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Good to know, cheers Airgead!

Just mucking about today with a quick experimental small-batch brew... Now that the temperature in Brisbane is consistently below 20'c I figure it's a good time to muck about with some small batch brewing at ambient temps (outside of the brewfridge). I decided to go with this recipe as all the...

A great place with an amazing range of beers and some pretty nice micro-brew of their own on tap. I think this place is a regular haunt for a lot of AHB-ers and only a short walk from the Brisbane German Club which has awesome beers and food too. I've been on pub crawls that never ended up...

There's this person on ebay if you are willing to pay the extra cost. No affiliation but maybe a cash investment now for years of 'hop-iness' in the future?

Gotta clean your tap sir. I keep a spray bottle of Phosphoric sanitizer on hand to clean my taps after taking samples. A very useful thing to have around. Just give it a blast or three right up the tap nozzle after taking your sample, it generally does the trick.

It might be a few things but my guess is that it might be something in your fermenter. How long since you last removed and cleaned the tap? Don't forget to clean the thread the tap screws into as well. Those are both classic places for a bug to hide. Remove the tap, pull it apart if you can...

I've got two packs of us-05 bubbling away in an American wheat at 14'c atm. Low and slow gets you a nice clean neutral flavor IMHO.

I just showed that listing to SWMBO with a hopeful smile on my face. She actually recognized it! Half of her family is from the Gong and Daptos League Club was their watering hole for a long time. "I used to drink there, so did my Mum, dad and a lot of my cousins but where the hell are we going...

+1 to this. Even an ale yeast is gonna sweat out some unpleasant flavors working at those temps. Getting it down to 12 - 14'c would be better but even at 18'c you'll end up with something akin to a california steam ale. I understand that they're brewed on lager yeasts at ale temperatures.

Just knocked these out via BIAB in my new 40lt Crown urn... Kiwi Bright Ale OG: 1.044 FG: 1.011 IBUs: 26 ABV: 4.4% 67% Weyermanns Premium Pilsner Malt 19% Weyermanns Vienna Malt 9% JW Unmalted Wheat 5% Weyermanns Carapils 0.4 g/l of NZ Cascade (7.6%AA) @ 45min 0.4 g/l of NZ D Saaz (5.4%AA)...

Just got my 40lt Crown urn from Martin & the crew at NHB and I couldn't be happier with it or the transaction. I started bugging Martin about getting an urn a few weeks back but due to renovations going on in the shop he didn't have the space to keep spares about and I was crap outta luck...

Hmmm, I think I found the info I needed here - I might just pay the extra for the frozen berries.

Resurrecting an old thread here like a lightning bolt into Frankensteins monster... Does anyone have an experience using tinned or jar preserved cherries in their beer? My concern is that the 'syrup' they are preserved in might add a big slug of extra sugar to the beer - drying it out. However...

It all depends on you efficiency but that above would be about a 20lt recipe. It's a solid recipe but I'd add 200g of flaked oats and 200g of flaked wheat to that too just to round it out. Maybe even consider some citrus zest at the end of the boil?

I haven't cleaned my brew fridge in months... it's not going mouldy and it still smells ok. In truth I just couldn't be assed. :blush:

I read as much too. I'm seeing some activity now but not as much as I would like - I might slow down my stepping-up process to compensate.

Hi guys, So I put a lovely little Yeast starter on the go yesterday in prep for brewing on the weekend, 100ml of wort with a 1/4 of a wyeast pack in it to kick off. Then I got out of bed this morning and my first thought was 'Better step up that starter...' No breakfast or coffee yet, I...

Maybe the abbey strain is made for higher gravity beers... even so 11g of yeast does seem a bit light on for this recipe.

Lol kinda but the point was to stop the water going everywhere and making a mess, whether in my wort or out of it. Gotta fix that leak...