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Hey all, Just wondering if anyone knows any good Australian online suppliers for ingredients? Finding time to get to my LHBS is limited by Uni and as a student running on a very tight budget the costs there are... *shrug* a little higher than I'd like. Example: LHBS sells capper for $65.00 Ebay...

My sanitation depends on the brew; Beers EVERYTHING gets the bleach treatment. Bottles, spoons, taps... everything. But I never boiled my extracts (including the extra extracts I added to the no-boil-necessary) until I started a no-kit recipe. My meads however get comparatively less attention-...

Bugger the negative nellies on this one andy, I say go for it! Think of it from another angle people. A secure compound out in the desert... high walls... just pretend it IS a prison camp.... make a game out of sneaking ingredients past the missus... *shrug* I am a perverse individual. As far...

Why the hating on the S-04? It seems pretty widely popular...

Hey all, I've been brewing for about two years now (with a break. Stupid moving house), and am settling into a serious production line now... I bottled a dark ale today, and having got that behind me, I feel it's time to make the jump away from pre-hopped kit + kilo, and go for my own extract...

Hey all, Finally got my brewing kit out after my move a year ago, cleaned up and making some christmas mead! It's good to be back playing with booze... Anyways in my parusing of my supplies I found, sitting in the back of my fridge, some yeasts. Some S04 and a sachet from a kit of morgans to...

Ok guys, the mead got racked today... fermentation is stopped or very nearly there... all that's left to do is let it clear. I read some reports of using bentonite to clear wines, beers and meads and was quite intruiged, not least of all as I'm a bit worried about the problem with oxidation...

Sorry for the late reply - it went down wonderfully! I just racked My second and Third batches today actually :)

The honey makes the price a little bit more, but your return is still a lot cheaper than the (quite limited) store available meads... I spent 30 bucks each on my 5 litre batches (not including equipment). Love the reward of a tasty mead though!

So after the resounding sucess of my last mead (4 bottles left -2 for dad for chrissy, 1 to share for chrissy, 1 to show gf's family for chrissy), I decided to put down 2 more this weekend and establish a special christmas reserve of a bottle or two from each not to be opened until next...

Wow... can you believe I forgot to take an OG reading? Such a silly mistake.... What I reckon I'll do is take a poke in a month and see how she's going, and work it from there, be it work in an ice bucket treatment or leave it be and just bottle it 2 weeks before chrissy perhaps...? Or bottle...

So here it is folks, My First Mead! It's a little basic recipe culminated from a few places.... ingredients are as follows: 2kg Yellowbox Honey 1 cinnamon stick a pinch nutmeg 1 whole orange, in 8 pieces some yeast nutrient White wine yeast (15.5% ABV resistance, packet says it's good at...