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  1. Silo Ted

    Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

  2. Silo Ted

    Poor Starch Conversion & Effects On Attenuation

    Always something challenging to his hobby. For tthe first time ever I have a stuck fermentation. It's at 1030, when my estimation was to be 1.017 (assuming 75%AA). As it stands today, attenuation calculated out at about 55% There is a back-story. The SHITHOUSE scientific company that I scored...
  3. Silo Ted

    Iphone Or Android

    I'm looking at upgrading my old phone mostly so I can have a music player on the go. Have looked at a few top-end Mp3 plaers (not phones) but the reviews are mixed, and honestly I don't want two devices to carry around, separate chargers etc. Ultimately what I am not interested in is all the...
  4. Silo Ted

    Transport Around Surfers?

    We're in the early, theoretical stages of considering a move to QLD. I am looking for public transport info sites relating to Surfers Paradise and inland. It looks like there are no trains near the coast, but how is the bus service around Surfers, and heading west, especially after midnight ...
  5. Silo Ted

    The Brewing Gods Have Been Unkind

    Left work a bit early today to do an evening brew, had my mrs get the strike water heating up so it was ready when I arrived, but the cheap-ass digital thermometer I use (a new one, after I dunked the last one) was reading a full 10 degrees variance on the electric HLT's alalogue thermostat...
  6. Silo Ted

    Microbrew Gusher

    Picked up a 6-pack of Australian made ESB the weekend before last, and loved it so much that the Mrs only managed to get one bottle out of it before I destroyed the rest. (yea, shit happens, baby). So when a mate of mine came over last Saturday and asked what sort of beers he should pick up, I...
  7. Silo Ted

    The Flying Scotsman

    Recently picked up the book "Brown Ale" by Ray Daniels & Jim Parker, and there's a twee little brewer's ritual that sound superb for the approaching winter season: "The origins of the following ritual are rather sketchy, but the late Russell Scherer is often credited with introducing it to the...
  8. Silo Ted

    Gmail Motion - New Technology

    http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html And for Google Docs http://www.google.com/google-d-s/promos/motion.html
  9. Silo Ted

    Acronym Help

    Just received a book today (Brown Ale by Daniels & Parker, thanks Bookdepository :)) and one of the units of measurement is BBL. As a general interest query, Anyone know what this is ? Quick calculations would estimate the volume of 1 BBL to be six times that of a five gallon batch, or approx...
  10. Silo Ted

    Mother Of Vinegar

    Looking to capture some local Acetobacter, and grow a 'mother' starter, with a view to making tasty vinegars. Anyone done it from scratch ? Or is this an aspect of microbiology that any sane brewer should not be home-labbing?
  11. Silo Ted

    Bowser Beer - Brown Ale

    More expensive than a 6-Pack of Sierra Nevada http://bowserbeer.com/beefy-brownale6pack/
  12. Silo Ted

    Help With Refractometer Reading

    Hi all, Just a quickie. Can't work out Promash, and need a conversion table for fermented wort. My OG was 1067, and the current (refrac) measure is 1040, so need to work out what this is in actual gravity. The hydro tells me it should be around 1020. Cheers Ted
  13. Silo Ted

    Brown Ale Recipe Formulation

    Starting to put some recipes together that are different from what I would usually brew, and also keeping in mind BJCP Guidelines, where previously I havent bothered. Would like to do something along the lines of a Northern English Brown Ale, as detailed below. Any feedback would be appreciated...
  14. Silo Ted

    Pitching Rate For 1.080 ?

    Put brew in the cube last weekend that's a double chocolate porter/stout, and in the process of culturing up yeast. Using Cali Ale 001 and aiming for 100ml or so of yeast before planned pitching this weekend. Any ideas if this is big enough? hoping for it to ferment out to at least 70%AA...
  15. Silo Ted

    Refrigeration Shelf Moulds - Strength?

    Looking for some feedback on how people install two fermenters into their fridge. I have one with glass shelves, so obviously they wont be used to hold fermenters. I'm tossing up whether to knock up some timber shelves to replace the glass, but concerned that the moulded plastic shelf mounts...
  16. Silo Ted

    Sensor Probe Questions

    Thinking about options to mount a sensor probe in my mash-tun, which will either be an analogue dial or hooked up to a temp controller (or both! I have a bit of pocket money to spend on the brewery right now). Wanting a right angle probe, at approx 170mm + 170mm, so mash temp can be measured...
  17. Silo Ted

    Question On Brown Sugar In Porter

    Will soon be making a mighty choc porter at around 10% alc, something designed to let age until late winter 2011 before I crack a bottle. Haven't quite formalised the recipe, but have 500g brown sugar that might make it into the mix. Can someone give me an idea of how much residual sweetness...
  18. Silo Ted

    Witch's Wit

    http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2010/10/28/...alling-boycott/
  19. Silo Ted

    Looking For Barley Wine - Sydney

    Thinking of trying my hand at a barleywine in the next few months, but before tying up the brewery for so long I would like to try some examples first, as I have never had the opportunity to taste one. The only trouble is, I have no idea where to find some. Have tried a couple of decent...
  20. Silo Ted

    370l Fridge - Free To A Good Home

    Am upgrading some whitegoods today at home and as a result I have a large fridge that is being offered to a lucky AHB member who might want to take that next step in their hobby and start controlling temps, or perhaps to use as a keg fridge. Rough details as follows: 370 litre, to take a guess...
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