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Hi guys I checked the FAQs and did a search here but I cant find and answer. Is it important that I cool my extract wort down after the boil because otherwise splashing a hot wort would cause undesirable or stale flavours? I read an artical that said splashing hot wort would cause oxidation...

Hi, Im giving away my old homebrewing fridge. Its a GE 360, and I've pulled the fridge door insides off to allow for two fermenters to fit in. It works fine. I used my fridgemate temp controller with it for brewing lagers. If your interested i'm in Preston, Vic. PM me and i'l give you my...

Hi, Im giving away my old homebrewing fridge. Its a GE 360, and I've pulled the fridge door insides off to allow for two fermenters to fit in. It works fine. I used my fridgemate temp controller with it for brewing lagers. If your interested i'm in Preston, Vic. PM me and i'l give you my...

Hey Ive googling around trying to find answers to somehow know if my brew is fermented out Ive made my brew actually it was the snowy mountain pale ale from brewcraft : 1 Can Pilsner Blonde 1 Can Light Liquid Malt 1.5kg and hops Using the Muntons Gold yeast I pitched at a gravity reading of...

Hey ... I thought I would try to aerate my wort as I was pouring it into the fermenter by splahing and pouring water in from a height.. Wort was still 30 degrees, now I have have just read wort must we chilled before doing this as it can cause oxidation.. omg I have wort in chiller now...

Just scored a fridge for my fermenters and was wondering if it were necessary to vent it to allow all the gases out . I know what its like then I open the fermenter lid.. just didnt want to open door and drop dead... plus I could imagine some gases seeping into the wort again .. thanks

I was looking at this flier from a micro brew house and they suggested that you refrigerate your finished beer bottles because they contain no preservatives. Could someone please shed some light on this for me please. Cheers and hope were all having a great chrissy..

Hey guys .. Just sifting through some info in the net and started reading about the causes of chlorine in your homebrew. I live in Melbourne and we seem to have fantastic tap water. Melbourne water website says they use the equivalent of half a cup in a an average swimming pool. Could I be...

Hello ... I thought I would try a second stage ferment and siphoned it into another fermenter... now been there for one week. I would like to know how to determine the right amount of priming sugar(dextrose) to use as the guy at the home brew shop said that I probably should have not done so...

Hey fellow brewers, Just a quick section on storing your bottles in the secondary ferment stage at 20c. I currently have them loaded into some milk creates in my garage but its only around 15c . How do you guys achieve this ?? thats keeping the baby's warm enough to gas up. I have a heat pad...