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Happy new year to all Raspberry saison, bit flat as was a leftover bottle from new years, found out my carb cap was split when filling some bottles from the keg new years eve.

Christmas Porter Bloody lovely, keg must be about to blow. Twas 15% brown malt and some other stuff, 1968 yeast and a little licorice root in the boil. Wishing all brewers a good one for Xmas cheers sean

I've had a couple of different roasters, for the last 5ish years have used the quest m3, bought direct from manufacturer in Taiwan. I do 300g roasts, and have replaced the dial thermometers with Ktype thermocouples, for BT and ET, run roastlogger on the laptop to plot roasts. Pretty simple...

You could always cube a no chill brew, time not a problem then, pitch at your leisure. Treatment of starters is very yeast dependent, for eg, my 2 goto english yeasts are 1469 and 1968. You can tell when they're finished on the stirplate because they will floc out whilst spinning and look like...

1272. You'll never look back edit : if you want more malty, try english yeasts. 1469 is excellant

Just finished Peaky Blinders series 1 and 2, wasn't too bad, missus wants me to get series 3, I suspect it has something to do with Tom Hardy being in it. Also caught a few old episodes of Callan which I've enjoyed , haven't seen it for 25 years ( actually on TV in 1970), but still has some...

First day of school holidays tomorrow, so have my brother and his kids coming up for 2 X double batches. Hopefully see some sun so can get rid of the kids in the pool for a while. Back In Black ( Black ipa ) MO 77% Rye 7% Wheat 6% Carafa II...

Despite the efforts of Myer ( Pell's minimum $20,000/day SC), the commissioner has Pell's measure, either Pell will never fly again anywhere, or he'll turn up to the RC at some stage.

bit of SS MIG wire is very handy for trussing up spit roasts

FTFY

As he hasn't quit parliament yet, Tony's best contribution so far, and his likely legacy, is eating the onion.

If you can remember back, Mal was Mr 14 %, only outdone by Mr 7% Brendan Nelson

We didn't ask about his biggest fuckups ... I heard the funny walk came from Peta giving him a good pegging each morning with her black mamba strap on

Actually Bronny has come in at a paltry 18th for spending for the first 6 months of this year. Barnaby hits the #1 spot LNP in top 4 Greens trying to become players too, with Bandt pulling into 5th

It's a bit odd that the Nats yesterday voted against a motion in the senate allowing farmers the right to veto CSG mining on their farms.

It's funny how farmers keep getting reeled in by the miners national party.

yep to UV damaging cubes, barely touched a 25L cube with a flanders red awaiting fermentation whilst trying to squeeze the ute into the garage because of a supposed hail storm coming , to be told by my 7yo daughter that my beer was leaking. Might have been better if it had at least hailed.

If you're running a herms/rims then not much need for an insulated mash tun. My MT is not insulated (SS) but both HLT and BK are.

one of the legends, both on and off the paddock, terrible news for his young kids in particular.