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The Oatley Hotel has Fat Yak on at the moment and has done for some time. It used to have James Squires but they swapped it for the Yak. I realise it's nothing extraordinary but it's the best beer I've found within walking distance ... Edited to add: It's certainly on the trainline and only...

Not sure if I'm allowed to do this but: The First of the Last (Mark II) 1.7kg tin "ESB English Bitter" 500g dextrose 250g maltodextrin 250g dried light malt 11.5g Safale s-04 yeast 15g teabag Goldings finishing hops Mixed everything up in the fermenter and sat in down in the garage for...

The World Square Pub (in World Square of all places) down on George Street has a surprisingly good range of reasonably interesting beers. Here's a link and there's a "Beer & Bar" tab for an idea of what there is: http://www.worldsquarepub.com.au/

By gum, I leave this thread unattended for a day and you all turn into crazy vigilantes! ;) Thanks for all the words of support though. I must admit the main drag at the moment is cleaning the fermenter - something I wasn't looking forward to but I thought at least I'd have beer! Otherwise...

Nah, the tap had been closed for a while and all the doors were open (I'm certain I closed them .....)

Apologies for putting this here but I needed to vent somewhere to avoid causing some damage. This morning I headed down to put new iceblocks around the fermenter and keep it nice and cool, only to feel a breeze blowing through the garage. Turns out some idiots had broken into the garage last...

Mega - thanks again for all the advice. My other quick question is whether a hydrometer can be bought at places other than brew shops? I'll struggle to pick one up after work as I can't get to any shops before they close!

Noted for next time - thanks! ;) As I said I got a little bit carried away with the sanitising! Oh, and off-topic, what's your avatar? I used to enjoy it but I forgot what it's called and now I can't find it anymore (it's a comic isn't it?) Cheers

The thing is, I've waited for ages to find a quiet weekend to get all this going (it's not in the fermeter yet) and I would really like to start this today!

I would rather it today to be fair, and seeing as how five o'clock is approaching and it's the dreaded trackwork this weekend ...... Are other vessels OK provided the sample is then jettisoned? Cheers

Hello there, This is a slightly urgent call for advice. While sanitising stuff with boiling water, I got a bit carried away and poured some into the hydrometer 'test-tube'. You can guess what happened next - it went all funhouse mirror and warped so the hydrometer will no longer fit in (and...

In my defence, it's less that I've spent "a month agonizing over how to dry hop" and more that I have been fairly busy since Christmas! I found a spare weekend to go to the brewshop (only last week) and then it turned out to be about 40 degrees so I thought I may let things calm down a little...

I must admit the "dry hopping" phrase had confused me a little! ;) It sounds like putting them in later will be the way to go then as long as it's cool to do so. Thanks for the next brief lesson in brewing!

Apologies for bumping this thread. I'm after more advice I'm afraid! I finally managed to make it to a brewing shop and I picked up some hop teabags (I'm fairly sure they are - they're in a silver packet at the moment!) which call themselves "Finishing Hops". The instructions are to make a tea...

Good evening casha, Other than the finings and the kegging, it sounds like you are attempting to brew something rather like what I am going to do shortly. If it's not too much bother - could you give an update on how things went and most importantly, how the beer tastes! (I realise this could...