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I bought it at Clark Rubber because I was short on time and they are located much closer than my LHBS and I (probably wrongly) assumed they should know their product. It has "Food Contact CVT" printed along the length but the smell is very off-putting. Searching online since I've found a...

Hi All, I wasn't able to find an existing thread on the same so apologies in advance for creating a thread surplus to the same. Due to certain factors I've neglected both kegs in my kegerator for a period of a about six months. Two months in, knowing I wouldn't be drawing any beer soon, I...

I really can't figure this one out, I figure one of you guys are probably wondering how I can't figure this out. Kegged a beer, had a taste after two days on the gas at pouring pressure and it was delicious but just a tiny bit flat. Four days after I could not pour a beer that didn't burp and...

Thought it might be worth mentioning that I was in (Geelong) Mitre10 last weekend and noticed that they had four or so varieties (Cascade, Willamette, something else) of hops rhizomes available in small pots at $20 each. Being the weekend, I can't even recall the brand/distributor, but it may...

Thanks for the fast response :); out of interest, do you how the vanillin is causing head retention? Unfortunately, I'm mostly a computer nerd and couldn't find anything in a quick search on it that I could readily understand the mechanism for doing so (heaps of results for homebrewers doing...

Bit of a funny one, wasn't too sure in which board to discuss it. Time constraints usually see me putting down a kit and kilo quickie on Sunday afternoon rather than touching anything resembling a grain. This, along with an unfortunate mixed Scottish/Jewish heritage usually see me making up a...

Apologies for necro-bumping this thread, but yeah; my fridge temp was too high. The really stupid thing was that after a few beers (usually when I post here and then **** with the fridge thermo) I had tried dialling the temperature down gradually, but had somehow been turning the thermometer...

I'm kind of in the same boat here - I've only recently moved to kegging, and my beers are great for the first week or two, and then they turn into a flat-bodied brew with too much head. I've tried running off a (wasted) litre of beer until any bubbles empty out of the line, but it seems that on...

Manticle; you're right. It's shit and there should be no more of it. I (in a lot of vague and uncertain terms) tried to suggest that this current media "epidemic" seems to focus mostly on victims affected by a culture of hard drug use, but also makes the fallacy of associating the abuse rate...

I'm sorry, I normally just lurk - but I had to bite at this bait. What on earth makes you think that making something illegal or, as quoted in the linked article, "unAustralian", would ever cause it to stop? I'm pretty sure that the last thing running through anyone's head as they subject...

Quite a few years back after my first few kit and kilo brews I decided top step it up into the big leagues by mistreating some crystal in hot water and dry-hopping my beer a couple of days out from bottling. For some reason I can still recall sitting a K&K PoR dry-hopped beer as being...

I guess I'm a glass half-empty type of guy - less worried about my consumption, more worried about supply.