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My home brew direction has changed, so this equipment is now surplus to my needs and I'm offering this to AHB members before putting it on eBay or Gumtree. I have a Cold Flow Concord Ice Bank/Temprite. Has four separate beer coils plus a built-in recirc pump to chill a flooded font. Also...

I recovered this immersion heater from a Zip hot water heater. I have tested it and it works. It has exposed live parts so will need some heatshrink and or a suitable enclosure to use it safely. I also pulled off a 70 degree thermo switch which I'll include if desired. I dont know what this is...

I'm going to be building a shed early next year and I'm planning to include a brew room. The shed is nominally 4m wide and 9m long, with the back 2m housing a bathroom and laundry (2m x 2m nominal each). On the plans it will be called a laundry, but it will be primarily used as a brew room...

I have a couple of used pluto guns up for sale if anyone's interested. They came with my ice-bank and I don't think I'll ever use them so here they are. The are used in fair condition, one of the handles has a chip out of it which does not affect it's functionality. I guess you could replace...

I've put off starting to brew for way too long and have resolved to do it now. I haven't collected all the kegging equipment yet and won't have disposable cash to do so for months so thinking about potential work-arounds. I've collected enough bottles to bottle the beer, but I was planning on...

This is a very similar question to to my other one about Becks bottles but want to know if James Squire bottles are ok for home brew. They're appealing as they're brown crown seals, albeit only 345mL. Issue is that I note they're marked "no refill" around the base. Does this apply to...

Picked up a carton of Becks swill from the bottle shop the other day. It's ok and was cheap enough, but the most interesting thing was the bottles. I'm considering using these for brewing as they're crown seals. They're green glass, which is probably not as good as brown but not too bad...

You can never have too many stubby coolers, but my collection is starting to get really untidy and the threat of a "rationalisation" is over my head (i.e. "you don't need so many stubby coolers"). Anyone got any creative ideas for how to store stubby coolers neatly and easily accessibly? I've...

I'm looking for a fermenting fridge and might be able to get hold of a chesty for not much. I have an ice bank so I don't need it for a kegerator so can I use if for fermenting? Main drawbacks I can see are getting the fermenters in and out and also sampling SG. Altermatively, if I get hold...

Does anyone do kits like James Squire? Reason I ask is that I had a couple of James Squire Golden Ales at a restaurant which I loved and would be interested in trying to brew something similar if such a kit were available.

As the topic suggests, I'm slowly acquiring everything I need to get into home brewing. Put the cart before the horse a bit in that I already have an ice bank and a 4-way flooded font but no brewing stuff. Was originally planning to just go down to Coles and buy a Coopers Home Brewing kit but...

Those of you who've seen my thread about Andale taps and fonts will know that I'm not going down the chesty or keg fridge route - I've got an icebank. Now I do have a fridge in the bar but it's a glass bar fridge which is big enough for any drinks I won't be dispensing through the font but...

I'm slowly collecting bits and pieces for a draught keg set-up, it all started when I picked up a 4-coil icebank chiller at an auction for $40: The bench I built on the new deck has two "cupboards" reserved for the icebank and kegs. There's effectively two more fridge-size spaces to the left...

Does anyone use 22kg CO2 cylinders? I have an empty one under the house that I came across some time ago. Is there any reason you don't see too many in home brew setups other than size? If I can get it filled an use it, it will have to live on the patio below the deck where the font and...

I'm starting to collect all I need for a keg set up. The first thing I've acquired is a four-line temprite/icebank with a coolant pump for a flooded font. I'll probably set up for commercial kegs first up (XXXX/Tooheys coupler), to spread the expenditure out and get the keg dispensing system...

Hi everyone, Long time lurker, first time poster. I've been wanting to get into home brew for a while now but was never keen on washing bottles and expected to jump straight into kegging. That's still the plan but I picked up a chiller at an auction on the weekend which has motivated me to...