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Funnily enough, our brew session lengths haven't increased (if anything probably got shorter), but last brew day (at Easter) saw us pump out around 500L in around 12 hours (mash-in to cleaned up). Two brews in a day... that's just a regular brew day for me :rolleyes:

feel your pain... my first is due 10/10/12 and I have already been informed that it would be a huge leave pass to be granted... still working on it though :ph34r: At least I did get to the last event...

Get an auto-siphon, you won't need to use a heap of gas to push the beer, no real potential for mishap and no greater level of oxygenation than normal transfer processes. Also easier than using a standard racking cane as the siphon is created for you. Brendo

A good turn out at the local one in Croydon this morning - I even dragged the dogs out of bed to come along.

Bring enough beer to drink and share around with some of the other guy there - good to get feedback and try their's as well. Should be a good day!!

The issue I would see there is by having the filter in there and forcing the beer through it at serving, you would have a shiteload of neucleation points to break the CO2 out of solution, flattening the beer. Also, seems kinda counterproductive to me as the act of randalling the beer is...

With a beer this big, pitch size for proper attentuation is going to be pretty important. The alternative is to repitch the yeast from a smaller beer - I often do this with my bigger beers to ensure super healthy and plentiful yeastie beasties.

This is highly dependent on a number of factors - freshness of the yeast, are you using a stir plate, amongst others. I usually use Jamil's calc to check my starter sizes (have the iPhone app). yeast starter calc I would think if you are splitting off, you might be a bit shy with just 2l at...

yeah fair point... forgot about that... *back in my box*

+1 - an option to run a March pump would be good.

Alright... ya talked me into it Fents... I will make something work. 1. Fenton 2. Trippers 3. Luke C 4. Hairofthedog 5. Shane R 6. Darkfaerytales (Strong scotch ale) 7. Iamozziyob 8. WarmBeer 9. Wolfman 10.Lecterfan (if open to Ballaratians? I learnt heaps last year and would like to build on...

bump for those who may have missed it.

All sold... thanks!!

yeah that would be a hell of a leave pass. Drop down to a meeting at some time, all details are up on our website. next meeting is 25th of April (ANZAC Day).

Hi All, Melbourne Brewers will be holding an open day/brewing session on April 29th. This is a great opportunity to come down and check out the club in a relaxed atmosphere, while some of the club members are busy putting their brew rigs through their paces to brew dinner beers for our Annual...

Definitely interested, but may just be an attendee at this stage - not sure if I will have time to squeeze another beer through fermentation at this point. Will think about it and let you know asap. Do we have a date yet??

Last years collaborative brew with Fourstar, CM2 and Maple saw us brew and imperial vanilla stout. We used 1 fresh pod/20l of wort in the kettle, cube and fermenter. We simply split the pods and scraped the seeds. Came up with loads of vanilla flavour which really amped the choc profile. Yummo