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Where did you get the "heater" thing, and how much? I just did my second and like the first my hands are red with all the squeezing i do to the bag! and the liquid is not "clear" I noted, Its all thick with sediment, That's ok, yes?

Does it matter if after 2 days in the fridge at 12.5c you don't see any activity or "Smell" yet? Its the first time ive not smelt the sulpher after 12 hours before, I'm worried about all the Break material that went into the fermenter..

Did Mine today, with the same recipe, Added 250g of caramalt grain as I was getting a 500g bag, Thought Id Split it. OG was at 1040 (after I topped up the fermenter to 21L with water) with a 90mn mash and some serious "sparging" I think the word is, LHBS did not have whirlock tabs so I got...

A Bit OT But.... hahah My first computer was the VZ-300. My dad used it untill the mid 90's , He loved the Geos!! Ive just gone back home (1200k's away!) and collected all the bits of VZness he had (loads) and tucked em away in storage, next thing is Im going to professionally transfer the...

wow this is great!. The last time I saw anything in the QLD "rags" about HB was 2 years ago, it's what got me into brewing. The article was in a major paper in the color supplement on the weekend, also in the paper too (just a recap type add thing to make to go read the full thing) It went...

Ive been here nearly (sort of) 2 years. Ive learnt a great deal from this site and had a few laughs too (what happened to butters?) What amazes me is how fasty's managed to post nearly 400 times... Ive j..u..s..t. gone over the 100 mark! I spend an hour or two every other night checking over...

I use finnings 6 days before bottling and then after 3 days I add some Polyclar, There is NO sediment and the last bottle from the wort is crystal clear. Here is the last bottle from the fermenter, being a stingy bugger i tipped the fermenter to get this one. so by rights it should look fithy...

The best way Ive found out to sanitize bottles? Nappysan soak for a week (while brewing) then a hot water rinse-out and into the over, I remove one of the shelvs and put all my longnecks or stubbes in there, can usualy get a full 23L's of bottle! Turn the oven on its hottest setting and leave...

I never worry what the taste is when "doing the Gravities" ( a soon to be Hit Dance) It does give you a taste (excuse the pun) of what the taste "could" be like. Ive had some pretty shit tasting brown-vomit-water out of my fermenter but yet when ive had it in the dark for 2-3 months its...

I go over the top and use Home Brand Nappysan (unscented) Its costs 5$ for 2kg and i use about 6 capfulls in hot water to fill my Fermenter. let the tap full a bit to get it in the tap and then wait 3-5 days/ Never had an infection since i did this. and its cheap too. Oh and throw all your...

Yeap Right on man, I was a contractor too, doing the "inveatigation work" as many many people would get the sack when teh customer wanted someone sacked they could blame in on the poor paid temps and "let one of us go" It was appalling workplace, we were belittled by our bosses who would...

Probably an Liecend Post Office, who can have their own rules as well as Auspost ones. As an ex investigator im pretty impressed that they diddt give you the pakage!. The main prob is them giving packages to the wrong person or when the "contractor" read overseas student, leaves your...

That Beer booster, I asked the guy at kendron about it a couple of weeks ago. from what I can remember he said his dad made up the concoction years ago, he was a industrial chemist and a home brewer (who owned a LHBS), he recons there's hops in it (coudent say what though) and yest nutrient...

Hope it dosent go missing!, eaily this year I worked for Australia post in their "lost parcel Investigation unit", The story's I could tell! I used to get a few lost wine parcels, and had to deal with very very arragant and snobbish people!! I left coudent take being insulted all day when All...

Cool, let us know how the experiment worked! Ive played around with 2l bottles with yeast before, unfortunately the ones I tried failed, tasted pretty bad! (I was trying fruit juice's, yeah bound to come up with varied results, most'y bad) But hey, good luck!

Anyone? I Put 2-4g of yeast neutriant into my 2 lagers while boiling the grain liqueur, They have been down a week at 12c, just took a reading and one has gone from 1050 to 1010 and the other 1036 yo 1008, This being super quick, im hoping they wont keep fermenting till dry!

doing a coopers Canadian with lotsa citra right now, Be ready in a couple of days. I used 1 kit coopers canadian 1kg brew booster (it diidnt have the quantities written on it so I got rid of it with this batch) 1 250g Lager grain steeped US-05 at 18c the whole way (very controlled temp!) 15g...

Im doing the same thing! Ive got a very small room that used to be a laundry, Just enough space of a table to put a computer on! The last people who lived here put a reverse cycle Air con in the room and used it for a office. So im trying a US-05 job with Coopers Canadian and Citra at 18c...

A week later and the entire range of homr brew gear at Kmart QLD Mt Omnney is still on special!

Went to Kmart the other night for a Coops Canadian Blond for my Citra Experement. everything was marked down, got some be1 for 4$ each and a new "bottler" with useless tape for 4$, etc,.. the whole range is on special.. one wonders if this is the end of home brew at regular shops.