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Hi guys, I just picked up 2kg of frozen ALDI raspberries and plan to brew a raspberry wheat with ingredients I have on hand. My goal is to showcase the raspberries while remaining light and refreshing for friends and family. I'm thinking: -2.2KG Maris Otter or Pilsner (mash at 65˚C) -2.2KG...

Has anyone been to Boston before? I’m headed to Boston for business in Feb and plan on staying back a day or two to check out their brewing scene. I’ll drop by Harpoon and Sam Adams but are there any other cool craft beer pubs or tap houses I should put on my list?

Finally, a hackable STC1000 with WiFi and a sweet OLED display to boot! I'm creating this discussion thread so we can chat about this upcoming innovation (without flooding the Matho's controller thread) and perhaps have some input into its development. FTR I have no affiliation with the...

Hey guys, I'm having a go at creating a poll coz I'd like to know how popular kegging is amongst us Australian home brewers for a mock speech/presentation I'm making about home brewing this week. Usually at my brew club meet ups kegs, kegerators and keezers are commonplace but I wonder if this...

A few months ago I had 2 great brews on tap. Naturally, one of them blew dry while I was entertaining guests - “Sorry guys, it’s just the porter now”. Straight afterwards what do you know? The porter blew dry as well. This happens to me a lot and it seems like kegs always abide by Murphy's law...

Tonight I removed a gas hose from one of my corny kegs and noticed the post hadn't been screwed down tightly. I haven't lost all my CO2 this time, but I have wasted a lot of CO2 in the past with other leaks. Sometimes when I store a keg I find it flat a few weeks later because the poppets...

So I've heard it everywhere - recipe guides, forum posts, brewing texts... "only use the best quality ingredients you can source" What does this actually mean? Are they stating the obvious - that you should avoid that bag of hops you found behind the fridge and your left over grain from bulk...

So this has me stumped. I’ve been brewing for about 8 years. I started with Coopers kits and I could never get them to taste even remotely good. It’s a miracle that I persevered with brewing after so much disappointment but thankfully when I moved to extracts (and all grain soon after) my beers...

I've always had mixed results hitting mash temperatures on my 3V setup. I suspected there might be some "thermal stratification" going on inside my hot liquor tank and that the convective currents from my heater weren't enough to heat the water evenly. I googled around and there was a lot of...

I've seen this style of glass a few times at commercial venues: I don't remember what I drank from it, but I imagine it would be great for an AIPA or red ale, maybe even a wheat beer? All my google image searches are coming up with no matches. So can anyone tell me what style of glass this...

Hi Guys, Just a quick intro to a project I've been working on-and-off (mostly off :)) for far too long. It's called BrewMonitor and the idea is pretty simple - to hook up a recording device to your fermenter and record temperature and airlock activity. That way you can easily answer questions...

Hey guys, I'd like to embed an iFrame in one of my posts to show a live chart of a starter's temperature that I'm logging. E.g. <iframe width="450" height="260" style="border: 1px solid #cccccc;"...

I had a Quiet Deeds Lamington Ale a few weeks ago and it struck me as something that my non-beery friends could really appreciate over winter if I put one on tap. I wasn't sure what kind of base beer to start with, but I ended up going with a Northern English brown because I though that the...

I'm not sure if anyone's tried this before so I thought I'd share and be social :) Background: I think it would be awesome if your stir plate could display how your yeast population is growing. Sure you can tell if fermentation is active from the krausen and tiny bubbles swirling around in...

Hi guys, I'd like to construct some cleaning apparautus for my keg fridge. Basically I want to have a jar that I can fill with cleaner or sanitiser, pressurise and connect to my keg fridge to clean out the lines. Essentially I'd like to construct a 1 liter "mini" corny keg. The troble is...

Hey guys, I'm heading to Vanuatu for a holiday and rather than stocking up on spirits and overpriced bubbly vinegar, I was wondering if there's a way you can buy duty free beer to take overseas? They don't seem to sell beer in the airport's duty-free stores, but can you buy it online and...

Hey guys, I was lucky enough to get in on one of the stirplate bulk buys from America last year which got me inspired to try and develop an Australian version (without all the postage fees). I have constructed a few of my own designs, but I haven't got any feedback yet so if anyone would be...