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Hey Team, I've got a keg king kegerator that is flaking a bit on keeping cool. I turned it on last night after being off for quite some time. It was down to 13 overnight while set at 1. This evening, after a hot day, it's at 16. The compressor is too hot to touch. One of the pipes on the...

Back in November I attended the concise course at the Siebel Institute in Chicago. It was a super intense two weeks and a learnt a lot of useful information about the transition from homebrewer to commercial brewer. One key piece of information stuck out to me though, and it’s arguably a more...

I struggle to think how much DME I've used for starters over the years, but it's quite a bit. Most of it has been from craftbrewer, and this one time I bought a 25kg Bintani bag and split it with some guys. Both looked and behaved the same. Late last year I found myself without starter DME and...

Oh YES! The mighty cross continental juggernaut that is the ANHC is hitting the road again...this time to Adelaide! More info and an updated anhc.com.au to come. In the meantime, please direct any enquiries to the following: General enquiries: [email protected] Potential speaker or program...

A good opportunity to meet and chat to a bunch of pro brewers. Quite a fair bit of homebrew originated pedigree here... Have you ever wanted to start your own brewery or beer brand? Are you a keen home brewer looking for ways to improve your batches. Do you just like talking about beer? If...

So I have about 40l of mead going on at the moment in vessels of various sizes. I am a bit over a week into fermentation and degassing every few days. My understanding is the following: Degas relatively frequently during primary, especially before nutrient. Degas before racking. Degas before...

Put down a bunch of different meads last night using a big tub of honey I got. The honey was crystalised and even with a slight warming I wasn't confident in the OG readings I took last night. I did follow the honey to water ratios but my two main 15l batches seem a bit high today - I have a...

Some of you may have seen I did an experiment on simple sugar addition time and its effect on fermentability. One of the most amazing things I found was the final gravity: 1.000. This is a Belgian Golden Strong with 30% dextrose and 70% pis malt. We know Pils is not 100% fermentable, but both...

I am probably preaching to the converted here as I know that Coopers drops aren't all that popular here, but look at this flacid looking little drop that got through their QC: Pretty ridiculous. Does anyone know how these are made? I'd have thought size differences of this degree would be...

So I've decided to continue my series of not particularly scientific fermentation experiments with suggestive titles. We've all heard the suggestion that simple sugars should not be added to Belgians until the ferment is well underway. The theory is that this prevents the yeast pigging out on...

Hey All, I had a temp probe fall out of the fridge during the week and partially freeze two fermenters that were crash chilling. I estimate the egdes got to about -3 and for possibly up to 18 hours. There were ice crystals in the beer but it wasn't frozen solid. As the batch was to be largely...

I'm interested in if one can re-use a cleaning product, for example PBW or caustic. Say in the following examples: Finish cleaning your kettle within an hour or two and then running off into your yeast starter jar. Leaving a keg soaking overnight over even a couple days, then pouring the...

I suppose if better replace this frowny fella. Any idea what I might have done to get this black eye?

Heyup, I have a 500ml yeast starter of just out of date White Labs American Farmhouse blend going at the moment. I wouldn't normally start so small, but I previously had a 1.5l starter of WLP001 from the same period not start at all, so I was being cautious. So I have a decent size pitch of...

Left a hefe hydro sample out overnight. I often like to see what gets picked up. For most of the year, nothing happens unless it goes outside. This picture is the result of less than 24 hours in my kitchen, under the eave of a cupboard. We didn't taste but it smells earthy, dense dry flower...

I suppose all three ways involve cloudy protein laden liquids, but half of them also involve yeasts, and this is one of them. TL;DR version: Brewing my hefeweizen off a single mash and boil but splitting it onto three yeasts: WLP300, WB-06 and Danstar Munich. Let's see how they effect the end...

My brother generally drinks pure blonde, so the Burleigh Giraffe Coffee Lager he got for his birthday in July wasn't going to be quickly drunk. He came to his bar the other day to find this: Apparently it's in a pretty stable temperature environment and it was a mild. Has anyone had...

The pictured keg has had a spontaneously fermented cider in it for 6+ months. It was a crazy thing that made the whole thing milky white and continued to ferment even at very cool temperatures. It eventually finished and flocked out. I finished it last weekend and hosed it out before filling it...

For my last couple brews I've noticed that the last beer has a pretty obvious acetaldehyde issue. No sign of it earlier, two times now, just the last pour. The only explanation I can think of is the rapid oxidation of the keg blowing is causing some kind of rapid redox reaction?

I keep my water filter refrigerated between brews. At the moment it's in my chesty and somehow fell off the hump a little while ago, breaking the bottom floor: The freezer is still working ok, but I am wondering if I should do something about it to prevent condensation leaks and maybe keep...