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I homebrewed like crazy from around 2009 to 2011 then stopped for a while when I went traveling... I dug around in my cellar to see what I had in the stockpile and found that a lot of my really old homebrew (from around 2010 and 2011) had some strange light tint to the top surface of the liquid...

I've been brewing beer for over a year now and I really love it and feel I've just about got the whole process down... I am starting university this year doing Viticulture and Oenology (Adelaide Uni) and thought I might give homebrew wine making a go. I drink mostly red wine, and would like to...

I got this 25L Tooheys Home Brew Fermenter from a mate who never used it and it's doing weird shit to my beers. Every beer I have made in it has somehow developed weird white flakey stuff on the surface of the beer when bottled. I use another 30L Brewcraft fermenter and have never had this issue...

I have recently discovered a strange white flakiness that is appearing on top of the liquid in my more recent bottles of homebrew... A couple of my last brews have had this happen and I can't work out what it is or how it happens. The first time I noticed it was when I made a Heineken style...

I have some kind of brewer's curse that only allows all of my beers to ferment down to a gravity of 1.020... 1.015 at best, depending on the style of beer and ingredients. This one has to be by far the most annoying yet. I put down a Choc Orange porter using Cascade Choc Mahogany Porter kit +...

G'day beernuts. Bought me a Cascade Chocolate Mahogany Porter kit can the other day (was on special for 10 smackers) and some chocolate grain to make a chocolate porter, but was considering adding some sort of orange flavour to make it more jaffa-ey. The guy at my LHBS suggested only adding...

Evening brewers! I just had a question about the alcohol content in 'non-alcoholic' ginger beer. I was told that even commercial Bundaberg Ginger Beer that you buy in just about every shop thesedays is actually some percent alcoholic, however very very small. It is so low that it actually...

Just bottled my Heineken style lager today and was wondering if I need to condition the bottles at a certain temperature? I used Saflager yeast in the brew and so fermented at around 14deg... The beer was fairly clear when I bottled it, but not as clear as it probably could have been. I've got...

Just bought me a teabag of Fuggles hops for my English Bitter... My only experience with teabag hops was my first ever brew where I used Hallertau hops in a Grolsch style lager. As this was my first brew, it turned out pretty average. I followed the instructions that said to boil the hops and...

Evenin' squires. Bought a can of Coopers English Bitter and Coopers Brew Enhancer 1 and a jar of molasses to make the Smooth English Bitter recipe that they have on the Coopers website (Coopers English Bitter + BE 1 + 200g molasses)... I was just wondering if I should buy some hops to add to the...

I'm a big fan of Coopers 2009 Vintage Ale, I think (next to their Stout) it's the best brew they have on the market... yes, I like it more than Pale Ale! My friend and fellow Coopers beer enthusiast bought me the Brewcraft Coopers Vintage Ale recipe kit which consisted of Muntons Barley Wine +...

I made a cider a couple of weeks ago using Black Rock cider + 300g lactose + 500g dextrose + 2L fresh homemade Granny Smith apple juice at 20L total vol. The OG was 1.045 and the FG now is 1.011 and has been sitting on that for the last few days. When I tasted a sample about a week ago, when the...

I made a Heineken style lager on the 10th of May and had it fermenting in my brew fridge at around 14 deg using frozen water bottles and a wet towel inside the turned off fridge. The OG was 1.045 and the airlock had been bubbling constantly for the past 10 or so days. I did a hydrometer reading...

I've had no troubles brewing ales before as I started brewing around christmas this year so it has been warm enough for the yeast. I brew in my underground cellar which stays at a constant 21 - 22 degrees C. Now it's just hitting winter it's at around 18 degrees C, which is undesirable for...

I'm making a cider for my sister for her 23rd birthday (at the end of September). I don't drink cider because to me it just tastes like champagne, and I don't do wine... All I know is she likes any cider, but to put any names to what kind she likes, all she said was that she remembers having a...

Looking into brewing a Jaffa stout (choc orange flavoured stout) but unsure what exactly to use and how much. I'm only a kit/extract brewer, so just need to know what kit to buy and what extras to put in... Would an oatmeal stout work better for this? Or a guinness-type stout? Also, on top of a...

I just put on a brew of Heineken style lager (the Brewcraft concoction) in my 25L fermenter. I have my fermenters in the cellar which is constantly at around 20deg C but for lagers it needs to drop to below 15deg C... I put a couple of ice packs around the fermenter and one on top with a wet...

I bought a case of Tooheys Old which was kept in a fridge at the bottle shop, brought it home and stuck it in my beer fridge. I later thought to store it in my cellar, with all of my other beers, so a couple of weeks later I removed it from the fridge and put it in the cellar where it stays at...

I've read on the net (Coopers site) that it is actually impossible to make non-alcoholic beer because of the natural conditioning methods used. I'm aware that bottle conditioning adds about 0.05% ABV alcohol to your beer... So does this mean than it's impossible to make a non-alcoholic ginger...

I am about to test my new found fermenter that I aquired from a friend who left a Tooheys brew in there for several months, giving up after it started to smell like vomit. I'm currently in the process of getting the wine smell out of it using pink stain sterilizer... I decided to christen the...