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Mate and I was so close to Norton St too. Not to worry, some other time. Camperdown Cellars has a reasonable selection. Not huge, but interesting. As for cider, Dan Murphy's has a huge selection which was surprising. Probably about fifteen to choose from. A few pear ciders too. The guy at...

Not that there's anything wrong with that, if it gets more people started into AG brewing. My concern with grinding a full batch grain bill to powder is all the mud at the end that's going to get through the bag. Im already having huge trub issues with standard cracking.

Tried a Samuel Adams Black Lager recently, and while I thought it was quite wonderful, I was three sheets to the wind already, so thought I should give it a go once again, as the first beer of a session, to get a better feel for the beer. Sadly, I cant find any ! Have tried Dan Murphys in...

What is the attraction towards making beer in this style? Is it so you can get two different half-batches out of one brewday, one strong and one standard ABV, which you can hop each one as you please? Based on Swinging Beef's outcome, would he have gotten roughly 30 litres of 1060 wort out of...

<br /><br /><br /> LOL that was a weird comment

I transfer my bag from the urn to a 19L pot, place it on the ground and tie it to a heavy duty shovel handle that's mounted vertically between my balcony and my garden bench. Then I twirl, twirl, twirl until all the juice is out. A warning to others. I twirled too much last brew, and SNAP -...

So is the name Fosters on beer overseas not even owned by Fosters Group Limited? http://fosterswineestates.com/news/fosters...d-vietnam-.aspx

How straightforward do you want to take the science & art of brewing? That site is probably OK for the cavemen out there.

I dont get it either. If I ask a brewing question, I dont just want 'an answer', but a few points of view, and extensions into related considerations on matters that may also effect the outcome of what I am asking. www.ausiehomebrewer.com.au is already an almighty helpful resource, the best I...

Youre right there about old conventional wisdom. I notice around the traps a bit of trepidation accepting BIAB. Not that it has stopped me from pulverising some of my grain bill. Although I did find that wheat grain was a bugger, some of it refused to crack in the food processer. Next time it...

Traditional wort production uses way less water/grain ratios for the mash than single vessel BIAB, and then makes up for it in the sparging process.

I was told that there is a high risk of astringent tastes due to a greater surface area of husk. Which surprised me, considering Nick's thread, and no reports of tannin flavours etc. Anyone wish to comment on why they think this is a bad thing for BIAB, to pulverise the entire grain weight to...

I am using a 40 litre urn, that gets filled with 32 litres of water, then the bag goes in which raises the tide to almost the rim. After the bag is removed, it takes a few litres of water with it. Then the boil evaporates a few more litres, and finally the trub at the bottom that gets left...

Pour off from the drum into a tube Take reading from tube Throw beer/wort out, or drink it Spray some sanitister into the closed tap when finished Really, you only need to do this once before you pitch, then a second time at around 10 days, then a third time the day after that to ensure the FG...

Post #2 is correct, it's third party importing, and has always been happening with stuff like Becks, Stella etc. I have often seen it overlaid with non-english side labelling too, maybe Greek or Turkish from memory.

ah it was cascade, and fresh off the vine into the freezer until i used them last week, so not dried at all. They were added to the fermenter post-krausen. A wet dry hopping I suppose you would say.

Exactly the same ? I thought the cones would have a much higher water content, therefore a greater weight needs to be used in order to get the same out of them as pellets per weight. If this is not the case, I have just waaaaaay overloaded an American Pale with fresh aroma hopping. Probably...

the Boags draught in Launceston pubs is a really nice refreshing beer, and i dont normally go for characterless megabrews but this was an enjoyable exception.

sure, finings wont drop all of the yeast out of suspension. that's why you can still bottle carb after gelatine.

Good point, although I wonder what sequence you are using - 1,2,4,8,16,32 etc. I have been doing my head in for the last 20 minutes trying to prove to myself why that doesnt feel like the right way to look at it. Maybe its a brewer's practical reference when speaking of generations, not a...