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For those in Adelaide. Stratco have the 9kg bottles on sale again for $44.95 including the 1st fill. I had my bottles filled this week and they cost $25 each to fill :( Cheers Pedro

Hi Finite B until you can do A :) As for C, you need a good rolling boil (I aim for 25 to 30mm of rolling peaks on the wort) and you have to get evaporation happening to drive off the undesirables. The 1/2 on lid is OK if you have a very large pot, like one of the 60 litre aluminium ones, but...

Hi brewers My HalfWit is bottle conditioned and only been in there for a week. so give another couple of weeks. Cheers Pedro

Sent a Pm to AdamT Cheers Pedro

MAH is sorta correct about what I was on about - the ATO laws are probably the hardest ones to cover. Tangent - did you mention to the OLGC about a "cover charge" at all or just about serving drinks at a hotel? Cheers Pedro

tangent As soon as you charge a "small fee" a sale has taken place, so technically, you are getting into a frowned on activity and start to run foul of liquour licensing and ATO Excise rules. The Office of the Liquor and Gambling Commissioner would be the first ones to ask. If we get a...

Whistlingjack It is understood implicitly, that when any brewery supplies beer to a hotel, that they are paying for the contents, not the keg and that the keg remains the property of the brewery. I believe that the sale of the beer to the retailer would have the same conditions and the retailer...

We could consult the BJCP guidelines, but you wouldn't be happy with that either :P Pedro (who is ducking for cover)

Hey TDA Do you think you can cope with a drink at your age? :P Cheers Pedro PS Happy Birthday

GMK If it says soft water and you are starting from rain water, then just add gypsum (food grade, naturally) to your water for the yeast to be happy. If you have some brewing software, just work out the water profile to be about 50 to 60 ppm of Ca and all will be happy. The software will give...

The beer list 1 Kai 2 AdamT - American IPA - Confirmed 3 GMK - First AG Oktoberfest 4 SteveSA - Nothing Fancy Here APA - Confirmed 5 Dr Gonzo - Weizenbock - Confirmed 6 Jazman 7 Voosher - ESB - Confirmed 8 wee stu - amarillo wheat - Confirmed 9 RussTaylor - I'm just up the road in Blackwood and...

I don't want to set MAH off, but... You need to know a bit about each of the beer styles and how they compare to each other - eg Bohemian Pils vs German Pils vs Helles Bock and also typical beers of a region. While you are studying this, you taste as many beers from the relevant style as you can...

Hi The Shot Duck You need a few more poll items 1. I have already passed the Bjcp exam 2. I have already failed the BJCP exam 3. I am about to sit the exam The Adelaide group are sitting their exam on Nov 15. Cheers Pedro

Hey sammus I think your 4 double shot is what I need to start the day :), but too much for a stout. bear A bodum is a glass coffee plunger and no, I wouldn't use instant. Cheers Pedro

Hi bear I make up a small bodum of fresh coffee, (about 2 cups) and add it to the fermenter I only use fairly ordinary coffee and not too strong as it is to compliment the stout flavours and not dominate them. Cheers Pedro

My bottling line should arrive soon and I can make up the numbers to 24 for an even carton. If we can get one more taker.......... Cheers Pedro

I have resisted saying anything in this thread so far The beers that I would like to brew and replicate are the Gulf Brewery beers :P Pedro

peels I think if you can use the coil for both functions, you are on a winner. The seals where you recirculate your wort must be air tight, otherwise you could suffer from hot side aeration with the amount of wort recirculate. I would add the coil into the HLT as this ensures that your wort...

Hi peels The more length that you can have in the HLT the better, so that you get the maximum heat transfer from the HLT water into the wort. I think I used 6 or 8 metres. You only want the HLT to be a degree or 2 above the required wort temperature so that you do not denature the enzymes...

Hi everyone in this thread I have sort of been following this thread. I wrote some code in VB.net to monitor temperatures and control step mash (PM if you want the source code). I used the DS1820's as sensors. If you want code for reading / writing to the DS1820's, have a look at Digitemp and...