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Not having any suitable cloth for a bag, nor fishing line that wasn't coated in sea salt, I opted to experiment with hop tea ... used about 30gms in boiling water, then strained into another jug and ran more boiling water through what was now hop pellets turned to hop mud/paste - to about 300ml...

The Beer Factory @ Seven Hills - http://www.thebeerfactory.com.au/whoweare.html Never used them, but a mate has and was very satisfied.

Sadly I am working late tomorrow ... otherwise I would definately consider coming... maybe next time.

I recently made an ale which was meant to have a nice Amarillo hop aroma and flavour - but somehow turned out with very little of either (I have my suspicions on what I did wrong ... but I don't want to discus that now). What I am considering is to start with some hop tea - boiled then cooled...

There is a simple solution to that.... just buy two! (I mean what's another 6 grand eh?) ;)

Wanted to clear out some space in the "brewing pantry" (i.e.: small cupboard above my desk), so I decided to throw it all together & see what it turns out like. Was gonna copy/paste the recipe here out of the spreadsheet, but Excel locked up - so I screen shotted it instead: Dissolved the...

And forbid it that anyone should drink that horrible yeasty homebrew produced by any other method!

ok, I should have searched first :P http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...showtopic=53861 ... is one current discussion

For those of you who don't use a fermenter with a tap, what is your method of siphoning? Do you just use a clear poly tube, dipped in just below surface level and suck at the other end & stick your thumb over the end till you point it in to the bottom of your keg or priming vessel? Or are there...

You are talking about me there (indirectly of course... unless you have a spy camera in my house... :unsure: ). I follow recipes, but have not really honed in on the details of AA% levels (and some other things) ... but it is discussions like this that get people like me thinking more about the...

Just kegged this one 10 mins ago ... OG was 1050 & FG 1010 - so that's not too shabby! :P Whilst the aroma didn't have anywhere near the level of amarillo I was hoping for (aroma in the glass is almost neutral - after-taste/aroma is very mild) - it is nice and clean on the pallete, and has a...

This afternoon I was happily potting some seedlings on the front patio with my 7 year old daughter who just loves helping daddy out in the garden when the familiar tune of a "Mr Whippy" van was heard coming down the street ... and what child can't resist running out to look ... even if it is...

Thanks guys, I hadn't considered the mouse/rat issue, but I am sure that would be an issue around my place - have seen several varieties of the rodent nature around here - ranging from the "quiet as a mouse" tiny brown mouse which darts from cover to cover on the kitchen floor at speeds that...

I have been wondering what effects in terms of acidity the discarded grain & the trub from the bottom of the fermenter is having on my garden. If it increases acidity levels, then I will throw it towards my citrus & azaleas and avoid chucking it in the rest of the garden. I once chucked a bunch...

Coopers website has a three-can recipe - http://www.coopers.com.au/the-brewers-guil...-imperial-stout Sub the Lager with the Real Ale maybe ... if you are game!

Yeah rotten - I know what you are talking about there (recipe specifies dry hop in secondary) ... I had alredy done the brew last night... but as he said, the award winning one didn't use dry hopping, just in at flameout & chilled - still providing a nice level of aroma ... as that is what I did...

I do partials, and I have started skimming (blame Tony .. he got me onto it :P ) As I use only a 15L stock pot, I have just started finding out that the two biggest advantages of skimming for me are: 1) Preventing boilovers 2) I have _much_ less trub in the bottom of my pot, so I am not...

Ok, that's good then because what I did with the 0 min was add at flameout & then chilled using my immersion chiller. Fermenters are now happily "blooping" away :) If I feel it needs more aroma after kegging, I'll think about throwing 15gms (pellets in a "sock") into the keg

Oh, I just had a thought (just after sealing the fermenter) .. .are the 0 min hops supposed to go in the fermenter? PS: my OG was close to recipe @ 1050

I have done two Mangrove Jack Munich Lagers recently - some in the keg right now & yeah, it is still cloudy ... the other one I did never actually fully cleared up, but that might have something to do with my mash process (as I am doing partials) .. or maybe something else ... I have considered...