Recent content by kapone

I'm about to make a tree change to North East Victoria in the next few months, and am in the process of downsizing ahead of the big move. In the garage I have a collection of a little over 100 empty (and washed) beer bottles. Basically I've kept at least one bottle from every beer I've ever...

So continuing on my brew from this thread http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...showtopic=53012. So I've got a party on Saturday that I want to have a brew on tap for. Problem is, the Pale Ale I put down the other day isn't quite finished yet, and normally I like to cold condition my...

So last weekend I threw down a quick Coopers Pale Ale so I'll have something on tap for my son's birthday at the end of the month (I'll be kegging). Originally I was going to culture some yeast from a few bottles, but I didn't measure out the amount of dex (not realising the impact it would...

Thanks for the heads up on this. I normally don't shop at Coles, so I would have missed this. I picked up: 2x Coopers Pale Ale @ $6.89ea 1x Coles Home Brew Lager @ $4.66ea 1x Coopers Stout @ $5.19ea (last one left) 2x Coopers Australian Ale @ $5.19ea 1x Coopers Brew Enhancer #2 @ $3.29ea Now...

So any day now, I'm going to be a Dad. Just wondering if there are any simple recipes for a beer that I can cellar away for about 18 years? Obviously, if this can be done I'm expect it to not be a plain brew, but I don't have plain tastes myself, and when my son is old enough, I'd like to...

So, being the lazy bugger that I am, after brewing up my last brew (an MSB pale toucan with goldings) I left my test jar from which I took my OG reading sitting in the bathroom along with the fermenter. Several days later, and looking at my test jar I can see that I've got myself a second beer...

Mmmmm, swimming in beer. Sounds like fun! :P

For the last two weeks I've been putting off brewing as I thought I didn't have the time. Today I thought "Stuff it!", and decided to quickly brew up a toucan as my keg of Coopers Stout was getting pretty low. Recipe: 2x MSB Pale Ale cans 1x 15g goldings on the boil for 10mins 1x 15g goldings...

I just thought about it, and realised I can't have anything on tap tonight anyway, I've got to get my temps right down before I can even think about carbonating!

Yes, 1.011 was what I meant, thanks for catching that! I'm a bit keen to get something on tap ASAP as I've got mates around tonight. So I've transferred to a keg and a few bottles. Now to work out how to force carb this sucker. I've seen many techniques and tried a couple myself, but not sure...

So I did my first stout a little over a week ago, nothing fancy, just a Coopers kit. Took 1 can of Coopers Stout, 1k of Brew Enhancer #2 and topped the fermenter up to 23L, with the bog standard Coopers yeast getting pitched at ~25C. It absolutely took off like a rocket at first, but after...

It was awesome. I'm glad they did a three song encore as I missed half their show (was torn between seeing them and Lamb of God, after seeing both, I should have spent the whole time at the NIN show, they were awesome on stage). It was pretty special to see Alice in Chains as well, and Unearth...

Well I ended up doing a mixture of the above suggestions, but not on purpose. I left it to thaw, adjusted the fridge temperature and then put it back in the fridge for carbonation. Left it to carbonate at about 35psi for two and a bit days (meant to be only 48hrs but I forgot to turn the gas...

So I transferred my second ever brew (Brewcraft LCPA kit) to keg on Monday night, and made two, likely fatal mistakes. 1) I didn't check my brewing fridge temperature prior to putting the keg in. As a result, I've frozen it (it's almost slushy-like). 2) I forgot to gas the keg and purge the...