Recent content by lordofthebottleshop

Pure Blonde. I'd rather have a glass of formaldehyde. At least it's not pretending to be a refreshing drink. Tooheys Pils also rates a mention, as does Extra Dry Platinum (partuclarly for the price they charge for that crap!)

Sounds like you're all gonna need a beer at the end of this. Good luck to everyone in the area - stay safe. Our thoughts are with you.

Almost all the kits I've made and/or tasted have the same underlying flavour (IMHO), unless you use a shit load of dry hops to mask it. Faced with a choice between kits and extract, I'd go the extract route every time. Some LHBS have some good 'extract' kits, where they bundle some grain...

SO after a couple of years of stategically leaving bottles around the kitchen, the missus has finally given me permission to start kegging :D . I've been looking around, and I'm a little confused as to the difference between ball lock and pin lock kegs. Would anybody happen to know if there is...

An upright freezer would be great if you can find one. I never managed to find one that I wouldn't have to modify for shelves, and as I mentioned, I'm a very lazy man. Mine is an all fridge, so getting the fermenter in and out is dead easy - just bear hug it. Even an upside down fridge/freezer...

'tis the season! :beer:

I wouldn't expect there to be, unless you had one of those old school combo's where the freezer was contained within the main body of the fridge. Even then, your fermenter would be sealed so it should be ok. Might be a pain to clean though.

An all fridge is great but a chest freezer is more efficient. I guess it depends on your budget, and what's important to you. I got a 370 all fridge from ebay because it was cheap and I couldn't be bothered lifting a full fermenter out of a bar fridge. As an added bonus, I can now ferment 2...

+1. I just did a brand new pot a coupple of weeks back with one of these. No lube nessecary. When drilling the pilot hole, put a couple of spots of masking tape over the spot you want to drill, just to make sure the bit doesn't slip all over the place.

Ahhhhhhh yeeeaaaaahhhh. B)

Apologies, it's not northern brewer, it's east kent goldings.

I just had a crack at one of these the other day. To my understanding, they use galaxy, summer saaz, and a bit of northern brewer for the grassy finish. I used 3.5kg of Pilsner, 1.5kg of Vienna, and 500g of carapils, but having read the bottle after I'd started it looks like they use pale malt...

For those in Sydney, it appears like they have a bar at St James owend by McLaren Vale. Had a whole bunch of signs out the front about the quality of their beer.... :huh:

I love beer inspired solutions to problems that never should have existed to begin with . Sure, he could have fit it with a crank or even a cordless drill, but why do that when you can harness the potential of uninsulated mains power? :icon_drunk:

I have wire shelves in my fermenting fridge - it seems to cope quite well when I put 2 shelves in one below the other. Doesn't seem nearly as flimsy as having just one. Just a thought, if it saves you having to make a new set of shelves. Hope the beer turns out well for you! :icon_cheers: