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Hey Green Iguana Im pressently supping my first A.G. a pils. Yeah your right its a different ball game in the taste Dept (the hops are the same as extract but man that malt) Imabout to do my 4th this weekend with my (basic) brewery setup, I hop eyou have better self conrol than me and wait till...

Drag Hoses at Houghton Wines :o Cheers Jethro

Hey Poodz dont know about enhancer I guess its a combination of dried malt extract and corn sugar but I thought most kits are designed for 22 litres and what temperature did you take the reading (the warmer the wort the lower the reading most hydrometers are calibrated to 20 deg C) My guess is...

Hey Wax My impression of cold conditioning is just to mellow the beer out ceating a good balance between malt and hops as well as settling out. I always leave a few bottles out of the lagering fridge for early drinking and they never seem to be balanced. I'm looking at brewing a Munich dunkel on...

Thanks for that Tony, I was also wondering about what alloys may be in the tubing, I have the softer more maluable type. anyway as you said copper is a standard pipe for all water and should do no harm. copper causes hazes in wine but the acid is far stronger and I have never heard of problems...

Thanks Pintof the goodstuff Ill do that Cheers Jethro :D :D

Thanks for all the info lads Well I Gave it a pretty decent boil Wedge (90 minute rolling) and evaperated about 12 Litres so I dont think that is a problem Racked into a secondary for three weeks total in the fermenter and lagered at 0 deg for 2 weeks. This is a beer that was cloudy from the...

Well I guess my biggest stuffup is not quite inthe brewing Dept but its alcohol related. I work in a Winery and on a busy nightshift in vintage I kinda opened the wrong valve on a earth filter and ran of to carry out another job and smuggled 13000 litres of water in 12000 litres of Margarete...

Thanks Tony for that info, but Im not sure what the problem is still 1.) I used an emersion chiller and cooled down to 20 deg in under 15 min 2.) I mashed for 90 min between 65 and 67 deg ( possible thermometer is inaccurate) 3.) used saflager W 34-70 never had problems before with this yeast...

Ive done three all grains now @ Pils and a Baverian/Dunkel I mashed and batch sparged them all and Im reasonably happy with the results but the Pilsons have a fairly strong haze ( similar to a wheat bear) what could be causing this.I used malt craft pilson malt on thepils and hoefner munich on...

I have only batch sparged, (only three all grains) with mixed results My worst result was caused by trying to drain too fast (expecting 1.05 and getting 1.047) I hope to set up to fly sparge when I get the gear together. cheers...

Im borrowing one of those grain mills that look like a meat mincer and looking at purchasing a mill. In Perth the mincer type is all I have found for sale but I heard the roller mill is better. Why? does it give the beer an improved flavour or increase mash efficiency I have noteced the roller...

Ttry building a ring around the burner with loose bricks to channel the heat to your Kettle (saves gas and gets a pretty good boil fast) I gotta boil in my veranda since I have no shed Cheers Jethro

In the wine industry we use stainless heat exchangers quite effectively and I guess from experience I would choose stainless as it is easy to sanitise and will not react with acid or caustic. However maybe copper has greater heat conductivity but copper disolves in wine and causes a haze ( can...

I have always susspected that a racking after fermentation has finished can create oxygen pick up, Which I beleave is the only negative against bulk priming. I too use several sized bottles and desire different carbonation for different styles and bulk priming is to me the only way. Of course I...

Thanks Post Modern Just cut a 2'' hole in a 10 litre bucket and it fits a brita filter perfectly. That will save me a lot of time. By the way does a brita take a good minerals out as well as the nasties (chlorine). Anyways Ill recearch this water chemistry bit further and hopefully make more...

Thanks Chiller Ill do that, Ill just get my next brew on with tap water and hopefully I will find time to get it right for the next brew. (hard to find time with a 4 year old daughter wanting constant attention and the missus wanting stuff done around the house) I guess that for rainwater it...

Wow a lot of advice there well I'going to try the brita filter in the bucket trick and also try to get some kind of grip on the salt addition and P.H. thing. By the way are there any laymans terms for calsium chloride and calsium sulphate. And how much would you add? Do you add the salts to the...

My next door neighbour has a rain water tank and has suggested I try some for my brew While doing partials and extract I felt that as not all the H2O would be boiled that there may be a bug or two that may spoil the brew but I guess with a full mash as the full wort is boiled that should not be...

I just went for a pils I boiled in a 55 litre keg in the back pergola with a three burner boiled for 1 1/2 hours and boiled of 12 litres (bit more than I expected) then chilled with a immersion chiller (3/8 copper coil) 20 minutes. The time factor for me was batch sparging. and filtering water...