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If you're in any of the capital cities you're bound to find a specialist beer shop that will knock your socks off. But you still have to put up with the beer being in transport for a while and having lost some of it's charm if it's imported (as most good beer is). Support the local craft...

What the duck is a gym?

How about insulating the kettle? That should help. Anybody out there put any insulation around the kettle? That's what i'm planning to do

Meads are great if made well but they give you hangovers. I heard there's something in honey that stays in after the fermentation and buggers you up. I also know they take quite a while to ferment out. But they are nice!!!! That's all I know, i'm all about beer.

Try the 20 bottles and see what happens. My experiance with liqorice extract is that it's quite strong. I've added half a vial into the fermenter once and thought the flavour was way too strong. This was before my brew records so I don't know how much half a vile was. A drop might be too much...

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I had a bad experiance with liquid yeat once. Ordered some from across the state. By the time it got here it took way to long to activate. It was dead!!! Ended up with some crappy beers after pitching emergency dry yeset. These liquid yeast is fregile as all. Take good care with them

It has happened. I read stories of guys passing out from the CO2 in the opened fermenters. What a way to go. Drowned in beer.

Yeh that is very true. But still, one day when i will brew the best beer in the world, i will pay for a statue of myself for the city of perth. I'm planning on one showing me barfing in the toilets or one accidently spliting my head open against the brew kettle. "gwozniwk, died doing what he...

That looks funky, have u tried a stout with all that smoked malt before?

Do you use maris otter? I find that to give a bit of a "woody" taste to the beer. Did you find that?

So dextrose would do the job? I'm trying to replicate Fullers Lonon Pride so any advice would be gold.

What does maize do in beers anyway?

Good record keeping there too!!! Is it just me or is there a hell of a lot wheat there? I haven't used wheat before tho so i wouldn't know.

hahahah now whos a funy fuker? :D

I've brewed about 5 all grain. Still to get that sparge trick right. Hard work. But beers come out great anyway. Just need to ajdust your efficiency in brewsmith.

Ok fine, i've moved onto Nick Cave to make this a more aussie afair.

Hi all Who's brewed a gold winnign oatmeal stout and what's the secret? My last batch wasn't "gold winning".

Mate I'm polish and after living here for 20 years i still got a thick, heavy accent which gets worse the more i drink but i'm about as aussie as they come. Listening to Pink Floyd right now. Great music for beer and a game of darts.

I use hot tap water whenever I can to speed things up. Never noticed any problems with it but not sure about if hot water is beeter at picking up crap from the pipes.