Recent content by Piste

Mine was like that but after about three/four weeks the sweetness vanished, it's still improving and waiting for some warmer weather (aren't we all :( )

Typical media, really on the ball, next thing you know is that there will be a micro brewery starting up somewhere in Australia :rolleyes:

I have a lager on the go at the moment and it took a couple of days before any airlock activity, when it did start it was slow and stopped after two days, I gave the fermenter a bit of a violent shaking and within 12 hours it was off again and has been going for just over a week now. I am at the...

Bottled my batch of cervesa on Saturday, went clear and settled very quickly, opened one today just to see what it was doing, not much of a hiss, but it has been cool and secondary will probably take a while. It was surprisingly good compared to the first one I made and I can only attribute this...

I used to live in Kallista and there wasn't much there, Olinda seems to be more of a tourist type area with all the traffic on the Tourist Road, although you may get some opposition from the swill shop (pub). I think anywhere on the Mt Dandenong tourist road would probably work for you, but have...

Started life as a rad tech RAAF then got out and became a psychologist, worked for the state for too many years, got a Phd in forensics, pulled the pin and now play with horses, homebrew and wood. Work 3 nights a week in a pub just to help keep me sane.

I've got 8 Grolsch 1.5l swingtops, never had a problem except that the speed filler (or whatever it's called) doesn't quite reach the bottom :angry: In my shed somewhere I have about 2 dozen 500ml swingtops, must pull them out sometime. I use them for historical interest, thats what I call it...

You poor bugger, I'm down to nil with two waiting to be bottled. One of them is the Cervesa again, I did it this time with SafLager and 250g DLME I had laying around and the CBE2. Thought about adding lemon juice to secondary, how much would you put in and what would the effect be?? Or is it...

Used to have a full beard, some described it as looking like a wombat hanging off my chin. Had to attend a trauma debriefing in the bush during the summer months and I got about half a dozen Christmas Beetles in it, took about four hours to get the buggers out. Kept it for a bit longer until I...

Capping a stubbie I'm drinking while bottling and drinking a stubbie that I haven't capped, never drink much though............................

In addition to what has been mentioned I also use C CLeaner which gets rid of any nasties when I turn off the computer. It's a free download, my kind of price :super: I recall reading somewhere that the C in fact is Crap Cleaner indicating as to what it gets rid of on the system. I have noticed...

In the case of some blonks I used to work with, about 3 days :unsure: Didn't taste that good, don't know why :rolleyes:

It could have been Fosters though.............................. I remember staying in a Motel and a busload of German tourists rolled up into the bar extolling the virtues of Fosters, Carlton Draught and Tooheys light on tap, whilst understanding Germany's ire, I suppose being a German does not...

I did something similar in the Public Service when I was having a whone about smokers. I put in for a weeks extra leave as I did not take three 15 minute cigarette breaks 5 days a week for 45 weeks of the year which comes up at just over 7 days, told this was silly but while they were having a...