Recent content by Mullett

hi, I have 80 clean, unlabeled 750ml longnecks that are surplus to requirement and taking up space in the shed. Happy to give away but if you want the wooden crates I’ll want $35ea for those. Located eastern shore Hobart. Cheers

Have been using the style of coopers kit you're talking about for 2yrs now. I mostly use US05 or 34/70 yeast and don't use the krausen collar- never had a spill over. The whole kit is very easy to clean with no threads or deep corners, it doesn't need an airlock so one less thing to clean ;) As...

Have been brewing some k&k lagers using 34/70 yeast, the recipe says to add another yeast packet at bottling time - I guess to help with carbonation. Is this really necessary? In previous brews I've fermented for 2weeks, increased temp for diacetyl rest then slowly dropped the temp to 2C for a...

Pleased to announce that there have been no KABOOMS only pleasantly carbonated beverages.

Thanks for the advice, all bottles now re-primed, inverted and in the laundry at 18C, see how they are in a week or so. Might stick to dextrose in the future

Have just realized I have used wheat extract instead of LDME to bulk prime my last two batches when bottling. I used 145g for each 23l batch which had worked out well when using LDME for most of this year but now after 6weeks the beer has only minimal carbonation. I was planning on removing all...