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    [WA] free fridge, Greenwood area

    My MIL old house has and old fridge, free to pick up. Apparently works, just no longer in use because of age/dirt, dunno I haven't seen it for 6 years. But I should be good as it's the same model as one of my fridges (Hoover contour 370L cyclic defrost). It's in the garage and apparently...
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    Chilli! All Things Chillies.

    Yeah, when fruiting they need potassium, mg, mn and cal. Just don't over water them or use heavy nitrogen ferts. Best if using organic low nitrogen ferts (like manure pellets etc) in the summer. Over watering and too much nitrogen often causes fruit to rot and drop. Let them dry out a bit -...
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    Cooper's tins of goop special Big W

    Only mentioned it because I think the plan is to shift it all from WW/BW to dans in the end. My local BW is a graveyard, just has some 1-2 Y/o dented tins, and they're getting rid of a lot of lines as they run out of stock. WW stopped selling coopers dark ale, real ale and stout a year or two...
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    Cooper's tins of goop special Big W

    Dan murphys dropped their regular prices a few weeks ago too. OS was 12.50, but now 11 int series was 14.50 but now 12.50 550g ldme was 6.29, now 5.50, dex was 3.39, now $3 It's been at those reduced prices for at least 2 weeks.
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    Lallemand/ Danstar London ESB Dry yeast

    I just finished a kit brew with this yeast, it's finished in 5 days @ 1010 FG I used some more dextrose due to it's reputation, I wish I didn't now. Tastes a bit dry due to dex and a bit home-brewy due to high inital temp, but we'll see how it ends up... Kit, 700g LDME, 500g dex. (usually use...
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    Help with Saison recipe

    You don't need to boil much at all, except for any flavour hops additions, just need hot water to dissolve ingredients . Same for make up water, better if treated for chloromines/chlorine though with a campden tab/vit c tab. Never seen cascade in a saison recipe, but do whatever you like. 1...
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    First Brew....oops!

    Not for most, see decr gets along fine gets along fine without running one at all. For me though it may, since 35-43C temps here Nov-April and the only place I could put one is in direct sunlight or a tin shed. A running fridge would cost to run, a non running fridge worse than an...
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    First Brew....oops!

    Are you saying that it's a non working fridge? Sounds OK it fits two fermenters. Makes up for all the downsides of using a dead fridge. If it didn't then non working fridges are not so great. Better than a cardboard box of course, but I wouldn't go out of my way to get one - maybe if...
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    First Brew....oops!

    Does the fermenter with tap fit in the box it came with? Early this year I was using water baths/wet towel + fan to keep my fermenter cool (around 24C), then switched to a crate, smaller fermenter and a couple of frozen bottles wrapped up in a sleeping bag (kept at 18C). A couple of weeks ago I...
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    Saison season is here. What's your best recipe?

    Didn't get too high in temp, started at 21C, raised to only 24C due to cool weather. (Decided to brew one because of the heatwave that hit perth 2-3 weeks ago, but it was kept cool with the other fementers doing IPA and APA for the first few days). But soon after doing the brew the ambient in...
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    Lallemand/ Danstar London ESB Dry yeast

    Thanks, I'll make sure I have something else to pitch if that happens. Still, the feedback is disappointing. I was hoping to replace s04 which can have the same problem (but at least that is a high floc and att rate...) After doing most of my brewing over winter, I've found most yeasts don't...
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    Saison season is here. What's your best recipe?

    How long did you age it? Just bottled a kit one with 500g LDME, 400g wheat malt, 300g sugar, 100g cara munich, 20g EKG, belle saison yeast. Fermented down to 1004. It's as sour, tart, dry, winey as hell. E: Obviously I expected some of these qualities, but not to the level I got. Either I...
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    Fermenting Fridge To Sit On My Washing Machine

    Me too. That's why I brew in winter/autumn and bottle outside. Fermenters can sit next to my PC/CRT in my little man cave/spare room in winter/autumn. It's a hassle to even use the kitchen for a 30min kit brew. As I have a free standing dishwasher in the laundry too I often put fermenters on top...
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    Lallemand/ Danstar London ESB Dry yeast

    Cheers. I might try the reverse thing. I might give it a go starting a higher temp like 23C or something so the yeast multiplies more and gets some esters or something, then drop to 20-21C
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    First brew tinglers

    Home brewing taught me patience, I don't even check SG for a week or more. Of course temp control is more variable for some of us, or thermometers less accurate and so on, and no crash chill option. So we just sit and wait for 2 weeks to finish and clear ;) E: especially for us05 as I don't like...
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