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Wouldn't the boil kill any nasties? Basic Brewing did an experiment with leaving a mash to sour and it took something like 3 days (from memory)

Congratulations on your 3000th post Les. Public holiday declared?

Average BAC for me this year is 0.12

Nice find! I've signed up too.

This is my favorite word now. Felt like I should go to the trubble of telling you all that.

Poor form HBHB. Made me snort my coffee all over my desk.

I tried the glad wrap thing but found my wort was very quickly contaminated with curious cat. Luckily the cat was able to scramble her way out and didn't drown but I'm afraid the beer didn't make it.

I bottled this one last night, FG was 1.004 giving me about 1.9% abv. I ended up dry hopping with 10g of cascade late last week as the aroma was a bit flat. Flavour wise it's not bad, needs a little something more but as a starting point I'm really happy with it. I'll be brewing version 2...

Brewed this one yesterday arvo, first time in ages I've done a brew on the stovetop so I had to guess a few of the volumes. Miscalculated the boil off by quite a ways so ended up with 12L of wort at 1.018, not upset by this as it will still give me a light beer around 1.7%. The colour is about...

My bogan mates come around to my house and drink my home brew. My hipster mates come around to my house and sample hand crafted artisanal ales. It's all about marketing.

thanks black_labb, thats quite the essay, some really great info there :)

Based on that I'm changing my target IBU to 15 which will bring me near an american amber ale style. Thanks for the pickup there brewtas, I'd have been able to strip paint with my original recipe ;)

Nicked the following info from a Beersmith blog entry: To calculate the bitterness ratio we start with the number of international bitterness units or IBUs. For example, lets say we start with a beer that has 30 IBUs. We then take the original gravity of the beer (for example 1.048), take...

brewtas that Balance Value Formula sounds like something I need to consider, thanks for the heads up, I'll do some recalculating with that in mind. I'm excited about this beer, it's a byproduct of my attempt at a sierra nevada ruthless rye IPA, I always get a kilo or so extra of each malt when...

MartinOC I don't mind a bit of sour in my summer swillers, as long as it's not too overpowering and served cold. I like the idea of brewing something big then splitting some off to dilute down to a light beer, will give that a go with my next pale ale and see how it turns out, I've got a few...

I was watching a recent video episode of Basic Brewing () where James had put together a couple of very light beers (less than 2% abv) using Rye and Wheat, his reasoning being the rye adds a lot of mouthfeel so the brews would not taste too watery. I figured it would be nice to have some light...

Bumping an old thread Has anyone been here recently? Organising a few beers with workmates in a couple of weeks and this is not far from the office. They get the award for least informative website ever...

Kits are fine, I used them for 5 years and made some good beers, but if you want real control All Grain is the way to go. I think someone else has redone that thread with pictures, will have a search around and post it if I get the chance. If you're going to start with kits the Coopers brewing...

Welcome aboard ryzaa, you've taken the first step on your way to obsession ;) 100L batches is hardly a small operation, most home brewers are closer to the 20L mark. I would personally reccomend you start a little smaller and scale up once you feel like you are making beer that you want to...

http://www.corebrewingconcepts.com.au/ definetly has them, I've gotten them from there plenty of times in the last year.