Recent content by mikeybycrikey

She'll be right. When yeast and hops are floating about it can muck with the taste of your beer. By the time it's finished carbonating in a bottle most of that stuff will form a nice lil plug on the bottom.

I'm pretty sure they don't provide any protection against oxygen. What they do offer protection against is drunken opening of beers that shouldn't be drank drunk.

There's ya problem. Once alcohol is involved you need to do some calcs to get a refractometer to read right. Beersmith mobile has a handy tool that does it.

Just did the same to mine TOF. Just machined a slightly bigger groove. Hope it works cos that slow dribble is mighty frustrating. Small leaks aside I'm really happy with my purchase of two brew buckets. Also ordered 50 replacement orings for $9.something shipped...

I really like the over the side elements. Portable and powerful.

1000mm wide x 600mm deep. 770mm high bench/mash level. 1170 high hlt level. 30 galvanised rhs for framework. Stainless bench top. I'm happy to weld in another piece of rhs if for some reason your mash tun is too small to fit my gap¿ (62L Marine esky shown in photo) Can have it for $100 or swap...

Information is power! (pm me plz)

Oh Beer Wan Ken Oh Bi. You did real good. The beer feels a lot thinner than 1.03something. Good.

Amazing what mspaint, plain office paper and milk can do to a bottle : p. I figure being homebrewers people wanna know what went into the beer as they drink it/pour it down the sink.

Beer is bottled and labeled. Ready to roll! Ended up as a big dubbel/small dark strong.

I brewed a dubbel for the swap last Sunday. Probably pitch yeast this weekend. Tweaked a few things I learnt from the last one, made an even better dark candy syrup. Real stoked for this event.

Nice cube squeezer/tilter. Was trying to visualise how to build one the other day at work.

1. Neander - Robust Porter 2. Jono1492 - Oak Aged Coffee Milk Stout(for now) 3. James nvs - possibly oak aged brown 4. Dent - probably some porter 5. Major Arcana - probably an oatmeal 6. Jyo - Black AIPA or macadamia cookies and cream Wit. 7. spoonta - ris 8. Keifer33 - Raspberry Porter 9...

Mine leaked a bit, took it apart and it was quite a simple assembly. Two new O rings later and the gas stays where it needs to be.

Cracked jyo's blonde. Love it. What yeast did you use? Also side note. I tried one of my bitters last night. Bit embarrassed. If anyone wants a beer refund next time they're down Armadale way I'll be happy to provide you with a better, less "old extracty" tasting beer.