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Hi All, I just thought I should update this thread with the result so far. I picked many kilos of a range of plums over the last week of December. Due to a lack of time more than anything else I took peels advice and froze them. Over the Easter break I fished them out and made a start on peels...

classic roast chicken and veg last night. tatties pumpkin and steamed broccoli. washed down with more diluted white rabbit.

I had a wine bottle explode on me a few months ago. Id left it sitting in my garage after taking it to a BBQ filled with apple juice. We had filled it to create the illusion that my mrs was drinking ( baby on the way). It had a may be a cup or so of juice left in it that must have had...

we had pea and ham soup. i was too late with the baking so no crusty bread. had to have toast instead. drank a couple of white rabbits, topped up with english bitter from the fermenter, its almost up to bottling. i was a bit ashamed to be knocking off beer from the fermenter but it seems...

ive seen 3 piece stainless valves at the evil hardware giant. can these be used? are the one sold by sponsors something special in terms of food grade or stainless quality?

love a good sandwich! usual weekend lunchtime fare at home lately: roast chicken, avacado, swiss sheese, lettuce and mayo prosciutto, blue cheese and quince paste on a good chewy bread decent smokey bacon, rocket leaves and tomato chutney slow braised pork with gravy and apple sauce. im a...

I made this recipe by manticle from this thread as my first atempt at brewing. http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum//ind...st&p=560571 1 x tin Coopers English Bitter 1.5 kg LDME 250g caramunich I 280g carared 230g crystal malt 140 120g roast barley 30g East Kent Goldings Wyeast 1084 I used a...

thanks for the replies guys. i dint get to brewing this weekend. hopefully next weekend for this one now. though i may need a heater pad first. tis getting cold.

HI all, I'm going to have a go at this one today but id just like some clarification on when to add what. Have i got this right? 1. steep grains for 45 minutes. 2. separately steep spices for 45 minutes. 3. drain grain and boil wort with malt extract for 45 minutes, adding hopps at the start of...

thanks for the input guys. I'll up the caramunich to 300 and drop the barley to 100 and see what i get. Ill keep the tinkering with the crystal and the caraPILS for the next brew. Manticle: Its not the bitterness that i dislike, i found the toasted/ smokeyness just a little too strong. I like...

Gday Guys, I made manticles recipe above as my first ever brew a month or so ago. batch was 23 literes as suggested. I used a tin of LME instead of the dry. Whitelabs WLP005 yeast. It came out quite well and I was pleased with the results. A nice dark red colour pleasant malty flavour. So...

hey guys. just a note to say i have a few of these at home. i use them to freeze stock and the like. these tubs arent very airtight. liquid will leak out if you invert them. go to the shelf next to these and get the sistema (sp) ones. they have a rubber gasket.

where did you find the upright rectangular bottles? Ive only seen the usual cube shaped water bottles that dont have flat bottoms or barrel ( traditional fermenter) shaped water bottles bunnings sell.

mayerling cellars at burnt bridge CM :icon_cheers: my local shop. the range does go up and down a bit but they arent bad for a small suburban bottlo. especialy when the nearest alternative is liquorland! Olinda cellars in the dandenongs has a pretty decent range of beers. im not sure theyd have...

what about roadside hard rubbish? does that go on in QLD? ive heard several stories of people here in melbourne picking up working fridges that have been discarded because they are old, ugly or damaged. sometimes they they have problems controlling the temperature and freeze over. bribe a...

Hi Pete, just a note to say I'm enjoying this thread. Keep it up! looking forward to hearing the result.

Thanks for that peels. I had a little walk arround the streets last nite and noticed the plumbs are right on the cusp of droping. several of the trees i was watching have already lost their fruit! 30+ tomorow, in a week there will be none left at all. its picking day!

Cheers all for the comments. :icon_cheers: davewaldo: will keep you posted. you think its important to stone the friut? DrSmurto: Thanks for the recipe. pectic enzyme: do i need it? what effect does the pectin have on a wine, anyone? i was keen to avoid too many additions. Fents: cheers...

Hi all. I'm a new brewer and and never atempted wine. This time of year we get a sudden and short lived glut of plumbs in the neighborhood. Plum sauce and relish are standards but i was considering what else i could do with the fruit. I've seen wine made from flowers and other fruits simply by...

great, thanks. i might give it a go this weekend.