Recent content by Ralphi

@ekul, if the capper works I'd be interested on seeing if we can sort something out. where are you based?

Thanks heaps for the advice and sadly I'm down in melbourne so I can't take up your generous offer Ivan.

Hey guys, Just looking for some advice on buying a bench capper. I am pretty new to home brewing but understand that a bottle capper is pretty essential. My local K-mart has on offer a bench capper for $35 (I think it's a brigalow one), My question is should I go for this or should I look...

yeah, I'd be very greatful. PM me to arrange something?

Have these been given away as yet?

Can you recap them as screw tops?

By "cut yr lip on a bottle" are you saying that if you crown seal a screw top bottle it'll smash the neck a bit or something?

Thanks for all the advice. It will be fine BUT stubbies are a PITA to clean, sanitise and fill. Twice the work of tallies. One big tip is clean and sanitise everything and don't short cut this ever. Remember that everything likes beer. I'll look into getting a source of "tallies" but I'm...

Wow thanks so much for your time in answering my questions. I realise that the plastic bottles come with the kit but i'm looking for what i'll do after that and I don't really want to have to be buying bottles all the time. Also I don't really fancy drinking out of plastic. If someone could...

Gday all, I'm Ralphi, first year uni student, haven't started hombrewing yet but i'm quite keen. I'm living down in melbourne and love my beer but am also interested in brewing other stuff such as cider, ginger beer and lemonade. This site's been handy answering a few of my questions so far and...

Hi there, Just before i get started I hope this is posted in the right section, if not someone can move it. So the basic story is i'm a uni student and i'm looking at getting into the homebrewing scene in the hope of cheap(ish) beer, to make some ginger beer/lemonade and just out of interest...