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Dude, it was 5 years ago! I can barely remember last week. I think I took some tasting notes way back then, so as soon I find my old brew log, I'll let you know. I can tell you that this was a very malty beer with a moderate bitterness and a hint of passionfruit...but just a hint, mind you...

*Patience (sorry, can't esit on the mobile version).

Clearing out our storage locker, and I just discovered a bottle of beer we brewed 5 years ago. Popped the lid and no fizz, but the taste and the smell is pretty awesome. I whacked it in the sodastream to give it a bit of fizz and damn! I'm impressed! I just need to go back through my records...

I've been watching the BIAB boom over the years. I see you can now buy all in one electrical systems that just blow my mind! Like this monstrosity...I want one!

Hi all, Well, after a 5 year hiatus I'm back - I'm surprised I remembered my log in details! I pulled the old fermenters out of the storage locker last weekend and threw in a can of Coopers just for the hell of it. It's good to hear the old 'bloop bloop' again after such a long time. One...

Best advice I can give is whatever you buy, make sure you get one that spits the pulp out and not one that "captures" it. I once did about 20kg of pears and had to stop every 7th or 8th pear to empty the bloody thing. Took for ever and it was NOT fun! AND to top it all off, the bloody batch got...

By the way, dunno if anyone's mentioned this, but you're a legend for organizing all this! Thanks!

Sorry, that wasn't clear was it. Here's an example with a wine glass (picture = 1000 words etc):

The idea is to make the hole wider so that you fit bigger things in, like gurkins and beetroot etc. I guess you could bottle your jams, as long as you made them runny enough. A bit hard to get the old knife down the neck of the bottle otherwise. We do bottle our tomato sauces though. Cheers, Brad

G'day all, While I was visiting the parental units the other weekend, I managed to coerce to my old man into remeniscing about his childhood. Growing up in the bush, the youngest of 10, he has some fantastic stories of "making do". Any way, short story long, the topic of preserving food came...

I'll settle for a bottle of caseros tequila if that's the case.

Bear Grylls is famous of drinking his own "yellow liquid", I wonder if he's considered chilling it.

I'm giving it a go right now. I'm only doing a small bed (10m2) just as an experiment, but the biggest lesson I've learnt so far is; beware the birds! They ate about 10-20% of my crop before it even had a chance to germinate. My advice; either sew more to account for the loss or somehow...

I thought mine of 8 years was gettin' on, 25 is bloody impressive!

These little babies (POR) popped up three weeks ago. But after reading through this thread, I now have hop envy!

I'm currently experimenting with storing mine under the house. From the few tests I've done there doesn't appear to be too big of a fluctuation in temp, plus we had a 32 degree day here yesterday and under the house stayed nice and cool. Or as Father Jack suggested, you could dig a celler -...

Looks like no one has tried this, but it sure sounds interesting. If I were to give it a go, I'd be inclined make a lager in the usual fashion and then just to dump a load of dried apple into the fermenter along with everything else. But that's based entirely on a "what's this button do?"...

Forgive me if this is a stupid noob question or if it's been covered earlier in the thread; but how does the actual buy/pickup work? Do we all simply rock up to G&G on the 10th and claim our bags? Is there a secret AHB handshake that we need to perform to prove it's us? What happens? Cheers, Brad

1. Manticle: several bags of grain 2. Pennywise: Couple of bags & dependant on date as I may be away 3. Lecterfan - at least one bag of base malt and probably a bag o'wheat (or 2 base malts) 4. Maple - 3 base ish, maybe a spec or 2 as well 5. Mxd - (may need somene to pick up for me) 6. Quintrex...

Not just the Chinese. Halal and Kosher practices are pretty damn barbaric as well. Regardless of if the animal is sentient or not, feels pain or not, on the off chance that it is/does, at least give it a quick and hopefully painless death before you start cutting into it or tearing bits off it...