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Been doing ginger beer batches over the summer using a home made plant from organic raisens. I haven't treated the plant brilliantly well, occasionally only topping up after a week or so. Since my last batch a couple of weeks back have noticed the plant not "taking up" any top ups and the...

wort!!!!! Was debating whether to post this one knowing I'll be offering this beer to a few on this forum. But the exhibitionist has got the better of me. Was putting together my first crack at a rice brew Sat. night, boil is up, we're about an hour in..... hmmm what is that floating around in...

Question for Westaustralians. I'm not a big follower of the Stock Market but my brother is and he just forwarded this to me. Gage Roads has tripled it's price in the last 3 weeks. http://investing.businessweek.com/research....asp?ric=GRB.AX They issued a pretty positive but not outrageously...

I'm just going out to do some weeding she says............. you can guess the rest NOT HAPPY, It's MY part of the garden, she knows damn well not to go in there, but do you think she remembers noooooooo. "It looked like a weed". It was a brand newie, supplied by my good mate barls and was had...

Had an oldish WLP002 in the fridge and are trying to start it up to do a Smoked Porter. Depending on the size of the yeast that I throw in the starter I tend to start it off small, in this case around 500ml before going to the full starter volume in the next step. My suspicions were raised...

Hello kids, Was thinking of doing at least a 1 nighter maybe two at one of these major events in the coming months. Any interest or existing plans to go to either to co-ordinate transport & accomodation??? I think I should be able to get a leave pass to one (both would be pushing it), and SWMBO...

My keg freezer has slowly been warming up for the last 3 or so months, suspect a gas leak or something. The poor compressors been running flat chat for a while (hate to think what the elec. bill is going to be). It's an ancient old box so time to give it the heave ho. Been doing the rounds of...

Stumbled across this looking at a totally unrelated something else today. http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/i...amp;job_id=2574 Something to look out for you SW Sydneysiders. Might be able to sneak a few bags out the back door. Also looking at that Project Applicn - Only 20 full time...

Long overdue brewday posting.............. Day : I'd put aside Sunday 14th of June thinking I'd get this post up a couple of weeks back, we're still a good two and a half weeks out from this date. I'd spoken with croz and Stu and they said it should suit them so unless there is a lot of...

My good friends. I've been using stir plated starters for all my brews for a while and by and large they've worked OK but I'm occasionally getting ferment issues. Thing is I very rarely get what I think are strong ferments in the starter and although the starter wort ferments out I suspect I'm...

I've got another rotten egg special going on. I've done around 8 lager brews across the last year and half and I reckon about 3 of those have thrown a massive (and I mean MASSIVE) amount of sulphur, that due to the sheer volume I haven't been able to get rid of through lagering. Latest brew is...

One for the brewers with littlies. A fair whack of you would have seen these ads, strategically placed in prime time, often during family programming times designed to have maximum effect when families are watching http://www.drinkwise.com.au/menu2/DrinkWis...69/Default.aspx Has it had any...

I think a hearty congratulations to ISB's first National Champion, well done Mike. We await plenty of samples in a couple of weeks and full brew details........

This sort of thing has got me in two minds http://www.news.com.au/gallery/0,23607,503...5007150,00.html One says that anything getting mainstream publicity for something different like a Hoe or Leffe is a good thing. The other tells it like it is, the "nine step ritual" comes straight from...

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Just installed a web filter on my home PC with my 10 year old proving particularly inquisitive in his journeys on the web. It blocks AHB : "The webpage you are trying to access contains restricted material (Dating) and is therefore blocked by Parental Control." :lol: :lol:

Well I AG'ed up my NSW Xmas Case Swap offering, a Nthn English Brown. All looked good, slightly higher OG than expected (1051) but no biggy, no chilled. Cultered up my yeast, Irish Ale, something a bit different, 2 litre starter, chilled it down, poured off the "beer", up to room temp and...

Not sure where to post this one but thought this is prolly the best place. My kegging setup is as follows : 4 kegs in a freezer with a bucket of water and a pond pump in there as well. All the lines and flooded font lines pop out a hole in the side of the freezer through an insulated tube...

Anybody seen anything like this before. I've had caustic sitting in these lines for a couple of days. Came back this evening to see this : Not the best pics but you should get the idea. This has happened to two of my discos. Looks like the caustic has weakened the plastic in the discos and...

Hi all, I've been doing my stir plate starters at whatever room temps are around when I get them together. Have a lager starter going at the moment and just stuck my nose in it last night and got a fist full of esters, no surprise given room temps around 20 odd degrees. A while back I might've...