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G'day fellow brewers. I am having a bit of trouble finding any decent sour/funky beers with living yeast and bacteria. I am in Adelaide. I'm currently aging a beer brewed with dregs from a crooked stave, jester king and trois dames collaboration of sorts, Sin Frontera. The beer was fantastic and...

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I just use a standard bar fridge. Picked it up for next to nothing. I had to bend the freezer out and pin it to the back walls to fit 2 cornies. I use a fridge mate to control the temps as this caused the whole fridge to become a freezer. Has been running non stop for over 10 years now. Cheers. Dez

Hi, have you guys seen the conical fermenters from fastrack? They are now called fastferment and are an awesome looking plastic conical fermenter. Im wondering if anyone here in Aus knows where to get one? Im currently trying to contact them direct and through there larger US distributors to...

In my first few BIABs I only stirred as I added the grain. On about number five I decided to stir (bunnings large paint stirrer) every couple of minutes up untill the 20 minute mark and found an instant significant gain in effiency pushing a planned 4.5% beer into a 6% beer. I jumped straight on...

Deza Happy Valley SA 5159 BIAB brewer. Plate chiller. Beer Hunter

Thanks for all the suggestions, I've decided to go with Galaxy thanks to Sunshine Brewer. Sold it with the true blue comment, makes sense to keep it all aussie. 1/2 gram per litre at 5 mins and the same into the secondary.Still open for advice on addition times though. Hopefully it's a...

Yeah I've been reading all the old posts on CPA clones, just didn't want to bump them up from 3-6 years back. Definately not goin for a clone, just something along the same lines with a bit of extra flavour and aroma at the end. I was planning on re-culturing yeast from bottles also if this...

G'day. Im planning on brewing a semi Coopers pale ale clone to have as a house ale, mainly for my mates who havent learnt to appreciate highly hopped beers yet. I would just like to get some suggetions on adding in a bit of flavour and aroma to compliment the Pride of Ringwood 60 min addition...

Yeah definately keen to brew it just waiting to get enought time off work, probably next week. Been doin my homework on water chemistry in the mean time to clarify the need for gypsum and chalk. Home brewing is one of those things where the more learn the more you find out you need to learn...

Wow, that sounds like alot of hops, but I suppose thats what would give it its character. What is the pupose of the gypsum and chalk? Is it the same as the bag of gypsum in my garden shed? What kind of chalk is it? Cheers, Dez

G'day, how'd this beer turn out. Anything you would add or change? Similar to Karma citra? Tried it the other day off tap filtered through Cascade hops on the bar, absoloutly spectacular. Keen on makin something similar. Cheers, Dez

Decided to boil up some water and put the hops into that, mashed em up with a potato masher. Then chucked em into the cube, has been in the fridge for a few days now. I had a taste and it seems good, cant wait till it's in the keg and carbonated. My first beet with home grown hops. mmm

Will putting them straight into the cube raw be too much of an infection risk? Should I boil them or something first? Any help appreciated, will be racking it tomorrow.

I didn't add the hops earlier into the brew as I didn't really know how, or how much was needed. I've added packeted finishing hops befor to the cube with good results, hopefully fresh hops will do even better. I bought the hop rhizomes over ebay just befor spring time, thats when they all...

G'day all. I'm new to this forum so go easy on me. Currently in the keg I have a Muntons mount melick irish style cream ale, which was brewed with a tin of light liquid malt and 250grams of light dried malt. I used safale s-04 yeast. It is a good beer and I'm quiet happy with it. In the...