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This is a rally cool topic. Thanks Bribie for starting it and everyone else for keeping it going. When calculating yeast population growth from your defrosted starters, what sort of viability do you use? I use http://www.yeastcalculator.com/ when building starters. for example: I made up a...

Nothing personal but i dunno if i would be drinking beers from a brewery with a name like yours! Good job with your beer though, well done!

I do like rhubarb wine. Its on my to do list this year. I'll have to pick your brain later on in the season when my tiny 4-5 plants start giving me something to work with. Good move with the Chai too. Maybe a sparkling chai mead?

It will be fine pal. If you can get the yeast to the same temp as the wort temp before you pitch it it would be best. This avoids upsetting the yeast.

Can you please stop posting pictures of your awesome looking plants and making me jealous?

You will be fine. That can has been prehopped. Off topic: Nice forum name. I just started season 3 of arrested development. how good is Tobias' business cards with the job title!

I'm not going to enter into the boiling can reduce the apple flavours discussion, but... I made a cider with OzTops (i know - i'm lazy when it comes to cider) last year where i boiled up some of the juice and then steeped some jasmine/green/pear teabags. Jasmine tea is typically green tea with...

Did you use plastic or glass? plastic can hold more pressure than typical glass bottles. The one with the 1.021 FG is the concerning one. However if you are sure it was ready you should be fine. Best way to test if it is finished is to do the forced fermentation test. in simple terms, grab a...

Thats an interesting point. I've consindered it a bit recently. Have you got a reference for that? I'm not doubting you- i would just like to read a bit more about that. Also agree with IanH. go for it with dry hopping. both of your hops you have used will work well as a dry hop. depending on...

Also having a pulley system to help you drain the bag helps. saves you having to hang onto a hot bag for ages. if you increase your batch size - which you can easily do with your pot, you may want a double pulley.

+1 to Bribies suggestion of the paint stirrer. I've only recently started ag (7 brews) and got that tip from his thread. it does a great job of getting the grain up and about during the mash. Speaking of which, i usually like to give my mash a decent stir a few times throughout the process. it...

Hope that helps. have fun with your first!

I used a heat mat for a while. I too was worried about it melting the base of by fridge, but i just put some spare tiles on the base of the fridge to keep the heat source off the plastic. Ceramics are pretty heat tolerant. Pretty sure they use ceramic tiles on space craft heat shielding for...

I thought about doing this too, but i was worried that when the branches move in the wind, it may uproot the plants. This obviously may not be a problem if the branch is really close to the trunk, or you don't get much wind.

Probably not that helpful, but my local bunnings do sell them. 80c each. my lids only need replacing after i crack the ***** with them and break them on purpose because they are a pain to get off without removing half of your fingernails. I'm very precious.

if your batch size is around 23L it probably wont make too much of an impact as you are using less than 1 kilo. maybe use 70% or so. depending how mathematically minded you are, you can check your sg of the mash liquor (remember to adjust for temp). if its lower than what you predicted you can...

In your face it explodes....It's frustrating...It's frustrating.....

i'll add another opinion - although its similar to black Labb's. just go with the one spec grain. I've used carafa spec 1 before (lighter than the 2 and 3) and it gives a good browny black colour, its nice and malty and not really too sweet. to get the colour you are after maybe go with 150g of...

My labrador loves spent grain. if i try and put it on the garden, he sniffs it out and eats it all. I accidentally forgot to empty out my hopsock one weekend and left it on my brew sink. got mouldy and smelly. dont use it to deoderise your garage unless its smells absolutely disgusting. mouldy...

haven't measured, but i reckon something like 200g or so of flowers. I have been thinking of making a stout soonish so its ready for winter. Do you reckon i should aim for the lower side of the general range ie calculate as 14% rather than 16%? Realistically it probably wont make much...