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Just thought i would do a quick brew as i was home early for work. Doing a simple beer, trying to get things right. I was thinking of doing a SMASH with 4kg of Ale malt and Galaxy hops but just looked in the freezer and have a lot of old packs i could get rid of first. Here are some i have...

Just spent the weekend in Newcastle for my end of season footy trip and was amazed at the quality of beers that just about every pub has. I thought i would have had to drink New or VB all weekend but happily not the case. The first pub i went to was the Clarendon and had a 28 pale ale on tap...

Had a pint of this last week after playing footy in the city and loved it. After a search on here for a recipe it seems no one has posted one yet? There are a few older posts and some of them had hop types and what sort of malt goes in so after a little play around on beersmith i came up with a...

Dont know if this has been covered, have not been on here for a while but i have not seen it mentioned. A mate told me he bought some SNPA from Dan Murphys on friday and i couldnt believe it. Probably my favourite beer of all time available at a local bottle shop. Went down on saturday and got a...

Planning on brewing on the weekend, first one in months, cracked our grain last night in preperation and checked what we have. For the yeast we have just one pack of Wyeast 1272 American II in the fridge. As i brew with the neighour, we do @40L batches and split the wort, then do our own things...

Hi all, i have been wondering for a while if the different brands of grain make a big difference overall. We recently started buying and cracking our own grains and for our base malts, pilsner and pale, we got the full sack of 25 kg for each, both Joe White. Would we be better off spending a bit...

Anyone been to the Burleigh brewery? We are heading up there on monday for 2 weeks and are staying at Burleigh heads so want to visit this place while we are there. I had one of their pale ales at the hopfest earlier in the year and liked it. So is it a good place to visit, tours,samples etc?

Hi all, just need some help with the Kolsch recipe i have done. The flavour is nice, dont want to change it at all but will be using gelatine and filtering on this one to see the difference. The only problem is it has very little head. I have nothing to gauge my kolsch on so dont know if its...

Went to the Hunter Valley on the weekend and visited some wineries and stopped in to Potters Brewery on the way back and was very impressed. Its only a small place, and under renovations but we got to do the tour and of course sampled their beers. First one i had was the Kolsch that went down...

Hi all, just wanted to know how you guys go about getting your grains and keeping them stored at home. Each 40l brew we have done so far have been bought pre cracked at the LHBS but want to start bulk buying my own grains so i can just go to the garage and crack my own when needed. I have so far...

Need help quick, got a party this arvo and i found i left the gas tap on one of the kegs and its way over gassed. Whats the quickest way to bring it down to pouring level? Do i just take it out of the fridge and let out the gas every now and then or is there a quicker way to do it. Cheers in...

Pitched my first liquid yeast (Whitbread) last night at about 11:30 and stuck it in the fermenting fridge at about 20 degrees. I checked it just then expecting a nice foamy head but nothing has changed at all. I was a bit worried last night as i smacked the pack at about 9pm and was waiting for...

Since having a six pack of these in New York last year i have been hanging out to get my hands on some. Is there any bottle shops in sydney that stock Sierra Nevada Pale Ale? I know its gonna cost a bit but have decided what the heck, its Christmas! I live out near Penrith and i know i will have...

I have just bought a 90L aluminium pot for my BIAB setup, cost of $80, not too bad. Now i need a burner. We are going to brew double batches, well enough to fill two kegs, so about 40L in the end. Have been looking at the Mongolian burner from Craftbrewer with the 32 tips and medium pressure...

I have decided that BIAB is the way to go for my brewing and am currently searching for the right gear so we can brew doubles. I have been reading as many posts on here as i can as well as the guides but i for some reason cannot work out how you guys formulate your recipes for the BIAB method...

Is anyone out there doing double batches using the BIAB method? A mate and i want to get an AG setup big enough to each fill a keg at the end of brew day and this method will be alot cheaper to setup. Any tips or links to photos of your setups would be a great help. Cheers.

A neighour and i want to get into the full AG part of brewing and i'd like to know if its easy enough to do a double sized batch in AG to each fill up a keg at the end of the brew. Is it too hard to start off doing large batches or is it just a matter of having larger equipment and more...

Usually i search for recipes on here that appeals to me then i go buy all the ingredients from local homebrew shop, grains all ready to go and hops usually from craftbrewer. Now comes the problem, i stopped by a country brewer, thought i would try them and as i was unprepared just bought a few...