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My first half decent beers where the ones I 2nd femented. Just sipping on an Amber Ale that was a kit recipe, i put it in the secondary 6 days after the primary. I tells ya its one of my favourites.

Cheers, thanks Mark

I dont think I'll be using the lid, only because I'm using it for 2nd fermenting. If I use glad wrap do I need to sanitize it? I was thinking 'no' because its food grade and all. Yeah chappo, that bug bit me hard.

Nice, I can get I few of these. Is it allright to use heat (say flame) to make the hole for the bung? Or will this turn out bad in terms of sanitization and the plastic breaking down?

Another success for me today, as well as going to Big W, and scoring a cheap 19L pot. I also went to bunnings and purchased one of these as a second fermenter. Just to be on the safe side I used a strong amount of sodium percarbonate to soake as soon as I got home, after 4 hours I rised it...

Yay :D . I went to Big W today and at first was a little dissapointed as the 19L stock pots were advertised as $20,and 7.6L were $12. But after going through the self-service check out I realised we only paid $12 for the 19L, Stoked, Thanks for the heads up Bribie.

Everyone to there own taste.

I've been using carbonation drops for 330-345-375ml bottles and not had one blown yet, but I've only been brewing for 3 months.

Hmm bad tastes, has anyone else had this? I was going to head to bunnings tonight but too tierd from work.

$30!! far out, i thought $20 was a bit rich. $20 is the limit for me for a 6 pack. but I suppose its changes for where you are.

I'm going to start secondary fermenting ASAP, definetly headin down bunnings tomorrow after work.

I find it very hard to knock a Matilda Bay brew, what are you comparing with manticle? Alpha and 'now' Fat Yak are very close to my favourites at the moment (commercial beer wise). Bohemian Pisener was what got me into craft brewing.

Sounds good, I'll start looking for the ingredients tomoz. I've stiil got some learnig to do but this is my 'brew to aim for'. If I create something even similar I will be stoked.

Hi everyone I just got a six pack of Matilda Bays Fat Yak. I really like it for the hop flavour and aroma. Does anyone know what way I should be heading to make a beer like this?(Extract). I really dont care what peoples opinion for this beer is, I just really like it and if I could make...

I stopped using tap water a month ago. Not a big fan of the water where I'm from. I'm about a week away from trying my new bottled water brews, this will give me the decision wheather to continue using the bottled water or not. What I read somewhere was, if your water has strong chlorine or...