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Thanks pimpsqueak and wolfy! According to Mr Malty I'll only need somewhere around 150-200ml of slurry from the fermenter, which is about what I was using before. To save this yeast I was washing it several times with chilled boiled water, and stored it at 4oC. I was getting about 3-4x 200ml...

Hi all, I have successfully cultured yeast from the sludge at the bottom of the fermenter, however I can't help but wonder if there is a better way to go (especially considering I'm using the safale 04 and the WB06 dried yeast). Has anyone successfully tried the following or a variation of it...

Just brewed this as my first all-grain attempt. Absolutely fantastic 5-star brew. It's probably written somewhere in the previous 29 pages of comments, however... to what extent are you folk carbonating at? I carbonated my bottles to the ESB english ale standard (1.3 volumes). I quite like the...

Good luck! You'll love it, there's something special about brewing a beer from grain.

Hello, It depends on how big you want the next step to be. I've gone to AG from doing extract with added hops and specialty grain. A lot of brew shops have 1.7 kg can of extract with some specialty grain that you add. The tiny amount of added specialty grain can really add some goodness to the...

Thanks folks, I'm definitely looking forward to trying a few of them. Cheers,

Dear all, I just bottled my first all grain brew. It was just a small 15 L batch, because I'm restricted with my volumes (at this stage). I didn't sparge, just squeezed the cheese... cloth. Next brew I have an esky lined up and will double batch sparge. I only got about 63% efficiency into...

I'm currently happy with BrewTarget, but I'm going to give a look at BeerAlchemy - looks like it could be good. Although, it appears to be a 30 day trail program, is it worth the 30 bucks? Next brew I'll aim for a 15 L biab brew using a "full to the brim" approach with my pot. That is 18 L at...

Cheers Keifer33, I've already gone to BIABrewer. "The Calculator" suggests that with a 19 L pot the best you can aim for is 9 L of beer at the end, and I refuse to admit that it is the best I can do. The advice that I got was to buy a 40 L pot and do a MAXI-BIAB to achieve a 23 L batch. I'm...

Cheers Keifer33, I've already gone to BIABrewer. "The Calculator" suggests that with a 19 L pot the best you can aim for is 9 L of beer at the end, and I refuse to admit that it is the best I can do. The advice that I got was to buy a 40 L pot and do a MAXI-BIAB to achieve a 23 L batch. I'm...

G'day, Try plugging your ingredients into the Kit Extract Beer Designer excel sheet from this site. There is a procedure that is generated from the ingredients you enter. I've tried using it too, and it works a treat. I've designed an american standard lager that I'm drinking right now...

Thanks guys, I know that 19 L is smaller than optimal and I kind of wish I had a 40 L pot, but my electric stove is unlikely to handle it. It's good to know that 2.5 L/kg figure (thanks seemax + roddersf). I'm keen to try either an 80 C mash out, or a 7.5 L mash with a 7+ L sparge on my next...

Hello All, I recently put on my first AG BIAB on an electric stove top in a 19 L pot. Milled grain in a "mill" attachment on a Kenwood kitchen appliance, which is basically a small blender with the base larger than the top (stopped milling as soon as no whole grains were present). Instead of...

Well, heading into winter it seemed like the obvious first step. I'm currently using Amarillo, which I love for American Ales. I was wandering about what to use for general bittering, thanks for the suggestion of Magnum.

It's a really good point by both of you. There's no harm in trying. Thinking about it, when buying 28 kg of LME you've committed yourself. I can very easily get the ingredients for a single batch for BIAB (plus I already have a 19 L stock pot). I'll read the stuff about sparging with this full...

Ok, didn't take notice of the BIAB comment in your reply, before I commented. Will read... thanks.

I have thought about that, and I have a mate that makes FANTASTIC all grain brews. My problem with that at least initially is setting up the equipment. I was going to move up to partials after this extract stint as I build up my equipment, then maybe go to AG.

I need some suggestions for re-stocking my brew pantry... I'm moving away from using kits, because I want to have a little more control over the recipes. I've found a shop here in adelaide (www.brewmaker.com.au) that sells stuff in bulk. My idea is that I get a good variety of ingredients to...

A friend of mine, who now works in Syney for Lion Nathan, did her PhD on chill haze proteins. They clump together to form larger complexes that you can see when cold, so I think that filtering will only work if its done when around 4oC (I think that is what they do for Carlton Cold?)...

Thanks for the help, Felten. It's just a little difficult to tell when the 'primary' is complete, which is why I wanted some technical advice on how to time the transfer into the secondary. Yes that's right, the advice that I put in this topic was from the free online material...