Recent content by Shep14

Wobbly, I emailed my enquiry to [email protected]

For those that are interested I have received the latest water quality measurements for South Peth/Kewdale from Water Corp. The report includes measurements more applicable to brewing than that found in the report on their website. This is my first crack at making adjustments for water...

I used US-05, was a single infusion mash and I stirred the mash fairly constantly during mashout. Could it just be one of those things that not every brew is the same and some are better than others? Might just have to have another crack at it and if I have the same problems I will know its...

My strike temp was 69 and i hit just over 67 at mash in, temp was 66 at the end of 60mins. I bottled, but that was 2 and a half months ago now.

Im currently drinking my 2nd crack at BIAB, a Dr Smurtos Golden Ale and its drinkable but im not completely happy with it. I think its a little bit light bodied and a little astringent, would be great if i could get some direction as to what might have caused this. I mashed at 67deg and ended...

Just read this article, Goodwood Cellars are doing growler fills. Has anyone been to check this out yet? http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-a...3-1226472917801

Adding salt will cause the ice to melt quickly initially, and will lower the temperature of the surrounding water. Handy if you want to cool something quicker. However, heat will transfer more readily into the solution now and will not last as long as if the salt wasnt added.

I ended up tracking down the B-Saaz at a different homebrew shop, so stuck to the original recipe. Has been in the fermenter now for 4 days, I poured a little bit from the fermenter last night to have a sniff and I was pleasantly surprised with the nice hop aroma. I added the 0min hops as cube...

Going to do this as my first AG brew tomorrow, heaps pumped! Went to the homebrew shop this morning and got everything I need except the bloke in the shop had not even heard of B-Saaz. So flying blind and not knowing much about what would be a good substitute I bought some chinook (AAU 11.1%)...

Forgot to put this link into previous post. http://www.honey.com/images/downloads/home_brew.pdf Thanks kymba has left me with this idea, as I dont have the ability to keg yet. Can I bottle at a higher gravity say 1015, then fermentation will continue in the bottle to a more desirable gravity...

As this is my first post on AHB I have to say this is a wicked forum, I have been lurking around here for a while now and I am amazed at the amount of knowledge that can be found here. After some successful extract brews im excited to move into all grain, having picked up my 40L crown urn...