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I brewed an IPA last month, and it's fermented out and I thought it was pretty good with the amount of late hops. I hop bursted with amarillo and chinook from 30 minutes and dry hopped with around 50g of amarillo. I think the bitterness is just right, but it probably does lack a bit of late hop...

I know, I know. There are plenty of resources around on how to dry hop. I have read them and I have googled them. I've only ever dry hopped once with galaxy flowers a while ago and the results weren't worth the mess. I'm willing to give it another go, but I'm curious to see how everyone else...

The title says it all: What is the worst/dumbest stuff up you've ever made on a brew day? And what did you do to recover, if this was possible? Mine would have been the time I was brewing on the braumeister for the first time in ages. I was making a milk stout. Milled the grain bill, heated up...

Hey Guys I haven't brewed in a long time because I've been switching my spare time to other hobbies (making music instead). Considering selling my brewing gear to spend on music gear. It's the first series 20L model which I bought a few years ago for $2200 from Grain & Grape. I'd say I've done...

OK, so I haven't brewed in (at least) 12 months or so. After finally buying my first home (yay!), I'm looking to get back into it as I have a decent area to setup my bar and brewery. I just jumped on to the CraftBrewer site, and there's all these new hop varieties that I've never heard of! So...

I have about 160g of nice galaxy flowers that I am considering dry-hopping my stone & wood-inspired galaxy ale with. I normally stick to 1-2g per L when dry hopping with pellets. I'm tempted to throw the whole lot in as they smell amazing. My question is: how much is too much? Will 160g of dry...

Asking for a friend from work. Can anyone recommend any decent courses? Even a day with tasting and info would be good.

I just replaced my CO2 cylinder yesterday. Since I've put it on, I've done everything the way I've always done it. Turned the reg pressure right down, degassed the kegs, turned on the gas and (slowly) ramped up the reg to 10-12 PSI, leaving the gas on to slow carbonate a keg (one is already...

This is the discussion topic for article: Vic XMas in July 2011 - Brew Day

Let's get the ball rolling! Post your recipes. I'm at work right now, but I'll be posting mine up tonight, depending on what time I get home from BJCP course.

Hey guys Just doing a very late spring clean out. I have a couple of TV's and a desk to anyone who's interested. The TV's are a 68cm and a 30-something cm CRT screen, both in working order and with remotes. The desk is an L shape, but the L angle can be moved. It comes apart easily in three...

Anyone going tonight? I'm aiming to be there by about 5:30 Who went last night? What are your selections to try/avoid? Before any of you get on your high horse... I searched the forum and couldn't find the last topic... useless. all I got was last years one.

Hey I've got a copper element I want to give a decent clean. I've soaked it in PBW overnight before, but it didn't do a decent job at removing the calcium deoposits. I remember the guy from Five Star chemicals at ANHC saying that PBW won't do that when someone asked him at the Q&A session...

I just went to see how my last brew was going (in the keg, carbing up.. sit and wait method) The whole F**KING bottle is empty. Admittedly, its only a 2.6Kg one, but some time between last night and tonight its found a spot to seap out of and has f**ked off. It may have been the keg, but I...

I've been brewing a bit of this style lately and I think its pretty good. My latest version got a lot of positive comments from the Vic Xmas Swap. I'm still not happy because I haven't tried a commercial example. I thought Purvis had everything, but not scottish ales. I can find strong Scotch...

Just thought I'd get this one started seeing as Leigh has already knocked 4 or 5 down.

I've bought a pack of 1056 American a few weeks back and have kept it in the fridge at 2-4 degrees. I noticed the other day that it had started to swell. Could have been knocked around during transit or something Anyway, my question is: do you reckon it'd still be alright? It's still sealed and...

Hey I'm after a smallish fridge or freezer to fit a 25-30L fermenter in. Willing to pay if someone is selling. I don't want anything too big, and it doesn't even have to work 100%, just enough to plug into my temp mate and keep at fermenting temps.

So I've had my shiny new perlicks sitting there for a while and thought I'd better get off my arse and install them (only have one keg filled atm, so haven't been in a rush) Basically its just the tap, with the thread. I need something to screw them onto so that I can fix them to the font. I've...

I recently bought a kegerator with a dual font. I totally destroyed one of the provided taps (long story but I was NOT happy). So I bought a replacement tap from G&G and rigged it all up. So I'll go through the problems I'm having with each tap: Tap number 1: This is the replacement tap I...