well, but something about it didn't quite sit right with me. From the sounds of your brew I should be pretty glad I checked on here first!

Great, thanks Wolfy - looks like that might be the go. Now I can put the spare carboy to better (and hopefully tastier) use, and feed a bunch of starters to boot :)

Thanks for the replies. @Lodan - It's about 60g of leftover crystal i wanted to use up Using it for starters isn't a bad idea. There's no risk of the starters taking on any of the flavour of the Cooper's kit and imparting it to any beer I pitch it into, is there? And if I'm not using it all at...

G'day all, In the hope of moving to AG sooner rather than later, I want to use up the lonely last tin of Coopers Real Ale goop in the cupboard. I don't really want to waste too many other ingredients on this, since I've brewed a couple of recipes using this tin in the past and have found that...

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Awesome, thanks for that. I'll wait to hear from you then.

Hi Jez, I'd certainly like to take it off your hands, but do you reckon you could give me the dimensions of the fridge before I commit? Space is limited at my joint and SWMBO would freak if I brought it home and it didn't fit. Cheers

The rhizomes arrived safe n sound a couple of days ago. Thanks DrSmurto! :icon_cheers:

As far as priming goes, try searching "bulk priming with a syringe" on this forum or Google. When I first started out I found this method great as it gives you total control over your priming rate, without the hassle of racking to secondary. :icon_cheers: