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Thanks everyone. I'm such a worry wort! :) I just started some coopers yeast, in its slanty tube, and the wort I'd pressure cooked was in a glass jar and when I went to pour it into the slant, the damn bottom fell out of the jar! Now I have a big (bigger) mess to clean up in the kitchen!

OK. I sacrificed one for the purposes of illustration. doesn't look so bad now. :)

I've got a bunch of slants in the fridge and they all look like, well, hmm .. something that came out my nose. A white smear across the agar. But I made 3056 slants 2 weeks ago and they look more like something that would grow on cheese. White, but spotty. Is it OK? I threw away my 3068 slants...

If the APA wasn't flat after a year, it was sealed properly, I would think.

I just brewed a hefeweizen today. First brew in months and months. :o

We had a lovely day. The walk upto the kloster is very picturesque. even swmbo enjoyed it.

Just had to share! Its a bee-yoo-di-ful day here and we are off to Kloster andechs for some bier, wurst and kase! Hurrah!

So this year, tada!, weihenstephaner is available at the local supermarket. But only the default version. So it is still easier to get the range in Adelaide than Munich. Too funny. And then there's paris. Where do you buy Trois Monts in the latin quarter? Plenty of Hoegaarden and duval and...

In the duty free at heatrow yesterday i thought I might by myself some perfume. I don't usually do such girly things as squirt myself with smelly stuff but when I do I use some variant of Paris by Yves Saint Laurent (YSL). The lovely lady told me they have a new variety now called parisienne...

They are running "stillbrewing" http://stillbrewing.com.au/ They don't have the shop at grumpies anymore.

Oh yeah .. the vacuum sealed hops at BB are great! Although the monk divvies them out 1g at a time which is also nice. And the crush is better at BB.

So its in the kettle! I'm sooo pleased. I hit my mash T spot on. I got 79% efficiency with my new thermometer and there's a nice surfactancty foam on the top (or there was before I started heating it) so I can see that its all gonna be alright body-wise. :) I used a different method for the...

I like the monk but he just never had the grain I wanted, I always had to compromise. He is eccentric which doesn't bother me. But for variety and lovely service you've gotta go with Beerbelly. I get it delivered. I calculated the trip to pooraka and back costs me $7 in petrol alone so the APD...

Hi, I've just recultured my slant collection and 3 out of four (3787, 1768, and coopers) are looking good and snotty but the 3068 still looks pretty much like a slant with maybe a hint of smear on it. Do others find its a bit tardy to get snotty? BF

Wots the Imperial Landlord? I've just mashed in an IPA with the aim of storing until Jan. That was DrSmurto's suggestiong BTW. My mash tun is still leaking but armed with my brand new mother's day present (aka thermometer) I got my mash T spot on. So excited! :)

I'm a scum skimmer. And I strain all the hops and break out at the end with a sanitised strainer. Now I need to get this fat cat off me and go and clean the brewery ready for tomorrow.

I'm sure you're right guys .. or at least I was sure you were right until i woke up this morning intent on making slants and I have no auto-clavable tubes! And how the heck do I make slants anyway? something to do with agar i remember. I guess I can go to the chemist and get some pee pots, worse...

Poor old HWMBO is making his way through my bodiless dubbel I made with my broken thermometer (hence the lack of body). But the good news is, I used the proper yeast, WY-3787 (thanks ~Mike :) ) so it tastes like a dubbel! Definitely worth using the liquid yeast for belgians. The only dry yeast I...

The thing that's bugging me is I never figured out how to get the strike temp. right with my esky mash tun and then I discovered the thermometer was bung. So I guess all that means is I'm back to square one with the experimenting. Poor old HWMBO is making his way through 60 stubbies of headless...

Don't know about the rest of Germany,but in Bavaria is seems you can pretty much only get Bavarian beer! So as zwickel suggested, plan according to the region you'll be in.