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I'd give the starter until tomrrow night before getting too upset, if you have put a small amount of yeast into a 1L starter its going to take some time. As long as you sanitise everything your brew should be good to sit in the fermenter until the starter fires up. If not then throw in the dry...

Unless it gets rediculously expensive I would be interested in grabbing some of this. Always looking for a new strain and if its a specially imported one then why not indeed :)

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...&hl=promash

After that review I reckon I will be trying 1007 next :) current fav is 1968 however. If you like malt flavour then this one is a winner. Great in a ESB.

Congrats Sean, sleep is overated apparently :o hope the brew stocks are good you will be busy for a bit I bet.

Roger I will grab a bottle as well if there is some left. I wont ba able to make it tomorrow but can collect it at the next WCB meet if GL is going to be there. Happy to DD the $$ to your account if you send me the details. Thanks Jason

I was under the impression that tannin extraction increases with both wort pH and temperature. Fly spargers can run the risk of increasing the wort pH by oversparging more so than batch spargers I believe. In terms of it being ok to dump 15-20L on your grains for batch sparging I have no idea...

Rob I don't think this would be the problem, having the beer tap above the keg will give you a slightly higer pressure drop as you have to push the beer up the extra height. If you did overcarbonate your beer it can take some time to get the gas out. You will find you have to burp it a number...

Its not a renowned crawler? That said I have 26L of APA in a 30L fermenter and the Krausen has reached the top. Hoping it doesn't climb out as I don't fancy cleaning up the ferm freezer. A nice yeast in any event.

Yep lots of factors. 1) 2m of line may not be enough depending on what the ID of the line is. You basically want the pressure drop over the line to be almost equal to your pouring pressure so the beer comes out at a nice pace and not like a rocket. 2) Overcarbonated? How did you carbonate...

Well as long as GL gets his rocks hot I am sure the day will go well. Unfortunately I can't make it, look forward to the pics.

'fraid it went to the tip.

Of late I am enjoying lagers but don't have enough cool room space for ferments :(

Fly sparging should be fine. For a beer > 1.045 I just sparge to my required boil volume (27L) however with low grav beers like that I would keep an eye on the gravity of the runnings and stop when it hits 1.010 and top the kettle up with water as vlbaby says.

Well my Chinook & Mt.Hood showed up today, sent the money on the w/end so very fast delivery. Perhaps quarantine missied mine :D So do i plant or put em in the fridge for a but ? Time for some research.

Cheers Hashie, hopfully have a chinook and Mt.Hood in my possesion soon :) I'll try not to get my hopes up for a massive crop this year :P

Not yet Doc but I was just thinking yesterday that the all wheat porter or something like that would be a good one to revisit soon. I still have that same sack of wheat. Was thinking of Hop Burst JPA after the next brew, perhaps I will have a crack at a 100% wheat hop burst just for the sake of...

Welcome to AHB Macka, I have merged your post with the long standing introduce yourself thread to keep it all in one place.

When I used to force carb I used the gas disconnect (lazy) and you don't have to turn it on its side you just rock as above and you will hear the gas going in, it will just be a little bit more rocking as you are not getting as much gas/liquid contact as bubbling via the liquid line. Turning the...

Yep spot on. There is only so far I was ever going to go in trying to provide exact conditions for each brew because I simply dont have room to ferment two lagers simultaneously. The stored no chill wort was kept at 13degC for the duration (except for the slow chill at ambient overnight). Who...