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I hope you have ensured that your particular stubbies can be capped using a regular crown cap seal?

An option not mentioned that will cost about $100 is to purchase an insulated jacket which will accommodate your typical fermenter (my fermenter has the capacity to brew 23 litres). You quickly find yourself able to judge how many bottles of frozen water to place around the fermenter inside the...

"you just need tirage caps (29mm vs 22mm) and a tirage bell for your capper." I've been brewing for decades & never heard of these; mind explaining?

Hey guys, keep it simple. According to the advice I received from Fermentis there is no need to make starters. They should know.

Both my beer fridges, (controlled bY STC 100's), which not long ago, were able to cycle down to 1.5C. can no longer manage that. The very hot Queensland weather seems to have affected both which now can manage only 5 C. Could be the weather or just that age is catching up & I am demanding more.

Not many (IF ANY) Coopers cans make quality two-can beers. If they did our problems would be solved. The trick is discovering just how to use this low cost source.

My experience with UV sterilisation is not good. The UV elements seem to have an unduly short life & also their effectiveness is questionable. For example on our goldfish aquarium set-up we burn out one UV light every 6 months & it does not even impact on the algae. I am NOT an expert on this...

What you say is essentially correct. But I have not advocated brewing with only filtered tank water. I filter only the good & very clean Gold Coast town water supply which of course has been chlorinated. I can't speak with authority on what exactly a 0.5 micron filter can remove but I think...

What enzyme is Droopy Brew advocating? Maybe he can post his recipe for a crisp but tasty lager. Better still an Urquel clone, particularly if it is doable without months of low temp fermentation>

Here is my take based on over 40 years of home brewing: 1) A good clean reputable town supply of water is fine - 99% of the time; & you won't taste anything objectionable in your brew. Here in Qld on the Gold Coast the town supply is as good as it gets; no chlorine taste, ( to our family anyway)...

Can you please post the complete recipe, what kit are you basing this on?

Not sure what this recipe calls for "c" & "cc" - what does that mean

Many municipal water supplies are just fine for brewing. BUT it is always wise to use "best practice" when this does not introduce other problems. So get a good quality water filter & use it religeously, that's one potential problem solved easily. I use a first cartridge with 5 micron filter to...

My recommendation: Stop bothering with OG & FG it will just introduce uncertainty. Hide away your hydrometer. Just from general brewing & beer recipe knowledge you need over 3 Kg of fermentable material to get 3.5 ABV. Study other recipes (beer recipes are more reliable), then if you really want...

Total fermentables is 3 Kg max, according to your very abbreviated recipe above. That will likely produce an ABV around 3.5%. Add more dextrose & maybe brown or raw sugar. Fermentis when asked were not sure about recommending SO-4 or SO-5 & suggested champagne yeast to be safe. I recommend keg...

I like the look of this but absolutely OTT to boil for that length of time. Your objective is not extraction which is relatively easy, but sanitation for which a 15 min biol is quite sufficient. Note that freezing (best in cup cake molds), after pulping in a food processor, is super convenient &...

The ideal is to keg. It means you can easily control a constant sweetness, easily carbonate to your taste & probably carry over less yeast after the initial draw off. Messing around with PET bottles for home brewed GB is not for the faint hearted.

My GB which was strongly ginger flavoured left no taint in my plastic fermentor. Grating is messy, suggest use a food processor, then freeze in cupcake molds, make more than you expect to need, it keeps well frozen. I found a short 15 minute boil was still useful for both extraction & for...

Don't know Crabbie's GB. But surely you want much more than a hint of ginger?