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Well, ATM I store all my longnecks in milk crates. They are OK, but take up a fair bit of room compared to a conventional case. Also I often take beers with my places and its hard taking them in milkcrates as they can rattle around a fair bit making them a bit fizzy. So I was wondering if...

Well most of my beers lack good head retention. When I pour them I get a great head, although it is not that "thick". And it fairly quickly dies down. But I do get bubbles rising from the bottom of the glass. How can I increase head retention?

Well I was in my local Country Brewer amd was asking about porters. I noticed they have recently released these new "wet-paks" , which is deemed full malt extract brewing. After much deliberation I bought one for $27. Inside is what I guess is about a 2l bottle filled with the malt extract...

I am doing just a Blackrock Lager using a proper lager yeast. It has been fermenting at about 13c for coming up to a week. Should I rack it into my secondary now? And any tips for a first time racker?

Well I'm going to go and buy another fermenter and associated goodies from my home brew store tommorow. Now I'm just wondering about the basics of 2 stage fermenting. Do you do it with every beer? When do you do it? How do you do it? Why should I do it? Also any bulk priming tips people? I'm...

Hi All, after aquiring some more bottles it's time for more brewing. :chug: I want to attempt a Porter. Well actually what I want to attempt is... There is a beer called the Old Admiral at the Lord Nelson in Sydney. I'd like to try and copy it. I don't have much info except that it was a dark...

Now I am new to brewing, having only but down 7 kits so far. I'm after some advice on how to brew. I'll go through my current technique. Before I begin I steralise everything. So far I have had no problem with infections. Ok then I let my can sit in hot water for 15 mins to soften up. This is...

Hi All, My latest brew is listed in my signature. Pretty much I used a bit of malt in it, as well as some strawberries. These are the 2 factors I assume will effect final gravity. The guy at my brew store reckons without the strawberries it should finish aboout 1010sg. Now it has been in the...

Well my mum likes to go out to markets and the like. She normally comes home with crap, but on the weekend, she came back with the bottle of all home brew bottles! Behold. It's the one in the middle. 1.5l swingtop. It is much bigger than the picture indicates. It's wider than a normal 1l...

Well I guess you could call this a pub review. Well anyway on Saturday night I started a pub crawl at Lord Nelsons at the Rocks. It is all the way up the end of Argyle St. It's an oldish style pub, I only stayed on the bottom floor. Not THAT much seating but wooden floors and good ambience...