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I've recently noticed a little beer in my gas lines, which got me thinking about non-return valves. But forking out $25-30 each for the ones on Craftbrewer don't really appeal to me as I'll need 3, and considering I just bought a Robobrew I don't really want to drop $90 on valves. I did find...

Will swap for a few of your finest. Got this from another member a while ago, never got about to using it, happy enough with no-chilling at present. Well, at least until I get myself a GrainFather...

Surplus to my needs. 45 x 330mL Flensburger bottles. They're all fairly clean, but I'm guessing, like me, anyone who takes them would give them a good wash anyhow. They're in good nick, seals are all good. Will trade for 6 bottles of your finest. Pick up from Pennant Hills (late...

OK So I've got a STC-1000 coming which I've plans to use for a budget HERMs rig (yes, I know a PID controller would be better, which I may do later) My question is... Would I be better of getting a screw in temp probe, I can permanently attach to my HLT (like this -...

No sure if any one else has come across this. The last couple of times I've shopped at Woolies I've grabbed something from the deli ($1.90 worth of ham one time). When I checked out, I had printed on the bottom of my receipt a little voucher for BWS. $10 off a 6 pack of James Squires OR $10...

I've got a stack of empty bottles hanging around which could do with filling, so going to work on my small batch (15L) brews, to get some variety happening. I've not done an IPA before so thought I'd start with that. 15L 4kg Pale Ale Malt 0.5kg Light Munich 0.4kg Torrified Wheat 0.2kg Crystal...

Any one else used this recently. I split a vial and made up a starter, then pitched it into a SMaSH pale ale at 17 deg OG=1.054 last Thursday night, set the fridge to 18.5 deg. By Saturday it was down to 1.014. Holy crap that was quick.

Anyone tried to recondition and use it in a brew? Another thread has it as a proprietary blend of 2 British Ale yeasts, which I thought was odd for an American Wheat beer.. Sent from my Samsung S3 using Tapatalk.

I'm always looking on ways to make my life easier, especially when it comes to cleaning up after a brew day. My current rig is a 40L aluminium pot with twin $8 kettle (2200w) elements. (I'm guessing they're nickel coated copper, someone correct me if I'm wrong) My current cleaning regime is to...

Anyone around the Hills or Hornsby interested in a Sodium Perc bulk buy? Just putting out the feelers at this point. No guarantees that it'll go ahead, I haven't even gotten prices yet.

I'm using Beersmith 1.4 currently. On my new brew rig I'm losing approximately 4 degrees over a 60 minute mash, which is far from ideal. Is there a way to allow for heat loss during the mash? I was thinking about having a step at the 30 minute mark to bring the mash back up to temp, but this...

I've started a bulk-buy for stir bars if anyone is interested. Head over to http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/74830-stir-bar-bulk-buy-anyone/ Only posting this so it's viewable in the "Recent Posts" side bar section. If the admins have an issue with this post please remove it. Cheers, Mike

So I've built myself a fancy schmancy DIY stir plate. Looking around for Stir-bars I've been pretty surprised at the prices, much higher than I assumed. I've managed to get myself an account at Livingstone Lab Supplies, who have very reasonable prices, but shipping on 1 or 2 stir-bars is 3...

Getting rid of my fermentation box. Built this before I had a second fridge to ferment in. Swap in/out frozen coke bottles in the bottom. Just needs a little pc fan and an stc-1000 to complete it. (I moved the fan and stc to my ferment fridge, and binned the power supply, heat pad also not...

So finally gotten around to going all grain. Had some money for my birthday and got the OK from the CFO to spend it on brew gear. Went ahead and bought one of these: http://www.thebrewshop.com.au/insulated-mash-tun-36-litre.html Looks like the SS false bottom included is the 20cm one. My...

I was lucky enough to be given a sum of money for my birthday the other day and have received the ok from the finance controller to spend it on brew gear. So I'm looking into BIAB in an Urn. Has anyone had any experience with these...

Some time ago I purchased a nice Stainless Steel (430 grade) BBQ off eBay. Got a good price, and it's worked great, and continues to work great. My problem is that as with all BBQ's some of the parts are starting to deteriorate. The flame tamers were aluminimum so have basically rusted through...

Hey all, I've got 2 x taps for sale. They are very similar to the Chrome Micromatic taps that Craftbrewer sell except they also have a black plastic spout making the spout longer. Only selling as I've just upgraded to the Perlick 545PC flow control taps (which are awesome I might add)...

Hi all, I have 2 x 3rd year hop plants both years have had good growth but they have to grow in the front yeard and look a bit crap, so I'm ending my foray into growing hops. They were going to go to a mate, but said mate has just had a 2nd child and alas has no time for growing hops. One...

So I was looking into building a DIY Sous Vide and a few of the guides mention using a PID controller like this: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/110834647581?ss...984.m1423.l2649 What I'd like to know is what's the difference between using one of these and using an STC-1000 like I have on my...