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Welcome to AHB. Enjoy the journey and your brewing.

I would agree that in a pale Belgian normal white sugar will work well. It won’t be exactly the same but close. Yeast is very good at...

Brewman sells it. Link here. http://www.brewman.com.au/web/showproductlist.asp?catid=2&subcatid=3&subsubcatid=2

It's been done, can work reasonably well within certain constraints. If you take the alcohol over about 8% and certainly over 10% you...

Welcome, enjoy the forum.

Welcome to AHB. Enjoy the forum.

See comment in the first post: He's retiring (after 34 years of serving the HB community) and the building's lease finishes up as well.

Welcome to AHB. I'm in Brisbane, so know well the humidity and temps this summer. I control the temperature of my fermenting beer by...

hello i am new member

1) Everything over the last few weeks. Alkaline Salts (Detergent) to clean. Acidified bleach, (not normally used), Steller San...

Ding, ding, ding, ding. This is a light bulb moment. I now believe that the problem I had reported here, nearly 10 months ago, was the...

I admire your persistence. I'd have turfed these fermenters long before now !

No need to do what you do. I mostly don't use the lid on mine, just cover the top with a couple of layers of clingwrap, and seal it with...

To answer your questions to the best of my knowledge, Yes and Yes.

Haven't used one for years Lots of brewer use a layer or two of clingwrap secured with the rubber band from inside the lid. Or, I simply...