Recent content by MrChoat

Reviving an old thread with the end results. I had about 5 bottle bombs out of about 30 stubbies. The carbonation was a tad high in the rest of them, but I couldn't tell if it was bottling early that caused it or the bad weather we had a few weeks back in Brisbane. I had left a box full of...

The thing is you need to make a sandwich. The first layer is a square about the size of a centimetre, cut from a page of Tolkien's The Silmarillion, glue that to a slightly smaller square from James Joyce's love letters to Nora, dust hetween the layers with the powder taken from dried cane toad...

Cheers for the concern guys, I'm just going to leave them in the box they're in for a few months. Its a cardboard box under an area no one can get to, and it's taped shut. The the krausen had disappeared and there was no more activity visible on top through the glad wrap, so I doubt anything...

Should be interesting, they're in green glass stubbies, tucked away in the box the stubbies came in, hidden in the basement on a rack over a dirt floor. I was predicting they'd stop at about 1010 but i could be wrong. How many days until bottles usually go boom? Just in case I get woken...

Bottled today at fg 1016. Tastes OK, it has mellowed out a lot from the fruit. Reminds me a bit of the Bundaberg peach flavoured soft drink, still sweet, just a little spicy. Didn't bother priming as I suspect the ferment wasn't finished, will update again in a couple of months if it turns out...

Yep, I'm liking Amarillo. I racked this off yesterday and I could drink it from the fermenter, these hops seem to go well together but will hold off till couple of weeks after I keg it before I say its a success.

How many litres? 4kg of malt seems a bit much for 21 or 23l. A short boil like that will result in a fruity american pale ale, if you want to bump the bittering up a bit into IPA territory, boil for an hour and start with about 7g galaxy at 60min as the bittering hop, then continue with the...

Quick update. I was running out of room in the freezer today so I decided to throw it in a fermenter and hope for the best. All up there was 3kg of the cherries and the trees are still fruiting like crazy. I've found about 15 of the trees of which 4 were fruiting, and the rest look like...

Cheers guys, found what I needed.

Hi, I'm chasing a cheap tap so I can keep a keg of soda water alongside my beers so there's a non alcoholic option for the non drinkers. It doesn't need be pretty, as long as I can mount it through the door, pourwater and shut it off properly I'll be happy. If anyone has an old tap laying...

Alright then, if its as good as you say I'll have to believe you. I'm gonna get some from craftbrewer, if they have any. Their websites usually up to date, looks like they have pellets. If not, I have a mate coming back from kiwiland shortly, and his wife is staying for a few months, might try...

Just read this and got intrigued about riwaka. Craftbrewer has them in stock, but at $16 for 90g and no bulk sales, they'd want to be worth it. How would you describe the flavour, and what style of beer is it best in? I want to try make a pilsner next, would these suit?

Never thought of that.. The carbonation wouldn't hurt anything?

I used Vic Secret in place of galaxy in the past. It was nice, not as fruity as galaxy but still lots of aroma and made a very easy drinking pale ale.

Cheers for the tip. It drinks OK, its not one of my better ones though, I threw it on alongside an IPA I was doing because damned if I'm only making one batch on a brewsday. I'll usually do one extract and one quick and easy while I'm doing the hop additions on the extract.