Recent content by slash22000

Mill pays for itself soon enough with the $$$ saving on bulk grain. How long does it last, good question, long enough you will use it all before it goes bad if you brew with any sort of regularity. Keep it dark/dry and it'll last 12 - 18 months easy. Just don't do what I did and leave a few KG...

Specialty grains or base malt? Base malt I buy in 25 KG sacks and truck them up 3-4 at a time, costs about $80 for cartage. Store in 25L air tight plastic drums from Bunnings, holds about 15KG grain per drum. Specialty malt I buy 5KG total of whatever grains I want to fill a 5KG Auspost...

Brewed an IPA with M07. OG 1.074 (mashed at 65ºC), added 2 packs dry, FG 1.010 five days later. I thought my hydrometer was acting up, checked it and calibrated, nope all good FG was on the money, ~86% attenuation. :huh: Not carbonated yet so I can't comment on taste, but there's enough hops in...

Never done a side by side, but I seriously doubt they make their own extract. It's almost certainly repackaged from another vendor. Coopers is usually the way to go with extracts for the pre-packaged stuff. They're a big brewery, they know what they're doing. I dunno if it's kosher to post...

G'day mate. Darwin here. You're going to need temperature control, period, if you want to make good beer. I used to make Coopers kits at room temperature, it worked, they were alright, but it's just too easy for everything to go pear shaped. I got a $100 secondhand chest freezer off Gumtree and...

It's a shocking store. They sell nothing but those kits you see above (maybe some Coopers cans etc too), with a small mini fridge filled with random tiny bags of hops/yeasts for double the price you can buy them elsewhere. I went in there looking for crystal malt once and was told "Nobody uses...

21 litres + all your ingredients should come out to around 1.096 if I'm not mistaken. WLP028 has an attenuation of 70-75%, or 1.029 - 1.024 FG. Are you sure you're reading the hydrometer properly?

I hope you have a 20A wall socket or else you're going to have a very pissed off wife in short order.

Accused of promoting binge drinking ... 3.8% ABV ... -_-

PSA: this was posted today: http://www.reddit.com/r/Homebrewing/comments/1zhkvn/a_quick_warning_about_etching_yor_stainless_kettle/ saw with great interest the posts here about etching your stainless kettles. Not wanting to blow $100 that I spent on my kettle, I asked my brother-in-law, who...

Pro tip: Google is your friend for all conversions. https://www.google.com.au/#q=1.35+quart+per+pound+in+litres+per+7.21+kg = 20.3074986 litres per (7.21 kg)

This one is a long shot but I'm hoping I'm not the only person in Australia who has suffered the yankee curse. Moved into a new unit, my hose adapters don't fit any of the new taps. After a few hours of Googling it turns out the wanker landlord has installed American faucets with "15/16 inch"...

Never could find a decent substitute for American 2-row. Everything we get in Australia is at least twice as dark as US 2-row, except for Pilsner malt, which is different again.

If you're using a hop bag (which you probably should be) then you will lose less wort, about half as much (from what I've read) since you can squeeze the hops/let them drain. Also, don't forget dry hops in the fermenter. They will absorb just as much wort.

Yep I go by the same calculation Pratty.