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I tried to vent the beers by uncapping and recapping, some went very easily, but most started gushing pretty soon and either ended up mostly in the sink or all over the bench. I figure I must have overcarbed it somehow, as the ones that gushed the fastest also had the most yeast in them (Which...

Batch size was 20l, which at first lead me to think that 150g was suitable for the bulk prime (based on 8g/ litre which is the normal priming rate for most of my beers). It doesn't taste infected, which would lead me to suspect that it's not. Given that to have gushers in three days it'd have...

Howdy folks, I made up a partial mash bohemian pils which I was planning on handing out at a party, but after a few days it seems entirely too carbonated. I have an idea as to where I went wrong, but just wanted to get an opinion/check. I had the beer down between 5-10 degrees in the fridge for...

I found super pride to be deliciously resin-y and cleanly bitter. I made an australian styled ale with super pride the whole way through (Not exactly reccommended, I know, but I wanted to give it a go), and at first it was way too bitter and almost resin-y to the point of plastic tasting, but as...

I've made a couple of ciders in the past, some using kits and some using straight apple juice with a bit of lactose to sweeten it up a bit (yeast tends to ferment bone dry ><). One method I like to use is the apple juice concentrate as a primer, as you get a specified sugar content (Same as with...

From what I could garner of the law, it's illegal to distill spirits, but there's nothing against brewing up to 20% ('cause brewcraft sell those turbo yeasts which will do just that), and i'm almost certain that you would not get arrested for freeze distilling anything. Also, to get arrested...

I'm not doing full boils, but I'm not doing only extract either. My problem is that I don't have a 25-30l boiler to do an AG mash and cope with the extended boil times required for such a strong ale. The plan was to make up a partial mash for all the more complex flavours, which I could also use...

I've not seen where to get unhopped extract for $11, it's at least $15 at my brewshop (brewcraft) since last I checked. My angle is also that I've got a whole bunch of coopers cans already, so if I can get most of the hoppiness out of them I might be able to use them... but maybe that's just...

Evening gents, I was thinking earlier today that I might like to have a bit of experimentation with ageing beers, and so I figured I'd take inspiration from some people I read about in beer and brewer magazine (The millenium ale project), and make and ale my stepdad and myself could drink once...

So, just to be absolutely certain, we can bring in our entry forms and beer entries to the ale house at 1pm on sunday? I can't really drop them off on the saturday, so the sunday is more convinient... Sorry to ask the question, it's already been kinda answered, but I didn't really know what...

From my understanding, the best thing you can do to lose weight is to reduce your drinking all together, or switch up to something else less calorific/diffrent to beer. Drinks like Vodka and bourbon tend to have about 400kj per shot on average, so if you only want to hve 1-2 you're doing better...

Did a toucan brigalow apple cider a few months back with some lactose and pear juice, turned out to be a fairly nice drop after a while. Can't say I've tried the brigalow, but around my area coopers cans are only a few dollars more and from what I hear lightyears ahead in terms of quality. For...

Is it possible for me to enter several of my beers into the same catagory? I'm planning to make a second ESB this weekend, can I enter them both, or do I have to choose between the two? Looking foward to entering my first comp. :D Mr.Moonshine

I tried to make that beer late last year when I was getting really into what that brewing crafts book said, but it ended up being bloody terrible. I switched the brewcraft munich lager for a coopers euro lager to save cash monies, but pitched everything else as stated. It looked promising at...

+1 what swinging beef is saying, it's probably the closest you'll get using only K&B. IMO, the best taste in wheat beer comes from unmalted wheat and rolled oats, which you need to partial mash in order to properly convert and use in the beer. Also, the amount of coriander and orange peel you...

I was talking to a mate who takes science at uni in relation to carbonating something like an eisbock/barley wine, and he suggested adding dry ice to the volume of CO2 you would want in the bottle. It's a hassle to get the exact amount, and if you're bottling in glass it could be an issue, but...

Howdy all, Would it be feasible to make an aussie IPA with a mixture of POR, Cascade and super alpha, or am I just getting confused? I figured that seeing as super alpha is a NZ hop it's pretty close to something that could be deemed "australian", and by my (inexperienced) reckoning, it could...

Disagree with what's being said here, I cultured up the yeast from a hoegaarden to put in my witbier and it turned out great -although it took a while because one culture got infected, and I had to make up another-. Not sure if it's the exact same as the primary strain, just saying that if you...

Boingk, would you consider a culture from 2 bottles of westmalle trippel to be appropriate for this belgian strong ale? I picked up some bottles of the stuff cheap at the myer bottlo in the city, and was wondering if I could jack the yeast for something weird and belgian (Though I've heard the...

Just thought I'd follow up on how the beer turned out thanks to everyones advice :D Bottles were bulk primed with sugar and left for about 1.5 weeks to carbonate. Taste is quite tart, but with a fair amount of smoothness (Which I would say was probably the honey), and some nice spicy balanced...