Recent content by jonocarroll

Hi AHBers, long time no see. Also long time no brew for me, so these fridges are up for sale (plus one more once I unearth it from the depths of my shed). Westinghouse 221l Aurora Fridge Working condition, needs a clean. Has been used for homebrew (fits a standard fermenter or a corny keg)...

I tried making a 5-min-IPA sorbet and it... it was a little bitter. My thinking is that any sweetness or overriding flavour was completely lost at those temperatures, but the bitterness shone through just fine. Will have to give choc-stout ice cream a go I reckon. Some Young's Double Choc Stout...

Cheers for that - I did read the morebeer page before starting. The spreadsheet you linked to seems to more or less agree with my preliminary calculations. My boil times might need to rise a little, but I think this is on track. As for the recipes... ?

I should probably add - if any Adelaidians are interested in pointing out all my mistakes in person on the 8th of Sept, drop me a line.

Heya folks, it's been a while. Too long. "Hi" to those whom I haven't seen IRL. I haven't actually brewed since late 2011 (the new brew-assistant is nearing 15 months old, I've done maybe two batches in that time), so I'm probably a little rusty around the edges. Anyhoo, I figure I'll do a...

Can't stay, I'll just leave this here...

I never did get around to staining the other handles, or finishing the current ones for that matter. On the plus side, I now *do* have a lathe, and will be having a crack at making my own handles from scratch someday. I'll be using plain ol' boring pine though - have you seen the cost of good...

Well, hell, Smurto - I've been in and out of hospitals for the last 5 weeks, so I must have missed that one. Congrats to you too! She [daughter] is finally waking up enough for boob juice regularly (great at it, just lazy) that she will be out of the special care unit tomorrow. I guess it's...

After 5 long weeks in hospital thanks to odd but inconclusive test results, Mrs QB has not-so-spontaneously emitted a daughter particle this morning, weighing in at 4lb 13oz (not too shabby for 36.5 weeks). 10 fingers, 10 toes, and a good tendency to sleep. Oh, and the baby's fine too. Brews...

Looks like I'm alone on the poll at the moment in the 'love it' category, but I'm a scientist with heaps of freedom in an interesting (to me) field, decent (by my standards) pay, funded international travel and the ability to work from home (as I'm doing now) <anticipates punch to the face>. If...

Or, you know, live in SA where it's common. No. You fail once again. Do you spend a lot of your time posting to news comment sections? The closest you come to a decent trolling is posting 'did I troll them?' repeatedly here, though I suspect that's unintentional trolling at best. So far your...

The iPhone actually learns (and apparently forgets) over time - e.g. if you use a misspell a frequently-used (by you) but non-common name it offers it up as a suggestion. It will also apparently stop suggesting something if you reject it enough times. Of course, you need to have previously used...

More hilarity: http://damnyouautocorrect.com/

The Last Continent if you want to ease into things - little character development, but full-on Australian parody, so I have a feeling you will particularly like this one.