Recent content by rossp

All sold to GrumpyPaul (who wasn't even that grumpy!). Thanks Paul and happy brewing.

Cheers - have sent you a response. Prefer not to split - but the urn is approx 30L if memory serves. Can measure it up tonight to confirm. With the urn as HLT and Esky as MT I regularly did 23L batches to fill a keg plus a couple longnecks. It's a 30 (or 33? 36L?) Esky brand. Certainly not...

I'm selling my home brewing gear. This made many tasty batches of beer but unfortunately I just don't have the time to brew any more. His is a perfect three-vessel system including a pump (no gravity feed needed!) for the amateur brewer. All is sold as-is. It needs a clean but you should be...

4x 20L kegs - Melbourne Full disclosure: I'm the seller. Currently at $150 - they've got what I *think* are S-type connections... you'll need to get your own coupler. AHB buyers get a free beer if I've got any carbonated when you turn up. :)

I'm stoked that I got 4th place in the IPA category with my first ever competition entry (and a last minute plan to enter after I had more than I could keg!). It turns out that using way too much Nelson Sauvin never offended anybody :)

Picked up the ingredients for this recipe this morning and my yeast starter is underway. Will brew first thing tomorrow, looking forward to it. With the ingredients I'm struggling to see how it could turn out as a bad beer! It'll also be my biggest mash ever at 7.5kg; if I pull it off easily...

LOL at some of the responses. Pride of Ringwood seems to be quite the polariser! :) My aim here is to make an easy drinking unoffensive beer to give my palette a break from some of the overly hoppy, overly bitty, or overly malty beers that we tend to brew. I'm not looking to clone anything...

You'll note I didn't say it's used for swill, I said it's used by macro (=large) breweries which I would have thought included Coopers. My main point was just that many people see POR as "the hops used in VB", even though as has been pointed out in this thread there is much more to it than that.

My thoughts behind doing it single malt was just to keep things simple. I don't mind Marris Otter but can't say I want to pay the price premium unless it's needed. After thinking about this a bit I'll probably leave the hop additions as-is (using flowers if available) and go with perhaps an...

Right now I heat my HLT inside (elec urn) and mash inside; I then carry my full kettle outside and hoist it up onto a burner before gravity chilling into my fermenter. This means that the house smells like malt (suits me, but not the mrs so much), it always rains when I'm trying to chill my...

Hey All, Pride of Ringwood seems to get a bit of a bad reputation as it's the main hop used by most Aussie macro breweries. The little bits I've used have had a freakin wonderful smell but I've only ever used it for bittering. Having a quick chat about it with Dave @ Greensborough...

Noticed at the MCG for the footy last week they were selling bottles of this in the "Percy Beames" bar inside the MCC Members. Not that I saw anybody drinking it, but it was on display. Who the hell goes to the footy and downs a $100 beer? Sure, I can see some guys downing $100 of beer over a...

Using a laser printer rather than inkjet will help stop the colour from running if it gets damp. On my new keg fridge I just used a bit of milk on the back of the paper to stick it to the fridge door, and it peels off easily. I've heard of others doing similar things for bottle labels; I'm not...

Great ideas, thanks for that guys. Will over-chill & ice for transport... unpack the fridge first to give it a while to settle then by the time the move is finished we can have a few nice cold brews. I wish my mates would put good beer on when I helped them move! :P

Woohoo! Thanks mate. Now my only problem is getting them cold again ASAP on move-day!