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Hi All, Off to Brissy this weekend for a family event. Ideally, I'd love to take my own brews, but since I am doing "carry on only", I will have to buy up there. Looking for a shop somewhere near Chermside, Albany Creek, Arana Hills areas. I have a GPS but am no expert on Brisbane suburbs...

Hi All, Probably not your standard question... but here goes. How do you rapidly unfreeze a fermenter ? I went down to the brewery tonight to filter and keg a brew and on getting it out of the fridge, found that the whole shebang was a beerscicle. Yes I can leave it over night, but I need to...

Hi All Are there any hard and fast rules on pitching a new brew into a fermenter after kegging it's previous inhabitant ? I have an ESB that I am about to keg and a fresh IPA in a cube to drop in the fermenter. Yeast is a SAF-04. Are there any rules I should observe about pitching a fresh...

Hi All, The other day I brewed up an Amber Ale hopped with Galaxy and Amarillo. Hop wise it seems fine, if a little too hoppy initially. This is now fading from a massive roar to loud party. Problem is, the mouthfeel is a bit thin and the ale is just a bit watery. Somehow I managed to screw...

I was rummaging through my grain supplies on the weekend looking for my Irish Moss tabs (yep... found em thanks). I kept coming across little bags of specialty grains (mainly crystal malts of differing colour) in quantities ranging from ~50g to probably 300g and anything in between. My...

Hi All, Just tasted my hydrometer sample and found a very hoppy brew that was a tad on the watery side. OG was 1052 and current gravity is at 1006. Style is a USPA. I pose the following question to the enlightened minds in this forum: Is it worth trying to find something in the grain bucket...

Apoligies in advance if this has been asked and answered but I have not been able to find it on here or in BIAB.info Is there a specific reason for using nylon for BIAB ? Just curious because I have gone the other way and gone for "all natural cotton" for everything. Duck

Hi All, In great expectation of getting my new burner today/tomorrow I have a strong urge to brew on Sat. I was planning on doing a Pils while it is still quite cool and planned on using D Saaz for this. Unfortunately my piss poor organisational skills have kicked in and I did not order from...

Hi All, I have about a 30-45 minute drive to/from work each day and spend most of that listening to the radio. My current station has been advertising the "Cenovis ChillPill" about every 5 minutes which annoyingly seems to have implanted itself into my brain. So while browsing the web last...

Hi All, I have a North English Brown fermenting right now... this is day 3 of the ferment. My gravity sample shows the NE Brown to be more like a NE Gold :-( Anyone think of any reasons why you would NOT steep some more Choccy malt and or some Dark Crystal 220 EBC to try for a more "ruby...

Hi All, If there are no signs of ferment after 4 days can my yeast be declared clinically dead ? The yeast was shipped down to Vic from Craft Brewer in QLD and still felt cool (had 2 techni-ice pack wrapped around the yeast, then bubblewrapped). I re-hydrated the yeast a good 3 hours before...

Hi All, I think my brew needs a medic !! Brew is a CDA (Cascadian Dark Ale) which is basically a US Style IPA with some dark malts in the mix for colour. This is a hoppy beer. It's supposed to be that way, BUT I am getting some kind of weird chemically taste in the brew that wasn't there...