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I went to a liquor store on the stockist map yesterday looking for this beer, went to the fridges at the back and couldn't find it. Turned around and was about to leave when I noticed a few unopened cartons of it sitting on the floor amongst some other Little Creatures beers. I went up to the...

I'll sheepishly put my hand up for being the creator of the worst beer I've ever tried. It was one of my early attempts at brewing and consisted of a Brewcraft cerveza kit with lager yeast and the included dry enzyme. It was fermented over summer and kept 'cool' in a large insulated bag with...

Some liquor stores might give you a free kolsch glass if you buy a 4 pack of the Sunner kolsch, that's where I got mine from anyway.

A mate of mine talked to some of the guys at the brewery on the weekend, he reckons their next small batch will be an amber lager of sorts. He was right about the brown ale and the oatmeal stout so I've no reason to doubt his info.

I've only used dry enzyme once and the results were disastrous. I could fill a 1L stein to the brim with beer foam from maybe 20mls of actual beer no matter how carefully I poured it. I ended up tipping most of the beer down the sink and only needed about five or six 330ml bottles to fill up an...

Good beer this is, glad I managed to hunt it down. Most of the liquor stores that I visited while trying to find this didn't really know how popular it was going to be!

I've done this before, in my case the bottles didn't carb up because my bottling assistant didn't cap the bottles correctly - the bottles were twist tops. I should have checked them myself after however! Anyway after a few weeks when I discovered a few flat ones I chucked in about half a scoop...

I've managed to get a 1.5L Grolsch bottle from Dan Murphy's in Westminster, man it was awesome! :icon_cheers: I'm sure they sell the regular sized bottles as well.

My LHBS still sells the 3kg tins, I've never tried them before but was recently considering giving one a crack just to smash something quick out instead of the default Coops pale ale can. I've heard a few good things about the 3kg kits, but haven't heard much on the 4.5kg ones.

I made one of these about 3 weeks ago, followed the same hop schedule and basic ingredients as Tony's recipe but added in some dry wheat malt and partially mashed some vienna grain. Only bottled it last weekend but gave it a taste and it was pretty good, but I can't comment on how close it was...

I've had decent results from the addition of extra sugar with these ginger beer kits and the use of champagne yeast. The first Coopers ginger beer kit I made I used the provided yeast and the brew turned out flat, perhaps because I added too much sugar for the yeast to handle. :P I used to...