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Hey Guys, The next meeting of the Geelong Craft Brewers will be held on the evening of Friday March 31 in Highton. This is a competition night with the style of the evening being Rye IPA Bring around a few of your tasty craft beverages and $5 donation for a feed. Anyone interesting in...

HI all, I have always been a no-chiller, but recently came into possession of an immersion chiller and am interested in giving it a go to see if I can notice any improvement/change in my beer. From what Ive read, these work best if stirring the wort or moving the chiller whilst chilling – I...

Our family runs a kris kringle at Xmas, with each person receiving a gift up to the value of $100 - gift cards arent allowed!. I have been asked what I want and I would like suggestions of a useful bit of gear that I might find handy in the brewery. last year I got a keg, but I have plenty now...

Flying to Perth tomorow and was thinking of packing some beers for a mate. Do longnecks travel ok in the cargo hold? I was wondering if the pressure differential might lead to bottle bombs or leaking caps?. I assume it will be ok as a mate recently brought back some beers from O/seas, but just...

Hi folks, just wanted to let you know about Geelong's newest (and oldest) brew club....The Geelong Craft Brewers was recently established, comprising members of the Corio Bay Brewers which has operated in the Geelong region for many years. The birth of the new club has been driven by a desire...

It was heartbreaking, but done as a kindness. It was not pleasant! A Saison brewed using Belle Saison at ambients, during which the temps got up in to the high 30s...was in primary for three weeks and tasted funky and 'saisonesque' at warmer temps...when chilled,kegged carbonated, all I could...

Ive done a bit of reading through various threads and it appears the consensus for using vanilla beans is to scrape the seeds from a couple of beans and add them into secondary…some people even advocate chucking the bean pod-casings in there as well. Im keen to give this a go (choc-vanilla...

Hi all, GABF is on tomorrow and it appears there will be a few of us in attendance, I propose that anyone interested in saying G'day to some fellow AHBers should meet at the Homebrewing section (see bottle icon here ) at 1:30pm. This timeslot falls beteween the 'meet the brewers' and...

Did a worknight brew last night and let it cool in the kettle as I was to be pitching this morning and couldnt be stuffed cubing it when sleep beckoned. This morning about halfway through transferring to fermentor I happened to touch the keggle and was suprised how warm it still was ...took a...

Found out today that my STC1000 temp probe had come unstuck and somehow came to be outside the fermenting fridge :blink: ...so with a few cool days and nights, my heat belt has been cranking away 24 hrs a day for the last week...dunno what the temp was in the fermenter as I didnt think to take a...

Hi all, looking through the recipe DB last Friday I got inspired by the use of cooked rice in lagers...couldnt wait to try it and cooked a kilo of rice saturday morning which I mashed (BIAB) with the last of my Maris Otter (1.6kg) and 2.4kg of a mixed malt - (I have a sack of dubious origin...

Hi, trying my hand at a Kolsch for the first time...pitched a 1L starter of Wyeast 2565 last Sunday and it took off within 6 hours...got a massive foaming Krausen puching up under the glad wrap. Checked it yesterday and it hasnt settled down at all...thick creamy gooey krausen still about 2-3...

Hi, just bought a couple of kegs which come with plastic flipper tabs to operate the prv. The seals on them are majorly compressed/deformed and I want to get new O'rings. They werent included in the seal kit that came with the kegs. Anyone know where to source o'rings for these...

Hi all, Im keen to try a BIAB step mash using hot water additions. Ive tried it once before by ramping the mash temp whilst slightly raising the bag, but I found that it took 15-20 minutes to get from 50C up to 66C and was difficult to accurately hit my final mash temp, as the bag was partially...

Hi all, Ive been given some OLD firestone kegs that have male thread on the posts that screw into a female post seat on the body of the keg. below is a pic of a similar (same?) unit I found using google. But I cant find any info on parts (poppet valves, seals and o-rings etc)...Anyone have any...

just stumbled across this http://www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/interns-2007/dodonaea-viscosa.html anyone know more about this or ever tried brewing with it?

I use a craftbrewer BIAB bag which I have done about 15 brews with. The last four brews have been particularly troublesome to drain, with many litres of wort pooling above the grain and taking ages to drain :angry: ...with a bit of twisting and squeezing I can make a lot of mess but get it...

My fermentation process is pretty basic...two weeks in primary @18C (often dry hopping at around one week), bottle and leave for two weeks..drink! :chug: If I were to add another week into the process, would I get a better final result from adding steps like racking to secondary/finings/cold...

Pretty simple question. I have recently started using salts for simple water chemistry adjustments and am now looking to get some ph test strips. At what point in the process do I use them?...I figure straight after dough in would be best so I can make final adjustments asap and have grains...

Hi all, I was just reading a different thread about washing machines here and it got me thinking about the pro's and con's of using the hot water system water for brewing. I have done it in the past...just giving the water out of the hot tap a short blast with the burner to get it up to strike...