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I just added 2 liters of blended mango cheeks to my wheat beer in secondary & it turned an awesome orange colour! So excited for this brew.

I spent yesterday sweating up a storm over a stovetop partial since my urn is temporarily outta action... thank god an actual storm finally came by and broke the heat!

Surprise, surprise... 800g of roasted pumpkin in your mash leads to a damn sticky mash!

500g of simcoe and citra received, thanks Hoppy Days! I couldn't find it anywhere else

Bloody hell, QLD Case Swap night better not be this freakin' cold. Get ready to stoke up that keg-belly stove of yours Winkle!

I'm really getting into my malty English Bitter & ESBs. What's happening to me? I'm moving away from my hoppy IPAs towards malt driven beers, god help me - I might be drinking Stouts soon...

On a seven day course of antibiotics, which means seven days of no drinking! When did I get to the point where this is such a horrifying concept?!

Merry Christmas AHB, may your day be filled with good cheer & good beer!

Look out Perth, here I come... alright WA brewers; where can I get a decent drink in Perth?

Holy crap, Vienna malt - I think I'm in love!

Bottled one hefe & poured a cubed weisse straight onto the 3068 yeast cake. Holy crap; there was airlock action in under 5 minutes and 9 hours later there is already 12cm of krausen!

Lederhosen donned & I'm off to Brisbane Oktoberfest. W00t - see you on the other side AHB!

I'm noticing a few types of Gladfields malts popping up here and there. What's the verdict lads? Anyone made a nice brew with any of them?

I'm living wild and am going to brew a 10min American Pale Ale. All 120g of mixed hops added in the last ten minutes of the boil. A great way to use the last dregs of 6 packs of hops or rank stupidity? ...we'll have to wait and see.

Damn warm winter days! I had my brewfridge set to warming during the recent cold snap and now the weather turns warm and my fermenting beer warms up to 24'c only 2 days after pitching yeast! *facepalm*

Off to the Southbank Regional Flavours Festival to 'Meet the Brewer' of S&W. Hoping I might see some familiar faces there...

Three sleeps until the Qld Case-swap or as SWMBO likes to call it; 'Beer Camp'. As in "This one time, at Beer Camp..."

Traded in my $7 electric scales from Kmart for a $25 electronic jewellers scale after discovering how useless the cheap scale was at weighing anything below 50g (eg. hops).

I'm rebooting my yeast-bank after the flood losses. A packet of wyeast 2565 Kolsch splt 4 ways (3 for the freezer + one straight into a starter) is the first of my fresh start.

Had a foot of water all around and under the house over the weekend. My brewspace was flooded, the freezer with my little yeast bank + hops shorted out and then floated away. About half my brew gear was completely submerged. Ah well time to start over, bigger and better than before!