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G'day all, I've recently setup a recirculating biab and am wondering if anyone can advise me where to take the temp from, should I be reading the grain bed temp or the water temp in the urn?

G'day all, I'm currently playing around with a few ideas on how to improve my current biab method and am wondering if anyone knows if there's a plug and play pid controller available to suit this application? Cheers.

G'day all, Just wondering if anyone has a Guinness Draught recipe for BIAB that's pretty dam close to the real thing? Cheers, Falcon250,

G'day all, I'm currently using a Corona grain mill and am wondering if the other mills available produce better results, any comments always greatly appreciated! Cheers, angry6.

G'day All, I've recently acquired some nice light flavoured honey and would like to make a honey wheat style ale with my own hops, here's the recipe: 250g Maris Otter Pale @ 5.9 ebc 500g Weyerman Carared @ 40 ebc 750g JWM Pils malt @ 3.2 ebc 1 KG JWM Wheat @...

G'day All, I have recently started using the biab method and am finding that my efficiency is around 60 %, are there any tips or suggestions that others can give to try and increase efficiency?. My gear consists of: 40 lt Crown urn with concealed element 12" False bottom (to keep bag off the...

G'day all, What would be the best dry hopping times for galaxy and cascade hops? I recently did a Stone & Wood Pacific Ale clone dry hopped with Galaxy pellets and it came out very bitter, can extra bitterness be gained from about 8 days dry hopping? Has anyone got a table or guide...

G'day all, I have had a few issues with lager tasting sour, does anyone know the possible cause of this? Cheers.

Gday all, I've recently done a few lagers using s23 and am just wondering what would be the optimal lagering time for it, beer is lagering in a fridge at approx 2-3C, it'll be going into a corny keg when ready. cheers!

G'day All, I have put this recipe together with beersmith and am just wondering what else I can do with it, it consists of: 9 litre brew for corny keg 1 KG Light dry extract 300 G Dextrose 10G Galaxy for 60 mins 10G Galaxy for 15 mins 5G Galaxy for 5 mins Dry hop with Pacific jade for 5 days...

G'day all, Just about to take the step to corny kegs from bottling finally and am wondering how natural carbonation in the corny will go. I have to carb in the keg because I can't afford a forced carb setup yet. I am only doing 9 litre brews at this stage as I don't drink that much, I just love...

G'day all, I'm currently considering buying a relatively cheap cornelius keg setup because I'm over bottling, has anyone one had experience with this setup? Any help and opinions always greatly appreciated! Cheers!

G'day All, Tried a beer a while back called Fraoch Heather Ale made in Scotland by the Williams brothers brewery and would like to try and make something similar (full mash) would anyone happen to know where I could get heather tips and bog myrtle from? Cheers, Tone.

G'day All, Have an Aussie style Lager fermenting for about 17 days now original gravity was 1042 over the last few days have been testing gravity and it won't go lower than 1016, re hydrated 1pkt saflager s23 was this enough yeast? Any help is greatly appreciated!. Cheers and beers, Tone.

G'day All, Just about to do an Aussie style premium lager and am just wondering how these hops will go, Malts used will be Joe White export pilsener malt and a touch dark Munich, Hops I'm considering Bittering: Pride of ringwood (16 ibu's), Hallertau (4 ibu's) and just before end of boil about...

G'day All, Just after some recipe advice in regards to making a Californian steam beer, purchased Beersmith the other day and now all I want to do is make beer! Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated! Cheers.

G'day All, Have just made a summer style ale using 95% pale malt, 5% vienna malt, Citra @ 22 IBU's & Nelson Sauvin @ 8 IbU's. Lord Raja Goomba I gave me some great help a few weeks back in relation to this recipe, I am now faced with what to dry hop with?, and how much? ( Standard 22L...

G'day all, I recently remembered that I have a packet of citra hop pellets in the fridge that need to be used, would like to try and create an easy drinking summer style ale, any ideas?

G'day all, I recently bought a packet of Saflager s 33 yeast from my local hbs in Hobart and after doing a little research I discovered that this strain is actually ale yeast and not lager yeast, can anyone shed further light on this as I wish to Lager this beer for about 4-5 weeks but am...