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Headed to Coldstream Brewery last weekend for a couple of quiet one's in the sun. They have just released a Summer Pale Ale (not to be confused with their Summer Ale). The description in the Brewery says it has a combination of NZ and American Hops. Although the bloke serving didn't know, I'm...

Hi all, Just wondering if there would be any issues harvesting yeast from a beer that had some issues during fermentation. My latest one was a bit slow to start and then kind of stopped and started. Has ended up getting down from 1.056 to 1.018 now after two weeks and some manual...

Hi fellow brewers, Looking for some help with water chemistry using the EZ Water Calculator 3.0 spreadsheet. From reading some of Tony Wheeler's stuff in the articles section I understand that Melbourne water is pretty low in all of the key ions. I got the 2011 water report from City West...

Hi all, Last weekend I took my portable 9L keg setup on it's maiden voyage. It's a soda stream bottle on a single gauge reg with about 400mm gas line to the disconnect. First mistake was not installing a non-return valve. Second mistake was finishing the whole keg (I blame a lack of support...

Hi fellow brewers, After the Great Australian Beer Spectacular, I got to thinking about brewing a stout...there were so many great one's on show. Never brewed a stout before, so started the research :chug: . Brewboys Ace of Spades 4 Pines StAmbroise Outmeal Guinness Foreign Extra Nogne O...

I have found my new favourite beer...Hargreaves Hill ESB. Dry hopped with Nelson Sauvin from NZ...I love it :icon_drool2: !! And just when SWMBO was planning a trip out the yarra valley for a Saturday lunch :ph34r: .

Hi all, After drinking Two Birds Sunset Ale this week, I've been inspired to brew an American Red. It has a really nice malty backbone, medium bitterness, but awesome hop aroma (citra/cascade). Not too strong, easy drinking. Does anyone have a good all-grain American Red recipe? There doesn't...

G'day fellow brewers, I've brewed the same APA a couple of times now... Grains 4280g Maris Otter 950g Light Munich 285g Carapils 95g Wheat Hops Chinook (11.8%AA) 20g/40min Cascasde (6.2%AA) 20g/10min Citra (13.9%AA) 20g/0min (dry hop in cube) Brew length=20L, OG=1.054 BIAB+no-chill (that's...

Hi fellow brewers, I need some advice... Brewed this last weekend (recipe may or may not be relevant): BIAB APA (maxi-BIAB to be more specific, my pot is only 24L and I wanted 20L into fermenter). 4800g Simpsons Ale - Maris Otter 1000g JWM Light Munich 300g Weyermann Carahell 100g JWM Malted...

Hey all, So tonight I took the plunge and put my first every all grain BIAB on. It's a mini BIAB on the stove in my appartment. Grain Bill... 2100g Pale Ale 420g Munich 1 210g CaraAmber Starting volume was 18L hoping to end up with a 10L wort. Kept the mash at around 65% for 90mins. After...

Hey everyone, Hop HELP!! :blink: I am doing an all Amarillo APA on the stovetop this weekend. Due to my crappy electric stove, I find I can only manage around 10L for the boil. But I want to top it up to a 20L batch in the fermenter. For the fermentables i am using 3kg Light DME, and...

Hi all, I'm after some help with my first Lager. I did a boil up of 3kg of DME, some specialty grains and hops. Got it down to about 20C and pitched 2 packets of rehydrated saflager w-34/70. Put it in the beer fridge set to it's highest temp (keeps it at around 10C-12C) which I think is OK. The...