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Hi everyone. Given that temps are on the rise I figure my next few brews are going to be saisons. I plan my brews in sets of 3 to make use of the yeast so I'm thinking: - Something traditional ie Dupont (lots of recipes around) - A 'New world' saison with lots of US hops (probably depends on...

Hey all putting down a fairly high og brew this weekend, recipe loosely based on a rochefort 10 recipe i found somewhere. The dates idea was floating around ahb a little while ago. Anyway I'm going with 1214 for yeast (fresh smackpack), however i also have a 1 ltr starter of 1388 from a rather...

Hi everyone - just in the early stages of putting together a recipe for a lambic or something along those lines. This will be my first brew using bugs and I will probably go the route of using one of the belgian yeasts for the primary ferment and then either use some orval dregs or one of the...

Hey all just wanted to get some advice on a basic AG Setup. I've been looking into an eski conversion type deal and I came across the ESB pre-made mash tun http://www.esbeer.com.au/category38_1.htm. Just wondering if anyone's used this because there's not much info on the site. Alternatively if...

Hey all - just broke my liquid yeast cherry. Picked up a Forbidden fruits smackpack and have started farming it. Basically have boiled up some malt extract and pitched the yeast into a couple of sanitised 2ltr coke bottles with gladwrap around the top. My plan is to split it up into a couple of...

Hey all just putting together an extract recipe based (loosely) on Tony's LCBA recipe in the database (http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/index.php?autocom=recipedb&code=show&recipe=301) but I've substituted the hops for what I've got on hand. 2x Coopers Light LME Tins (3kg) 500g Carapils...

Hey all - I've been doing some research on making a yeast starter (liquid yeast is one of the things next on my list to move up to). For the moment I've still got quite a few packets of dried yeast from my last Craftbrewer order. I understand that liquid yeast requires a yeast starter because...

Hey all just got a question which is almost too embarrasing to ask but I figure if I can get my head around everything then surely that is the key to making better beer. I've just purchased another fermenter to act as a secondary and have a beer racked into it at the moment. It was in primary...

Hey all - had a browse through the brewing section of Coles the other day to check out this big clearance I've been hearing about. They didn't really have much other deals but tins of Coopers Ginger Ale and (I think) Brigalow Cider were half price at about $5 each. i figure I'll put the ginger...

hi all - just did my first extract brew recently: 1.5kg amber LME 1.5 kg pale DME 150g crystal 45g goldings @ 60 mins 12g fuggles @ 15 mins s04 yeast 23 ltr batch total in about 15 ltr boil i have just now realised that the wort should be @ 1040 during the hop boiling period (read through a few...

Hey all I've recently decided that the English-style ales are my personal favourite. I mean, I like all beer really but we've been hitting up the British pubs recently and I've been venturing into the more wacko section of the bottleshop and discovered this stuff really is the shit in my...

Hi guys, I've got some hard lemonade bubbling away at the moment. I've had a read through the posts so far and it seems like the main issue people have had is it being too bitter (i know there's a really long post somewhere) - it smells pretty good through the airlock so far, and i was careful...

Hi everyone, i'm a new brewer but it's always been something i've been keen on doing and i can see this becoming a bit of an obsession. So far I've just done one brew which was the Cooper's stout kit, but then after doing a bit of research, especially this forum, I found that the 'Kit and kilo'...