Recent content by Marmaduke

thanks guys, I might have to check out this Amarillo stuff, I really do love the JSGA - great as a lager substitute for the ale addicts among us haha

this is a very amateur question, but: a) is there any point in putting gypsum in a kit/extract beer? B) do you add it to the water before making the wort, or into the finished wort? (I am nth suburbs of Brisbane too, Alderley to be precise)

I'm considering doing something like this quite soon, how did this recipe come out?

awesome, sounds quite easy cheers. This will be my project for the weekend. Next weekend I intend to set up a fridgemate thingy to my spare fridge to controll the temp for my fermenting. Brisbane weather has been anything from 20C to 32C...which cant be too good for my beer, I have 2...

hey, thanks very much for the help everyone! I have found in my past few weeks of reading up on homebrew that 95% of what I read is either contradictory, doesnt make sense/full of jargon or isnt explained well enough for me to understand :blink: haha so some good straight answers are really...

HI, I've only recently started brewing and have been experimenting with kits and extracts - so far reasonably happy with the results. However I have been looking at ways to improve my beer, namely through decanting the beer after primary fermentation into a second fermenter and letting it sit...

Hi, I'm Jon from Brisbane. Did my first brew a few years ago and it didnt turn out so good - but now I'v started again, on a bigger scale and am having much success!

had some trappistes Rochefort 10 the other day that was a special drop, at $12 a bottle it was a bit of a splurge. other favourites are: -Fullers ESB -Old Peculiar -Fullers London Pride -James Squire Porter (only a few though) and -James Squire Golden Ale on a hot day and I dont mind Carlton...

I would have to say that the 'carlton cold shot' "beers" were amoung the foulest I have endured, if they classify as beers. I also really dislike XXXX Gold and Reichs (some cheap crappy Australian Pilsner), and of course the generic carlton cold is quite foul also (edit) and how could I...