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When you go to a bottle shop and the first thing you do when looking at an interesting beer is to check the bottom for yeast sludge.

Ok to gain some positive discussion from this thread, how can you pause a brew to commence another day? Is there any way, say something came up halfway through a brew. The only place seems to be after grinding and before mashing. I guess you can boil for 5 mins and cube after mashing if you have...

My belgium was just brewed yesterday, going to be very very young, but I think it should just scrape through in time. Otherwise I'll put in my Osama Bin Lager

Actually they will last for a long time, and they are specificlly designed for being turned on and off a lot, to heat up and maintain a temperature. They are very popular with reptile keepers. I had one I got second hand and it lasted 3 years before I sold it with my python still working fine.

Boooooo! mine got a 10 day head start and still haven't arrived. And the address is a freight forwarding centre where my partner works. Can't be long then.

tin foil wrapped around the bulb should be fine, don't use any blue tac. it is very conductive so heat should go straight through.

Cheers, I was thinking the same.

Trying this now, but differences are, dropped pale malt to 4.5kg, added 0.4kg of wheat and replaced cane sugar with .5kg candi sugar and fermenting with a yeast from a chimay blue. I have no saaz so I will have to see what I can replace it with, I have EKG, Fuggles, Cascade and Styrian Goldings...

Believe it or not I was beaten to it. And I was delayed a few minutes by SHMBO ringing as I was about to send the message.... They can sense brew gear being bought.

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All nonsence, I was the first person to come up with this joke. They must have all invented time machines and come to today to witness my sheer genius.

Shamefully stolen from http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1887326/dick...nny_commercial/

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She's a Male Ale

Alright I went and bought 2 10 L jerry cans that fit perfectly into the freezer. The have the added bonus over the kegs of a bung that when on the side it sits on top. I can remove it to syphon out from with out disturbing the trub. I put the current lager into them, and moved them to the...

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/20-and-15-litre-wat...=item3f0932645a 2x 20L jerry cans 1 X 15 L Jerry can Pick up sth est melb, currently $1.25

Does it have a rotisery as well? If you are really crafty you could set up an automatic mash stirer. Just turn it off 30 mins before lautering to let the grain settle into a bed.

Unfortunately I have a lager in it at the moment so I can't really test it without stuffing up my lagering. Although it is sitting at -20C with the fridge at 6C but its been running for a little while straight to drop to this temp because the lager was a bit warmer before, it will probably warm...

Do constant temps matter so much for lagering? I will complete the primary ferment of a lager in the fridge part under strict ferment temps, but if during lagering the temp varies between 1C and say 7C will this make much difference to the taste? I know that at 7C the beer will not be as smooth...