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SWMBO has requested a Red Back similar beer on tap at home, so brew #1 for 2017 is going to be an attempt. Advice / Critique appreciated - doesn't seem to have been much Red Back chat recently! 2.5kg Wheat 2kg Pilsner 250g Vienna Mash Schedule: Mash in 37oC & heat to 50oC held for 20...

Hi all, Hop pellets looking for a good home: EKG - 500g, 4.7% aa German Mittelfruh - 500g, 3.4% aa Both 2012 harvest, have been kept in the foil vacuum packs in the freezer, never opened. Would prefer pick-up / drop-off Geelong area, maybe a bottle of your own in exchange! Roo.

Half way through an AG AIPA brew day, have decided to rationalise my hop stock. Free (or a bottle of your near-finest) to a good home, would prefer pick-up or can deliver in the Geelong area / Geelong-Essendon corridor. Galena 300g 11.1% 2010 Perle 300g 7.1% 2011 Striesselspalt 350g 2.5% 2011...

So I've checked the new mash tun, no leaks, sorted my sparge water vessel and technique, and got the kettle / burner position figured to collect my first all grain wort and go with the boil. I've chosen the recipe, picking up the grains ready cracked tomorrow, and the wee yeasties are sitting...

A simple question here, but one that has been on my mind for a while now, and a few searches have yet to answer it... If I add 3kg LDME to 20L water for a boil, the total volume of the resulting liquid increases accordingly, to a final volume greater than the original 20L water. So... Is the...

Free to a good home... 88 clean & de-labeled ex-Carlton Draught 750ml long necks, surplus to requirements. Available now, Geelong area. The recycle bin gets emptied in 10 days otherwise!

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Went on a recent trip to the A. Le Coq Brewery in Tartu, Estonia, and happened upon this recipe for homebrew in their museum. A very modern brewery, producing a number of decent lagers and ales, and a very nice Porter! Unfortunately I was about a month too early for the yearly limited Xmas...

I've just harvested the yeast cake from an all-Cascade American Pale that I've brewed using yeast procured from some long-necks of Cooper's PA. Moving the beer from 1ry to 2ry, the beer tastes a bit crisper and cleaner than my usual US-05 Pale Ales at the same stage of the process. Very...

With the dollar soon expected to reach parity with the Americanese, are we really expected to purchase our hops in Australia, or from the local HBS?! At US$8.75 / 500g, I'll be putting my order in pronto! http://www.hopsdirect.com/hops/pellethops.html Bought from them last year when the...

I've got into the habit of putting my brews into the fridge for secondary, and therefore the temperature at which I bulk prime and bottle is several degrees lower than the fermentation temperature. When calculating the residual CO2 of a brew, and therefore the amount of fermentable needed to be...

First time bottle bomb tonight - came home to kitchen smelling of beer and a rather sticky floor. Cracked open the bottle adjacent to the culprit, and it's not over-carbed (and tastes mighty nice, a Munster Oktoberfest), so thinking a defect in the bottle - Carlton Draught long necks, not well...

I've got in to the habit of washing, sanitising, and then baking my bottles in the oven at 250oC for an hour immediately prior to bottling. Does anybody else do this, or am I getting just a little too OCD with my bottle hygiene?! :unsure: 24 Long necks fit perfectly in the oven, but don't...

Work is taking me overseas for 16 weeks, mainly the UK, but also venturing onto mainland Europe for at least 6 weeks, France and Germany, and as yet unknown eastern europe / baltic states. Would be interested and most grateful to receive the learned opinion on the best beers to sample. My...

I've been playing around in the home brew world for a while now, and haven't bought more than a couple of six-packs of commercial pisch for home in the last 10 months. The last few weeks I've noticed that beers down the pub no longer do anything for me, they are generally bland, tasteless...

Just opened a bottle of ale I brewed back on 7th July 2009, and its blown me away how tasty it is. Thought Id share the goodness 100g Crystal Malt 50g Chocolate Malt 30g Black Malt Steeped in 1L water as warming up towards boil over 30mins. Grains removed at 30mins (poured through sieve into...

Fresh Hops from the USA, the perfect time to throw down some APA's, to try out some of the new hoppy goodness. All 2009 crops... Same basic recipe: 8.5L boil, 7.5L transferred and topped up to 10L 100g Crystal Malt steeped and added to boil 500g LDME to boil 500g LDME at end of boil 260g...

I've just made the conversion from tap water to mineral water, as the stuff coming out of the tap down here has taken on a particular nasty tang. As I sit here waiting for the next hop addition to go in, I took a cursory glance at the "nutritional information" on the side of the water box...