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Hi all. I have a gluten 40L and cannot get my head around the water volumes. I have tried beer Smith and now Brewfather profiles that others have pulled together. They are based around roughly 2.7 to 3L per kg of grain, but I always end up with a sg before sparging that seems on target...

Looking for a nice hoppy extract IPA recipe. I've got kohatu, simcoe, summer, El Dorado, Vic secret, mosaic, magnum and a mystery hop that I accidentally ripped the label off. Also have plenty of crystal grain and us 05. I love the modus operandi sonic crush IPA and of course pirate life, so...

So, I've had an extract pale Ale in the fridge for a couple of weeks just letting the us05 do its thing at 18 degrees. Had a check today and it's 1014 but has a winey taste. My fermenter was a bit dirty when I got it out of storage but I hit it with bleach and cleaned it thoroughly and our a...

Hi all, am doing a brew this morning and the chux I used to steep my grains has split a little and i have a small number of grains in my wort. I can't get them out or strain them without possibly spilling quite a bit . Will it be ok to go through with the boil with them in it or should I really...

I'm going to be putting down a pale or bright ale in the next couple of days. Last one I put down was a stone and wood clone which cleaned me out of galaxy. I want to do another similar beer but only have centennial, cascade and Nelson sauvin left. I use a tin each of light and ultra light...

I've kegged my first brew in four years and it has been connected to gas at 200 kpa for a couple of days before I turned it down to 100. It's now 5 days later. I poured today and got a beautiful creamy head, but the rest seems flat. There were some bubbles but it doesn't taste carbonated. How...

Doing Neil's Centarillo Ale with some added crystal, but the wort took over an hour to get to the boil... Stupid big pot and small stove at new house! Is this going to affect the brew at all? A bit worried as it is my first brew in 3 years.

Other than the Coopers range which beers have the yeast in suspension in sufficient quantities to reculture? Has anyone had any success with them and if so what sort of flavours did you get?

Hi all, After a few long years in the Middle East I'm now back and have access to my kegerator again. I'd lent it to a mate who used it for about 6 months or so, then got bored etc and left it for over 2 yrs. My questions are: How best to clean lines, taps, kegs etc? Any other things I should...

Afternoon all, I'm looking to put down an American pale ale style and am looking for some recipe help. I have previously done a Fat Yakish beer which I really likes using a tin of Coopers Pale, a tin of light extract and some cascade and NS hops. I'd like to get away from using the hopped tins...

Hi all, I've got a tin of Canadian Blonde that I need to get rid of and am looking for an easy drinking recipe. I've also got a tin of LME, and a bunch of Galaxy hops. I've also got smaller amounts of centennial, cascade and Nelson Sauvin. Does anyone have any suggestions? Cheers

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/business/...0-1226145942262 not much substance to it, but good exposure for the industry.

Morning, I was in a hurry the other day and accidently picked up a SAFBrew T-58 instead of US-05 (yeah, pink vs red). Does anyone have a K&B or extract recipe that I can use this in? What sort of beer is it appropriate for? Cheers drfad and I misspelt yeast... sigh

http://lifehacker.com/5836767/homebrew-wit...mystify-alcohol My kids love helping me brew. They also know yeast is the best thing in the world because it gives me beer and pizza!

Hi all, Best Father's Day ever!! :icon_chickcheers: Got a kegger starting pack (ok, so the hints weren't that subtle) and am champing at the bit to get it into the fridge, but before I do, I have a quick question. It's an upside down fridge/freezer and I want the taps to be reasonably low...

Afternoon all, I've got a Coopers Pilsner Tin which I want to try and am looking for a recipe which will allow me to use up some other stuff laying around. I plugged the following in to Ianh's spreadsheet and it appears to fit the profile of American Pilsner nicely but want to get real...

hi all, hoping someone can help me. I put down a kit version of DSGA on the weekend and it turns out there is a very slow leak in the fermenter tap, which must be caused by my not quite putting it back together properly after cleaning it. I've turned the tap upside down so it is not much of an...

Hi all, I put down a hard lemonade on 10 March and am wondering if it is ever going to stop fermenting! Recipe was" zest and pulp from 15 large lemons boiled with 2kg raw sugar 500g lactose, 1 lime and 40g ginger. Used US05 but had to pitch a Coopers kit yeast starter after 5 days as...

Hi all, I'm looking at making a varient of the 3 dog recipe in one of the threads here and it asks for yeast nutrient which my LHBS didn't have. Can I use any old packet yeast as nutrient with the Safale I intend using for this brew? If not, is there anything else I can use? Cheers Fad

Hi all, SWMBO was nice enought to buy me cans of Coopers Wheat and wheat malt a couple of weeks ago (probably as penance for the shopping expedition!), and I'm wondering what to do with them. Does putting both in the one brew overdo the wheat side of things? Also, I've had a bit of a look...