Recent content by slowlearner

Hey ADE. I'm down in tamworth where it's jusy as hot as up there, except it's dry as a nun's nasty. I had the same problem as you on my first brew, pitched the yeast @ 26deg, thought I'd killed it, but was not toooo bad once I got to the end of the batch after 3 months. Over the course of my...

now that I think of it, the first yeast had been in the frig a couple months. maybe dud..... brewing way of thinking starting to come back to me......

:icon_offtopic: um,at the risk of someone finding out where I live and coming around to have a stern word, settle down guys. BUTTERS, I was not taking the piss, thats just me. Like RICHY says, you can't have too much humour in the world. Christ sake, my quadraplegic father died couple weeks ago...

Yeah not bad BUTTERS. I'm also having trouble with where to put the oil in the car engine. All i have is a cap that says 7IO, not oil :blink: ....no I'm not a woman..... :icon_chickcheers: put bathc on last night about midnight, OG was 1038. No condensation, no scum anywhere, no other obvious...

Howzit all.... Did my first Wheat brew, a BREWCRAFT BAVARIAN WHEAT with the BC aust wheat conversion kit, BREWCELLAR Wheat yeast(pitched @ approx 17deg), 25gr of ground coriander, 2tbl of orange zest and hersbrucker hops. It's sitting in the can cooler bag with 3x2.4ltr bottles of frozen briny...

Back again...... just come home from up toowoomba, picked up the last 3 coffee porters on the shelf at the bottlo, where a very helpful fellow recomends using liquid coffee essence in the brew, not beans. Reckons some guys up that way have tried it with better results than with beans, due to the...

EVENING ALL....again. sorry i haven't responded so far, (friggin dept of war&finance), thanx for all the help so far, I need all the help i can get.... I was thinkin the COOPERS real ale as a fairly neutral base to start from, will most likely go the choc malt extract instead of the pale malt...

EVEING ALL. What with all the warm weather and all, I'm thinking an ale next... :icon_cheers: I have fond memories of a CASCADE choc mahog porter that I re-visit every so often and would like to brew it again but with more choc flavour. I have read elsewhere on this site that I should be using...

hey all came back from toowoomba on the w/end, where we had a few at the SPOTTED COW who were doing oktoberfest. they had 10 odd euro's on tap plus god knows how many in the bottle. oh for a few more hours to experience them all...... anyway, we finished of the arvo with a MEANTIME COFFEE. it...

It's time to have a crack.....planning a toucan using a COOPERS lager and a COOPERS stout to make a black'n'tan. As a self confessed newbie, I'm looking for the wisdom of those who have gone before me. Other threads elsewhere suggest pitching one yeast, others suggest two. Some say use a bit of...

my first and only stout (so far) was the BREWCRAFT IRISH STOUT, used a B/CRAFT #74 stout convertor, a super alpha and a fuggles hops 'tea-bag', 12ml of liquorice extract and s-04 yeast, topped off to 18ltrs. primed with half tea-spoon of sugar as mentioned by rodders, used a cooking set of...

I threw a bottle in the fridge this arvo, had first schooner chilled, with no smoke taste at all. 2nd schooner left it in the glass for half hour or so to lose some of the chill, still no smoke taste. this from a brew that was bottled 6/4/08 Just tastes malty.......still good by my standards......

did one of these as my third brewing experience, used MORGANS dark crystal malt. I added a cup and a half of dex after reading the MORGANS brochure and learning elsewhere i had to add dex to get alc% up. did this next day i think, airlock hadn't kicked off yet...........dumb%$&* newbies wort...

beer in guts........nice drop now it's had time to come good. wuz WAY smoky the first few times I tried it, like sucking on a burnt match dipped in smoky bbq sauce. Had a XXXX drinker spit it out, the philestine. That may have been cos it wasn't ready yet and I was using him as a guinea pig, but...

:icon_offtopic: just 'cos I lives here doesn't means I comes from here. Ah to north of the border once more....... you're right about the kooty / dungowan bringing a tear to the eye, especially what they do to their kin-folk out that way on those long cold nights......can ya hear the banjoes...